50's Prime Time Café

50's Prime Time Café

A photograph of a white building with a pink, green, and yellow television-shaped sign in front of it reading "50's PRIME TIME Cafe" in stylized letters

Entrance
Restaurant information
Established 1989
Current owner(s) Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
City Bay Lake
County Orange County
State Florida
Country United States
Website disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/hollywood-studios/50s-prime-time-cafe/

The 50's Prime Time Café is a restaurant at Disney's Hollywood Studios, one of the four main theme parks at Walt Disney World.[1] The restaurant replicates the kitsch of a 1950s diner.[2] The waitresses dress similarly to Leave It to Beaver character June Cleaver, and each acts as though she is the mother of the guests she is serving.[3] While eating, guests watch 1950s television shows such as Leave It to Beaver and Topper on black-and-white televisions.[4] Menu items include vegetarian chili,[5] pot roast, fried chicken, meatloaf, and milkshakes.[6] The 50's Prime Time Café opened in 1989. Two years later, another theme restaurant opened at the park: the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant;[7] the 50's Prime Time Café had garnered much success, and Disney hoped that another restaurant that had a strong emphasis on theme would have a similar level of success. The Sci-Fi Dine-In initially received little interest, but, within five weeks of opening, it was serving between 1,500 and 2,000 meals on a daily basis, just as the 50's Prime Time Café was doing.[8] These restaurants are two of the four in the park that offer table service, the others being the Hollywood Brown Derby and Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano.[9] In the book Walt Disney World Resort: Also Includes Seaworld and Central Florida, Corey Sandler writes that the 50's Prime Time Café ties with the Beaches and Cream Soda Shop at Disney's Beach Club Resort for the best milkshakes in Walt Disney World.[10]

References

  1. ↑ O'Halloran (2007), p. 189.
  2. ↑ Gindin & Greenhill-Taylor (2011), p. 19.
  3. ↑ Wiley & Jenkins (2012), p. 327.
  4. ↑ Goldsbury (2010), p. 313.
  5. ↑ Barnhart, Phillip (October 1992). "Going Veg with Mickey and the Gang". Vegetarian Times. p. 93.
  6. ↑ Lafray (2005), p. 60.
  7. ↑ Nicholas, Erin (December 18, 1991). "Sci-Fi Dine-In among WDW's 20th birthday attractions". Restaurants & Institutions. p. 37.
  8. ↑ O'Brien, Tim (October 21, 1991). "Disney-MGM Studios eateries create fun environment, boost bottom line". Amusement Business. p. 20.
  9. ↑ Shumaker (2003), p. 77.
  10. ↑ Sandler (2007), p. 46.

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