Starbucks announced to replace Magic Kingdom's Main Street Bakery, Epcot's Fountain View in 2013 at Walt Disney World - Inside the Magic

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  1. Dwa

    So, let me get this straight. Disney can come up with and produce phatasmic and reproduce some facsimile of decent food from around the world, but they can’t brew their own decent blends of coffee? While I can see the somewhat minimal impact of just putting the starbuck’s coffee in a Disney restaurant, the fact that its putting in a corporate mega giant that I pass by multiple times to get to the local coffee shop brings a bit of the outside world reality into the escape that Disney has so painstakingly created and maintained. Surprising. It seems to me that it grossly detracts from the very thing that they work so hard and so well to create.

  2. GLP

    Forgetting their roots. Walt Disney, “I don’t want the public to see the world they live in while they’re in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they’re in another world.”

    1. SLR

      I was just thinking this myself! I go to Disney to escape the everyday. I don’t want Starbucks there to remind me that the real world is waiting for me after my holidays run out. Bad move on their part. *tsk*

  3. Ian Banks

    This is a really worrisome sign. No, putting in a Starbucks by itself isn’t a big deal. But it shows how Disney culture is slipping. Also, give me a break with the “oh, we wanted to bring in a better product” argument. A well-run independent coffee shop will run circles around Starbucks. Disney could easily have done this if it had wanted to. But it would have taken money. This was a money saver for them.

  4. Glen

    HORRIBLE!!!! HORRIBLE!!! This is not what turn of the century Main St. USA is about — Starbucks. It’s is borderline criminal that they’ve destroyed the original design of the area into more same-old commerce– gift shops and more gift shops selling the same stuff you can get anywhere. And now this? It used to be a place of craftsmen, unique gifts, shops, magic, confections — things you might have seen in 1900. Starbucks is not on that list!

  5. Beth

    Although I am a Starbucks coffee lover, I do have to say that I agree with the fact that it does ruin a little of the “Magic” at Disney. We always went straight to the Main Street Bakery and started our day off with coffee and a cinnamon bun. Disney is meant to take you into another world and seeing a Starbucks sign (as little as it may be), will affect the atmosphere. Doesn’t the sign say as you enter: “Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy”?

  6. Rose

    starbucks takes away from the original meaning of main street…old timer bakery….just will not fit in with the look. i am so disappointed and will have to take my business elsewhere from now on.it was a great start of the day and i shouldn’t have to go all over the park to find what i want..disney…what are you thinking?

  7. Katrina

    If you are worried about walking to get your cinnamon rolls…..take the train. I am glad to see Starbucks coffee come to Disney!

  8. evi

    Best decision ever!!! They will continue to serve the same junk food onsite at different locations but finally have real coffee instead of nasty nescafe. I call it a win win.

  9. Chris

    Can’t wait. That other coffee was crap! Bring on good coffee in Disney!

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