It really depends on the restaurant and the character, though! I was perfectly fine as Timon at the Swan/Dolphin, because it was a small, uncrowded restaurant (half the tables were business guests, anyway, who didn't especially want to interact with a character), but Pooh at the Crystal Palace was very hard. The kids wouldn't stay in their seats to wait for me; they'd run around and then hang off my arms or grab at me. I learned to scrape them off like barnacles. Also, Pooh's lack of visibility and the size of CP was a problem; I got lost a lot the first week, and had to do the "paw in mouth, I am a bear of Very Little Brain" routine until my attendant found me and guided me to where I was supposed to be.EeyoresButterfly wrote:Most restauarants only have one or two attendants at most, we can pretty much handle ourselves at the restaurants since we are not tethered to one place, and the servers are pretty good about helping us as needed (not that that is their job). If we had an attendant for every character in the restaurant, nobody would be able to move around, and it would certainly take away form the experience. It's very rare that we need intervening since most of the guests are remarkably well behaved. It helps that they're sitting down when we approach. :)
The 'munks at Chef Mickey's were easier, because they're more mobile than Pooh and have vastly better visibility. I never really had problems there. (Lots of kids tried to give me food, though, which never happened at the Crystal Palace... not sure what was up with that.)
