Amusement Park Food Survey

Hello everyone. I'm currently doing a research project for two of my classes, on the topic of amusement park food. If you could a few minutes to take the survey linked below, I would greatly appreciate it!

-samosuband

Survey Here

*note this survey is posted with prior permission from Jeff.

Good luck on your project.

Nice survey, curious to see the results, hope it goes well.

Also, I think you totes used one of my images I think, it looks just like the one I took last year :P

Hmm looks as though I did. I just googled Cedar Point skyline, and that was one of the best results

Why is the survey so generalized?

Are you satisfied with the food at amusement parks?

At any Cedar Fair park, CP in particular (King's Island has some decent options in park, but has the most atrocious fast service food I've ever seen), absolutely not... its garbage that shouldn't be consumed by any living species. CP is remarkably bad unless you're dining outside the park at one of the non-fast food restaurants. Your survey doesn't take into consideration the difference in chains or smaller parks, parks with just quick service stands vs. full service restaurants, or even parks with actual healthy specialized restaurant availability (Six Flags of all places).

The food options at the Busch Parks, Universal, Disney, Even half the places at SFGA I'm not dissatisfied at all. But to lump them all together as if you could equate CF food with Busch food is ludicrous. I've been to county fairs with better food and service than CP and KI, which is particularly frustrating since most of the available options in park come off the same Sysco Food Services truck.

And on a side note: don't even bring up the crap they serve at Best Day Cafe, the most ironically named facility in the park.

XS NightClub said:
And on a side note: don't even bring up the crap they serve at Best Day Cafe, the most ironically named facility in the park.

Assuming you're an employee, you need to remember that the Best Day BISTRO is better than anything from stockade.

XS NightClub said:

Why is the survey so generalized?

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But to lump them all together as if you could equate CF food with Busch food is ludicrous.

They are lumped together because I'm looking at healthy vs unhealthy. Not quality. I get that some parks have better quality food than others, but that does nothing to do with how healthy or unhealthy the food is.

As far as the comments about Best Day Bistro vs Stockade. Yes, the Best Day Bistro food is a lot better than Stockade, although I prefer fries from Stockade as they taste more fresh.

Having lost 40 pounds over the last year, healthy food is a must for me, for the most part.

I visited 15 parks this summer.

6 Flags parks had the most healthy food choices and their all season food pass included 2 meals, 1 snack and all drinks at all parks for only $80.

Cedar Fair parks had ok choices at most of their parks. The platinum food pass plus the all season drink bottle cost me $175 and only got me 2 meals and drinks for the year. That's right, more than double the cost for less healthy food choices and no snack.

Cedar Point is the worst. They offer grilled chicken, but only on nasty white bread buns.

I will just eat at Famous Dave's or Perkins in the future. No more Platinum food pass for me.

I don't expect anything better than fast food at an amusement park, as i said in the survey. CP food isn't the greatest but I wouldn't classify it all as garbage.

Then you've been to the wrong amusement parks.

There's parks out there with great food options, not just healthy, but really good.

I cannot think of one quick service food at CP that isn't basically garbage. We stopped getting the dining plans this year because we just wouldn't bother eating it.

Yeah, true I guess. I haven't gotten around that much. I have eaten more at CP this season than any before (first season I've had a dining plan). And everything is just as I expected- made with the cheapest ingredients, and most of everything is fried. I wouldn't expect anything better or worse if McDonald's ran food services at CP.

I agree that for the price you pay, the quality should be better. If they improve in this area, almost certainly prices will follow.

Heading to CP this weekend, I saw on the CPfoodblog that the chef has setup a stand for Baked potatoes, I'm really looking forward to trying those this weekend. They're apparently using the stands from brew/BBQ and beach party events.

Hoping it's a sign of good things to come.

Zoug68 said:

Having lost 40 pounds over the last year, healthy food is a must for me, for the most part.

Cedar Point is the worst. They offer grilled chicken, but only on nasty white bread buns.

I agree. There are also people, like me, who choose not to eat animal products. There isn't much of choice at CF amusement parks, while finding food without animal products at Disney is no big deal.

Perhaps part of that, though, is that Disney has four theme parks, two water parks, and approximately a gazbillion hotel rooms: they are operating on a much larger scale than Cedar Point, making broader vegetarian options more viable to the accounting department.

Welcome back Noggin! I missed you.

The food trucks at the park this weekend are really good, fire department running one by mine ride is excellent.

The Turkey Dinner stuffed potato was excellent and very large. Well worth the $8 and quality food.

I've always found the food quality issue most curious with Cedar Point, especially considering that several of their GM's came from the Food Services Division , including Mr. Kinzel.

XS NightClub said:
Welcome back Noggin! I missed you.

The food trucks at the park this weekend are really good, fire department running one by mine ride is excellent.

Aw shucks.

I've been moving, a long, arduous, aggravating, exasperating, move.

On the upside, at my new digs I have a private enterance to the indoor swimming pool and the guys that own the house keep "forcing" me to binge watch Star Trek TNG and DS9 (see avatar).

noggin said:

On the upside, at my new digs I have a private enterance to the indoor swimming pool...

In other words, he has a bathtub.

Nope :-) though the entrance to the indoor swimming pool is next to my bathtub.