New for 2014

As long as the new Starbucks offers doughnuts and breakfast stuff, I'm completely fine with it.

What did Doughnut Time offer that Starbuck's won't? I'm actually curious if anybody happens to know.

Cheaper coffee? I think Starbucks is a good fit for the park. Lots of people like it, I just think its overpriced for coffee that is not too much better then every other brand. The important thing is that It will most likely sell very well.

! said:
What did Doughnut Time offer that Starbuck's won't?

Crappy regular coffee, and horrendously, embarrassingly bad espresso-based drinks.

They're definitely overpriced even outside the park, but provided this location can come close to matching Starbucks' typical quality, it will be a huge improvement, at least as far as coffee is concerned.

Also, most Starbucks do offer various baked goods, as well as breakfast and lunch items.

djDaemon said:

! said:
What did Doughnut Time offer that Starbuck's won't?

Crappy regular coffee, and horrendously, embarrassingly bad espresso-based drinks.

They're definitely overpriced even outside the park, but provided this location can come close to matching Starbucks' typical quality, it will be a huge improvement, at least as far as coffee is concerned.

Also, most Starbucks do offer various baked goods, as well as breakfast and lunch items.

I was under the impression that Donut-Time's regular coffee WAS Starbucks since at least 2006? Or were those "Proud to Serve Starbuck's Coffee" signs just for decoration?

They served Starbucks-branded coffee, but it was poorly prepared and served by some of the most incompetent employees in the park, at least in my experience.

The Wife and I went there 4 or 5 times over the last few years, and it was reliably awful every time. It wasn't really a surprise that the espresso drinks were awful, but I would have expected their coffee to be not terrible.

I don't know if making it a full-fledged Starbucks will solve the employee issue (or maybe I just had bad timing or luck), but at least now they'll have the equipment to make a proper espresso drink.

I agree with you dj! However, don't expect to have friendly Starbucks employees greeting you when you go this year. They're going to be the same Cedar Point employees you put up with at Donut Time las year

They can be rude, so long as they know how to make a tall double no whip mocha. :)

There's Starbucks and there's fake Starbucks, like what you find at a lot of hotels and yes, Donut Time.
When a lessee at a place like Cedar Point is a well known national brand you can bet they won't put a product out that doesnt meet their company's standards. I've noticed at CP that other places like Panda, Fridays, and the chicken that shall not be named have a mix of their own employees and CP seasonal hires as well. And I bet in a lot of cases the CP kids do thing's like man the register, clean, stock, stuff like that. A regular company person will at least oversee food production and quality.
Those of you that are afraid your coffee and pastries won't be up to snuff can rest assured. If the the sign says Starbucks it's gonna be just that.

TwistedWicker77 said:
I would love to know how many of you actually craved Donut Time. Not because it was the only "breakfast" option at the front of the park, but because you really enjoyed the food and coffee.

Well, I enjoyed the donuts and cinnamon rolls, but I also like Starbucks drinks and food. Overall, I think its a win, Starbucks has a better selection than Donut Time did.

And some Starbucks are now serving beer and wine. :)

Definite win then!

Beer choices could be better in the park, one can hope. KI has Shock Top at least and Stella if I really feel like it..CP just has Blue Moon at least..But common, get some Great Lakes up there lol.

I assume Chickie's and Pete's replaced the Game Day Grille. Shouldn't it be "Chickie and Pete's"? Kinda like Dave and Buster's?

Sorry, nitpick. :)

TwistedWicker77 said:
Definite win then!

"Some" locations, and definitely not at CP. Sorry to burst your bubble. :)

And devarious, I thought I remember a decent beer selection back in FT. Definitely more than just Blue Moon. I seem to remember my Wife getting a shandy or some such thing.

Still no Great Lakes haha. Few weeks back at Kalahari I had Christmas Ale, still good, and then followed by Conways, I was very very happy

I don't recall ever having a beer inside the park. (I'm not counting the many that were chugged in the parking lot during the college days) Maybe I need to put that on the bucket list for 2014. These days it always seems like a nice idea, but I instead find myself chugging water to stay hydrated while chasing around the kiddos. Things sure have changed here on Walton's mountain.....LOL

I almost 100% sure that I had Great Lakes in the park last summer. If I'm not mistaken, I think it's available in the outdoor bar by Luminosity.

They did have Great Lakes last year. For the first Friday night Halloweekends event for club members and media, they had Edmund Fitzgerald available at the Midway Market. And I believe I saw it at the outdoor bar as Pete mentioned.

The day I can get a nice black and tan in the park, I'll be 100% satisfied. :)

Pete said:
I almost 100% sure that I had Great Lakes in the park last summer. If I'm not mistaken, I think it's available in the outdoor bar by Luminosity.

Hope your right. I looked for it last year but couldn't find it but never thought about the Luminosity bar.

Now if they would get some decent beer on tap at bubbles...life would be perfect