Cedar Fair Entertainment Company High Food Prices

Cedar Fair Entertainment Company high food and beverage prices have risen to a place that makes it difficult for family's to enjoy a complete amusement park experience. Our hope with this petition is to send a message to Cedar Fair executives that we the people have had enough of poorly prepared over priced food and beverages.

Please sign this petition if you would like to voice your concern to Cedar Fair Executives about poorly prepared over priced food and beverages.

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/CedarFairHighFoodPrices

Thanks maybe we can make a difference *** Edited 7/11/2007 11:17:20 PM UTC by coasterxtreme72***

While I respect your concern about prices, they really aren't that bad. If your food isn't good, return it. But to expect regular pricing is a bit much to ask. While I don't know the exact overhead the park, your admission price most of the time goes to cover that. I know most entertainment venues (movies, stadiums, etc..) are this way. The profits come from the money you spend in the park on food and merch. My bigger concern personally is why is gas twice as much as it was 3 years ago!! But if I was getting some of that profit money, I wouldn't be complaining.

Good luck with your petition but after visiting a six flags park, I'll take CF pricing anyday!!

I think the prices are fine. Look at Six flags. Theirs are ten times worse.

Everybody overprices food. (Im not talking about reastraunts) $8 for a beer at a baseball game and $6 for a hotdog. At Movie Theaters popcorn is $6.50 and a drink is 4 bucks. It happens everywhere. Thats how the Tigers have a great fireworks show every weekend and how Theme Parks get $20+ Million rides.

Either sign it or not! I do believe that it will help. Yes it does help to show them by actions but, I do believe that telling them enough is enough will help also. We should be doing everything that we can do. This world has gotten so cynical.

The prices aren't that bad.

The quality of service and speed of service could be improved at some stands, but I wouldn't call it overpriced.

In a bit of related news, I noticed today at the park that Dippin Dots prices have gone down 25 cents per size. So a large is now $7 rather than $7.25. ;)

I also dont see them as that bad at all, especially after visiting SF Great Adventure.

Service is another thing altogether, but the prices aren't that high consider where you are.

You can always pack a lunch.

Here is a quote from one bright bulb that signed the petition:

$3 for a 20 oz of pop is insane. I can get two 20 oz bottles at speedway gas stations for $2

Yeah, and I here the roller coasters at Speedway are fantastic!

*** Edited 7/12/2007 12:30:41 AM UTC by Kevinj***
*** Edited 7/12/2007 12:31:03 AM UTC by Kevinj***

Kevinj said:
Yeah, and I here the roller coasters at Speedway are fantastic!

I've never been to a Speedway that had roller coasters but I have been to Kennywood and other parks that price their food and beverages accordingly. Hell, what about parks that hand out free soda? Or ones that don't charge for parking? They nail you on both aspects at CP and the prices are NOT even remotely reasonable.

Maybe some of you should experience the world a little more and stop living under a peninsula.

I don't have coasters here either and it costs me at minimum, $20 for lunch. I love going to CP because it's cheap. :)

Yeah, must suck living in a 3rd world country.

Oh wait, you don't pay anything to live there...as a matter of fact they pay you!

Loopy said:

Kevinj said:
Yeah, and I here the roller coasters at Speedway are fantastic!

I've never been to a Speedway that had roller coasters but I have been to Kennywood and other parks that price their food and beverages accordingly. Hell, what about parks that hand out free soda? Or ones that don't charge for parking? They nail you on both aspects at CP and the prices are NOT even remotely reasonable.

Maybe some of you should experience the world a little more and stop living under a peninsula.

Thanks My Point Loopy!

When you get a Chicken Fingers basket for $8 bucks thats high but all right. When that basket does not include a drink and only has 3 chicken fingers in it then something is wrong with the pricing.

They are way over priced and there isn't much of an excuse for it.

Sorry, but I think just not buying their product is a way to voice your opinion. As long as they allow you to bring your own food & even provide picnic shelters for your use, I don't feel it is difficult for families to enjoy the park. Some things at the park are definatly overpriced, (soda for one), but I could always pack a cooler full of this & hit it throughout the day if I didn't want to pay for it. And water is given free at any food stand. It just takes a little forethought to get around paying for food at the park by bringing your own. Because it's a matter of choice, (to buy or bring), I do not feel it's a petition kind of thing.

Yeah I want to go to a theme park and not be able to buy the food that is half the fun, But when you have to pay $8.00 for a cheese burger THAT IS JUST WRONG! and they need to be told.

Good Grief... said:
Sorry, but I think just not buying their product is a way to voice your opinion. As long as they allow you to bring your own food & even provide picnic shelters for your use, I don't feel it is difficult for families to enjoy the park. Some things at the park are definatly overpriced, (soda for one), but I could always pack a cooler full of this & hit it throughout the day if I didn't want to pay for it. And water is given free at any food stand. It just takes a little forethought to get around paying for food at the park by bringing your own. Because it's a matter of choice, (to buy or bring), I do not feel it's a petition kind of thing.

Do you have any clue how many people not buying their food it would take to make an opinion count? This isn't your local stop n' shop, it's Cedar Point.

And I agree with Loopy. Ten dollars for parking? For what? They don't even redo the damn parking lot...or offer anything in return. And charging a high price for crappy service and small amounts of food is ridiculous.

Since 2001 I have not bought a single food item in the park, and I never will, simply because of the amount I spend just to get in the park.

Food and drink pricing is one of the very, very few ways (IMO) that Kennywood beats CP. You can get a decent lunch at Kennywood for nearly half the price of a lunch at the Point, no exaggeration. Granted, I'd much rather buy a lunch at CP since I like the place so much better, but why the pricing is so different between the two parks for the same product is beyond me.

Will I sign a petition for this? No. There are a lot of places that overprice their food. And since I don't spend a long amount of time there, I don't buy a whole lot of food, so it's not a big deal. I'm sure a lot of people look at it that way.

I took this picture a couple of weeks ago while at Blossom Music Center. And for $4.25, they don't even give you the cap. While there may be legitimate complaints about the quality and price of the park's food offerings, Cedar Point hardly leads the entertainment industry in that regard.

If you don't like the food and/or the price, vote with your wallet. An online petition has zero influence. Coaster enthusiasts start online petitions from time to time to complain about something, save a coaster, etc. They're not taken seriously by many in the enthusiast community, let alone the company the petition seeks to influence. And for the most part, the demographic that will sign this online petition isn't the demographic that spends money at Cedar Point.

I agree that you should vote with your wallet, that's how the free market works. I usually stay at Lighthouse point and bring food, though I usually eat at TGIFriday's too. But the carnival food...forget about it. It's not so much the high price for me, it's the ABYSMAL service and quality. I never know what it'll be...get told my food will be right up, stand there for ten minutes, finally ask about it, get told "oops" and stand around for another ten minutes? Cold, rubbery food? Malts that taste like pure syrup? Pathetic portions? Undercooked french fries? The dismal possibilities are endless.

All else equal, I think we'll see a continuation of the trend towards chain restaurants like TGIFriday's, Famous Dave's, and Chick-Fil-A. Their service isn't great either when they're swamped, but at least you know what you're getting, and it's of relatively decent quality and value.

The pricing is too high. It's offensive even. If you visit the park often, it's downright not practical.

I've said it before... per cap goes up slightly (though not in line with inflation, as someone mentioned), attendance goes down. That's pretty simple math to me. When everything is a buck more than Orlando prices, that's not good. When the cost of living around here is generally so low and the economy is in the crapper, it's also bad. When the service sucks and the quality is mediocre at best, that's bad.

It frankly doesn't add up, and it's going to bite them in the ass.