I'm thinking the same thing. It will difficult for Disney to pull the festival off this year. You'd need to have social distancing for people standing in lines for the booths and for people to eat their selections from the booths. Attendance at the food and wine pairings would have to be scaled down (you couldn't have people sitting next to each other at tables). I'm sure Disney's energy will be focused on the parameters of just getting the parks back open and running. I also wonder if the Halloween and Christmas parties will need to be cancelled.We have a F&W trip planned in October, but I don't know how they can pull it off (if the park is even open.) There are just too many variables serving food outdoors. Hope I'm wrong though and we all get to go
We're already past some of the announcement dates from last year.
Wouldn’t it be better to have more booths though? To spread out the crowds more?
I still have concerns with social distancing. Can Disney really make sure that people are six feet apart while waiting in line for the booths? I have been in several grocery and drug stores over the last few weeks where the floors have six foot distances marked on them and most people ignore them.
Of course they can't. Its up to the individuals to be responsible for their actions.
I was thinking more along the lines of dishes available. Profit is going to be the big focus for Disney, followed by dishes that don't require touching with your hands. If they have only a quarter traffic (assuming extreme capacity limits) of what usually comes through, there's no way they can offer the variety they've been doing the last few years.
A lot of food dishes are prepared backstage and just reheated in the booths. I would assume this becomes standard practice for nearly everything so they can only staff the booth kitchens with 1 or 2 people. There's no way we see lines as crazy as they've been for the past few years. If they do go with an entry reservation system, it's just going to be impossible to get an Epcot reservation on weekends during the festival. I feel like most people will follow social distancing well if CM's aren't screaming to fill in all the available space anymore. I've personally always stayed a good bit behind the group in front of me in line. Not just for health reasons, but who really smells that good after a few hours outside in Florida
Good to know. I thought we had information by now last year.
We had to reschedule our March girls trip to October and we have an anniversary trip planned for November, so it just happens to be that this year we’ll be there twice during Festival time. For the October trip, we have one TS ressie for Wine Bar George and we will just roll with QS if there’s no F&W, or check for last minute ressies. For the November trip, my ADR day is Monday so I think we’ll make a few more TS than we normally would as a backup plan, and if the Festival does go on we’ll cancel them.
I agree. I just wonder how different it will be with all the changes that most likely will still be in place. Will it still have the same feel? Of course, that can be said for all of WDW.
