Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant
The Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant is a theme restaurant at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, United States. Established in May 1991, the restaurant is modeled after a 1950s drive-in theater. Guests watch a large projection screen displaying film clips from such 1950s and 1960s films as Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster and Plan 9 from Outer Space.
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The Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant is a theme restaurant at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, United States. Established in May 1991, the restaurant is modeled after a 1950s drive-in theater. Guests watch a large projection screen displaying film clips from such 1950s and 1960s films as Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, Plan 9 from Outer Space, and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. The restaurant serves traditional cuisine of the United States and popcorn functions as a complimentary hors d’oeuvre. It has received mixed reviews, but many reviewers rate it more highly for its atmosphere than for its cuisine. Thai movie theater operator EGV Entertainment opened the EGV Drive-in Cafe in Bangkok in 2003, in a very similar style to the Sci- Fi Dine, in the same style as the restaurant in Walt Disney Studios Hollywood Studios. In 2003, Minnie Mouse character meals held at Hollywood & Vine were discontinued that year, and Robert Johnson of the Orlando Sentinel partially attributed this cancellation to competition from the Sci Fi Dine In, which he said “almost always has a line of customers waiting” The restaurant has a total of six cars, although this was not the case the first year the restaurant opened. There are six picnic tables near the back of the room that are only used when the rest of the dining room is full. All guests who make reservations are willing to forego the experience of sitting in the cars, though there are six-seaters when the restaurant first opened.
The booths were designed to look like convertibles from the 1940s and 1950s, and are made of fiberglass with much chrome plating. The license plates are dated from 1955, and each convertible seats four people, although these mock vehicles were initially six-Seaters when they were initially opened. A year after opening, the restaurant had become the most popular restaurant in the park, serving more than 2,200 people per day at peak periods. By the following year, it was serving upwards of 1,500 to 2,000 meals on a daily basis, just as the 50’s Prime Time Café was doing. It is located on Commissary Lane across from Star Tours and adjacent to ABC Commissaries. It opened on April 20, 1991 as one of the twenty new attractions opened at Disney World to mark the complex’s twentieth anniversary. It was created with a strong emphasis on theme, in emulation of the 50’s Prime Time Café, which had opened two years prior. The restaurant equipped its servers with point of sale mobile devices that relayed orders to a printer in the kitchen, which was considered at the time to be in keeping with the science fiction theme because the technology had been developed shortly prior. These devices were developed by Walt Disney Imagineering and are mounted on poles next to next to each car.
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