$3 soda = criminal

Shane Denmark said:

chugh43- Easy there, Sparky... Was just a general observation. I used to be able to eat everything and anything under the sun except lettuce, too. It won’t last forever.

All good! Just wondering, do you eat the fold overs? If so, would you add anything to them?

Never had them... I will agree that CP took several big steps in the food department this year but they still have a lot of room for improvement. The food trucks are a great addition. I’d like to see them more during the summer.

All I need from Cedar Point food wise is Chili Cheese Fries from the Happy Friar! YUMMY!

The fold overs are really good. My wife, daughters, and two of my grandkids loved them. Portioned proper to me - no lacking of food for the price! I agree the food trucks have been a great option to have around the park. I also love the BBQ additions to CP Shores & CP Park.

I think the Food Trucks are a good idea....but I find it hard to visit them when I already get "free" food with my dining plan. If they somehow could accept the dining plan, I'd use them more.

Ive personally never eaten at the food trucks but understand why they are needed. Im just not a fan of how all the food trucks turn a beautiful park like Cedar Point into something that reminds me of the local county fair.

But the temporary wood sheds they serve food out of don’t remind you of a county fair?

Or the wood shack walk up food stands that look like concessions under the grandstands at county fairs ?

Honestly, no they don’t because they don’t line the entire midway.

I may just be used to seeing food trucks at various places (from downtown Cleveland to graduation parties) but when I walk down the Cedar Point midway, the last thing I am seeing is a local county fair. Eyes of the beholder as they say.

This is just one reason why 90% of our visits occur during HW. There's actually good food. It's still pricey, but at least at those food trucks you get something GOOD and HOT, neither of which are common among the CP establishments.

For the owners of the food trucks, this is their living, their income. If they don't provide good, hot food and fast service they are out of work and have no income. The food service employees at CP don't have to worry if their food is hot or cold, good or bad, or how fast their service is. They will get paid anyway. They need to be held accountable!

Yes, fire them if the food sucks and service is slow! That’ll turn things around! /sarcasm

You’re right... best to do nothing, let the inmates run the asylum.
Clearly it’s working so well that they need to bring in many third party vendors to cover food services for a park that has attendance 1/3 of a football stadium.

I sincerely want to see food services turned around, this mentality that these workers won’t perform is ludicrous. The McDonald’s before the entrance, along with most McDonald’s, has very pleasant and fast workers. It’s the omnipresent management that keeps fast service restaurants moving, CF could work to keep their managers/TLs on site instead of paper pushing out of customer views.

I personally love the food trucks. I was disappointed this last season when I didn't see the bbq trailer that was always parked by the firetruck near Valravn. They had a meal called the pit, which consisted of pulled pork, baked beans, and mac n cheese all in a big cup, with slaw on the side that was delicious. It was about $10 I believe, always hot, and fresh, so a very good deal.

The woes of a seasonal business under one corporate umbrella.

It never occurred to me until reading much -early twentieth century amusement park- literature, how many facets of the business were outsourced. Concession stands of course and obviously entertainment but surprisingly rides even. Coasters, flats, kiddy, everything could and often was Leased, licensed, contracted, rented or otherwise outsourced. (Cost savings/earnings for the park) The industry still observes the practice with food largely, but no where near a century ago.

There’s something to be said for folks who specialize in their craft; Better product. Not the same with minimally paid and inexperienced high school / college age kids trained to and provided with rubbish to serve.

XS, McDonald’s employees have modern equipment, fair, balanced, consistent schedules, the option to work full-time, year around, get paid more, and have managers who actually give a f... None of which can be said for Cedar Point food service employees. Some of these dreams of Cedar Point food service being this epicurian wonderland are laughable.

Augustmueller said:

The woes of a seasonal business under one corporate umbrella.

It never occurred to me until reading much -early twentieth century amusement park- literature, how many facets of the business were outsourced. Concession stands of course and obviously entertainment but surprisingly rides even. Coasters, flats, kiddy, everything could and often was Leased, licensed, contracted, rented or otherwise outsourced. (Cost savings/earnings for the park) The industry still observes the practice with food largely, but no where near a century ago.

There’s something to be said for folks who specialize in their craft; Better product. Not the same with minimally paid and inexperienced high school / college age kids trained to and provided with rubbish to serve.

Reading your post made me think of a book I checked out a while ago, Cedar Point: The Queen of American Watering Places (Info on the book here) which featured some pictures of these family owned food stands, most commonly French Fry stands....so I looked up who that was just now and found it was the Berardi family (Their History Here). They apparently owned and operated rides at Cedar Point. Anyway....I'm guessing their family wasn't the only ones....I wonder what the reason for family owned food stands left Cedar Point could be.

DRE420 said:

I personally love the food trucks. I was disappointed this last season when I didn't see the bbq trailer that was always parked by the firetruck near Valravn. They had a meal called the pit, which consisted of pulled pork, baked beans, and mac n cheese all in a big cup, with slaw on the side that was delicious. It was about $10 I believe, always hot, and fresh, so a very good deal.

The BBQ trailer was there this fall, but in a different location. I believe it was on the Gemini midway. As an avid amateur BBQ chef myself, I always had respect for the how he has food ready to go from start to close. That takes a lot of man hours and planning with as long as some of these slow cooks can take!

I would like to buy from a food truck on HalloWeekends, but considering I pretty much on Fridays during that period, but time is tight enough to use my dining plan. I really wish they would waive the 4 hour rule (really 3h 45 min) on HW Fridays. But yeah I know if I tried a food truck item it would be immensely better.

DRE420- That BBQ Truck was there in late September. Trying to remember where it was... I wanna say it was closer to Millennium Force but don’t hold me to that.

MaverickLaunch- We were gonna give them a try 2x and both times they were out of Mac & cheese and pulled pork.