Anyone Work on the food service side of WDW?

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

We've got 'em in Dallas, too. Overruled. :)

Agreed, DFW is MUCH eaiser to get too!

plus I have stayed at the hotel just off the airport (The one with the micro-brewery attached!!!!)

hehehehehehehe

[felinefan]

Sprouts markets have tons of gluten-free stuff. I don't know if they have Sprouts stores anywhere outside of California--I'll have to look-- but if there was one in Texas, you could buy your own stuff without having to lug it through the airport.

[mechurchlady]

Sprouts markets have tons of gluten-free stuff. I don't know if they have Sprouts stores anywhere outside of California--I'll have to look-- but if there was one in Texas, you could buy your own stuff without having to lug it through the airport.

Having purged and puked and lost a new shirt in an airport means to me the need to lug tons of gluten free food with me.

[ktulu]

Sprouts markets have tons of gluten-free stuff. I don't know if they have Sprouts stores anywhere outside of California--I'll have to look-- but if there was one in Texas, you could buy your own stuff without having to lug it through the airport.

We do indeed have a Sprouts near us and it is close to DFW airport! That is where we shop for our veggies, fish and sometimes beef/chicken. They also have a great roasted garlic hummus, and a hawaiian hazelnut coffee that has coconut infuzed. I don't get any of the hazelnut, but lots of the coconut. So yummy...

[mechurchlady]

I go to Whole Foods Market and they are a bit more but a lot of healthy foods. I get Applegate meats and California rolls. They even have a gluten free bakery that sell the best corn bread.

[FD.S]

Thank you for the link. It is very helpful ,and I'll go through it more to see what i need to do.

And thank you for the warm welcome! Lol I'd never mind making a dinner/dessert for anyone. It is going to be my job afterall! You might just have to wait until i get to Disney to try my goodies. ;) Hopefully by that time they'll be good, though!

It seems that if i go in as an extern with my college i'll be housed and put together with college program people as well. Can anyone give me a headsup on housing or what i should look out for? I only ask because i feel like sometimes the information they give isn't the entire story. Thank you! :)

[darph nader]

yeah, maybe you will work in the candy store as a fudge packer too.
make it, box it, sell it. err taste it.

A fudge packer?????

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

A fudge packer?????

In some states that is illegal.

or so I have been told!

[drcorey]

A fudge packer?????

yes, I worked for years at Ethel M candy company on the fudge line,
after it cooled, it was cut up into pieces, and sent to the FUDGE PACKER
line to be wrapped and boxed up. we were called FUDGE PACKERS.
a long long time before you morons gave it another stupid meaning....

geez, do most all people share one brain these days.

[Amphigorey]

Thank you for the link. It is very helpful ,and I'll go through it more to see what i need to do.


It seems that if i go in as an extern with my college i'll be housed and put together with college program people as well. Can anyone give me a headsup on housing or what i should look out for? I only ask because i feel like sometimes the information they give isn't the entire story. Thank you! :)

It's been a while since I was there, but I can give you some basic information. However, stuff may have changed (especially with transportation), and rules may have changed, so consider everything herein ballpark.

College program housing is very dormlike, in that they pack a lot of people into a relatively small space. There are three apartment complexes for the CP on property: Vista Way, the Commons, and Chatham Square. VW is the oldest. The Commons is mostly for International students, so you probably won't be there. CS is newer and nicer, but there's less stuff you can walk to (or at least there was; I don't know if new stuff has been built). There's a Walgreens right across the street from VW, which is very convenient.

If you have a 3-bedroom apartment, you will have 5 roommates. You don't get to pick your roommates. There are options for smaller apartments with fewer people, but they are more expensive. The rent is taken out every week directly from your paycheck.

Rooms are small. You'll have a closet that you share with your roommate. However, since you all will be working all the time, the apartment won't feel as crowded as it otherwise might. Often you will come home to a completely empty apartment.

Rules on the College Program are very strict, and Disney isn't kidding when they say that some offenses are terminable. They will fire you if you are caught with overnight guests (ie, non-CPs) in your apartment; they will fire you if you drink and are underage; they will fire you if you are late or absent too many times. You must notify Security when you have guests, and you can only sign in so many at a time.

Let's see, what else: there's coin laundry on site, there are pools, there are basketball and volleyball courts, there's a computer lab so you can check your e-mail.

Transportation: if you don't bring your own car, you will be dependent on Disney's buses for the CPs. You will be able to get anywhere on property on the buses. They also have regular shuttles to Wal-Mart so you can do grocery shopping, and they might have a shuttle to the local grocery store. (The Wal-Mart thing actually kind of pisses me off. I boycott Wal-Mart, and while I don't expect everyone to do that, the fact that Disney provides a free shuttle there basically means that almost all the CP students are a captive audience for Wal-Mart's benefit. Grrrr.)

What else would you like to know?