Right, and in general UOR will accept higher attendance a lot quicker than WDW. Even if WDW opens up some amount of availability, visitors are trained now that they need to plan to go to WDW.
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@chailsâs trip report today (or yesterday, I just caught up) showed HORRIBLE distancing in lines at Epcot. She said she even got dirty looks when she asked people to step back. Apparently, people are taking 3ft to be âback to normalâ.
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Yeah at this point in the pandemic most people are ready to move on and act normally. Especially those who are finally getting to travel.
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I wonder if this will help dining capacity as well. Did they have to remove or block tables that can come back now?
Iâm not sure because masks are off when dining. They may hold off there. Tables were removed in some restaurants.
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Our last day at Universal was yesterday. We saw them adding the new markers. We wondered what took so long since wasnât it 2 months ago that CDC said 3â? It didnât seem to be a big deal to do since it was just adding another marker midway between what was there. Although the new ones didnât have text on them to tell you what they were for. I told daughter that people are trained now, so they donât need to explain.
One thing weird, and maybe they were there before and I didnât notice. We saw 3" wide black squares spaced 2â apart on some queues. Where I noticed them was on some queues where the floor was black.
I observed that people were back to normal on the spacing. People generally kept 2â-3â in front of them. Thinking about it, there wasnât much that they could do to enforce 6â spacing since backing people up would cause more crowding behind them.
As a pale redhead who is practically sun-phobic I had to be told to move forward a few times when Iâd found a shady spot in the queue. Weâd tell people we were âanti-social distancing.â I did find a side benefit to the mask. At the waterpark, my nose got a little burnt. Usually when that happens, no amount of sunscreen will keep that from getting much worse if I go out into the sun again. But the mask allowed my nose time to heal.
One TM said that they are doing 60% now.
At least in Citywalk, we saw very few tables removed from use. Although they were spaced out. We ate at full service restaurants, with the mardi gras lanyard and some ice cream, but none of the Q.S. dining at a table.
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Thanks for the update
Is this at indoor restaurants?
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Not for nothing - I donât think that UOR has felt much pressure to do things Disneyâs way for a long time now. I think they thrive on being âother.â If Disney is Box Lunch, UOR is Hot Topic. (That only works if you know the stores.)
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No, 60% was park capacity compared to Before.
I canât really say about inside-the-park dining. When we did sit at an indoor table (Finneganâs and Mythos) it was at slightly off times and those are full service restaurants. It might have been that some tables were removed and the remaining ones spaced out.
One thing that drives us bat-poo-crazy about restaurants now. Getting a stinking menu is such a problem now. This isnât unique to Universal. Theyâve known for, what is it 6 months?, that surfaces arenât a problem. But weâre expected to use our tiny phone screens to look at the menu. Iâve turned our cell phones from smart to dim for security reasons and DHâs doesnât even have a browser. DD doesnât have a cell phone. But even if we could use our phones, I wouldnât want to. Looking at a menu is one of the perks of eating inside the restaurant, just like having someone-not-me clean the table. I like being able to look at the top left on the menu and the instantly read the bottom right. I like discussing what we are ordering and being able to say âWhere did you see that? It sounds goodâ. Rant over.
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Yes I noticed this very quickly at Three Broomsticks. It was more laid back plus we had the servers come, and they even cleaned up. I loved the new way of ordering/serving, wish they keep it!
Oh shoot, I reported on the menus in my Trip Report. Printed menus worked great for us. I even had them for the QS. When we had time waiting in a line, we could look and decide what to order, that saved using the phone too much.
For TS, if the schedule was tight we looked at it ahead of our reservation time or just got it out at the table.
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Iâve been doing this for as long as I can remember. I love handing the menus out as we are in lines so they can speed up ordering.
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Exactly. I do wish I would have printed 2 copies per restaurant. 1 was not quite enough for the 4 of us. But we made it work! DS was quite happy looking on his phone.
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So, you printed them from home? Were they complete? Last time I looked was last summer and they didnât have things like the kids items.
At Toothsome they didnât even give us the complete menu. Theirs is two 2-sided sheets (maybe more) At first they gave us two copies of one sheet of the menu and a kidâs menu. DD and I usually split an adult entree, so we had to ask for an adult menu for her. That time they brought the two different sheets of the menu plus the alcohol sheet.
Yes, I printed from home. Everywhere was complete yes. I actually copied and pasted on Word because I didnât need to print everything. Like kids menus, allergy food, etc.
We brought the Toothsome menu and ordered off of it. In March they had no such sheet. Ours was a big menu but they had everything we ordered.
The only place that provided a menu on the entire trip was Bubba Gumps. And we ate at probably 10 TS places.
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They do if you ask, but they donât like it. At a couple of places they said that the prices werenât accurate.
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Should I delete the thread I started with that news?
No. I just like to have news items here so itâs at one place for reference. 
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News this exciting can never be in too many places!
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