IceePirate

On the plus side, it seems that Ohio's current hospitalizations are finally on a downward trend. We've gone the past 5 days without seeing a day to day increase, and it's been the most significant decrease from the mid thousands to what is now mid 800s. It also seems that deaths are trending downwards as well.

At the rate we're going, we are probably going to be pretty in line with Indiana's June 14th. Which would mean an opening date of July 1-4 even more likely.

Summary of reopening announcements from today: NOT TALKING ABOUT WATER PARKS AND AMUSEMENT PARKS: Lt Gov said that they are apart of the travel and tourism group, which hasn't been announced yet May 21 - Remaining aspects of campgrounds May 22 - Non-spectator horse racing (no casinos) May 26 - BMV as well as gyms, fitness centers, low or no contact sports, and local pools May 31 - Daycares/camps will be able to reopen with limited capacity. As always, these dates aren't set and can be pushed back if they aren't seeing the direction they want to go.

Could be installing a little bit of netting, that area is right above the tracks. I would be extremely surprised if they put trim brakes there

Cedar Fair already works with Accesso, so they would be the likely candidate.

Governor had a question on swimming pools, and said that they would be releasing info on summer activities. This would be in like with the Lt. Gov working on a summer activities group. They say they should have an announcement on Thursday. So maybe we will get the announcement we've been waiting for on Thursday.

There is some warehouses and landscaping back there, that explains some of it.

There's a decent chance I'll be selected for one of those random antibody tests, I hit a lot of fairly unique identifiers. Also for the cars, that's probably maintenance and other construction crew working on making the park more social-distancingable. Plus, they probably called a decent amount of their office staff back in, which is not a small number.

I'd imagine that the newer trains would also glide across the track easier, so that might actually increase the speed. But could you imagine an 18-21 row millennium/timberliner lol Would give such different rides in the back and front. I could see them doing it on racer or beast if they plan to keep either around for another 20 years. The initial capital investment would be quite large, but the cost savings would likely pay for themselves within a couple years. Cedar Fair has really focused on cutting expensive rides to run in recent years, so this could be a cheap way to upgrade their current rides and reduce the variable costs of maintenance that they incur each year. Who knows, maybe with Beast, they could do a little bit of track reprofiling on the first section right after the first tunnel. That's always been the weakest part of the ride IMO.

Yeah, but it's 1/3 capacity, and Disney runs most of their parks at about 50-60% on average. So it's not too surprising to see that

Plexiglass in outdoor queue lines would get super hot super fast, couldn't do it unless you installed some sort of air circulation like a fan...which defeats the purpose of the glass.

Bars can also open too, which means that every POS in the state will be able to open May 21st except large places like stadiums or...Kings Island. I can't really see what the next step is besides to allow larger gatherings and amusement, so I imagine at our current rate, we will see another announcement on the 18th or 19th which will allow the next stage to open on the 29th or June 1st. Just my 2 cents

I actually really like this system, if people like me go to the park very frequently then they can do so. People who don't and want a few days in a row can do so as well. It actively discourages people from booking say, a whole month at a time. Would likely have to be first come first serve as limiting the total number of reservations you can make would violate their own terms & conditions. They might be able to make a limit of say, 5 (with exceptions by calling) reservations at once, which would allow for other days to fill up too.

Interesting, I wonder what's to stop people from reserving a spot and then just not showing up for said spot. Or maybe reserve a whole month at a time. They would likely let people reserve a couple of days in the park to allow for people making overnight or multi-day trips, but what's the limit? Definitely be interesting to watch for.

One thing that I would be really curious to see is how many other diseases kinda die out for a while, or don't come back as severe. Social distancing and isolation doesn't only help covid, but it helps things like the regular flu, common cold, pink eye, ect.

Closing the waterpark would reduce the overall maximum attendance of the park. Just keep that in mind. But in all reality, I doubt it would have an effect

I think I remember the park reached capacity in 2015, they actually stayed open an extra hour that night. And I do remember that night. I think I remember seeing 67,000 total guests. But that includes guests who left for the day already.

Park capacity is right around 60-70,000. The average attendance on a normal weekday during the regular season is 22-25,000 with Saturdays being 30-35,000. Highest I saw the park attendance was 58,000 on Labor Day.

If you feel so inclined, ask the governor directly. The more of us that ask, the more likely we might get a faster response. https://governor.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/governor/contact/contact-us

What notice was this?

I've actually seen it stop once or twice last year. Was kinda cool to see the MCBR engaged fully. Bet those corkscrews were pretty great.

It's only an assumption that they're able to reopen. The state of Ohio won't release their plan until Monday, so a lot of businesses are just guessing that they are going to be able to reopen.

I worked in F&B from 2015 to 2017 starting as an associate in Coney Carts, moving to Hank's the next season whilst being promoted to stand supervisor, and the spend a bit of time running Rivertown funnel the following season. I've worked every food location except: International Restaurant (never opened to the public when I worked there), Panda Express, Cinnabon, Graeters, Tom & Chee (Guy who runs it is fantastic), Chik-Fil-A, Starbucks, and Soak City Subway. This includes the food stands at Timberwolf, Cornerstone, and almost every cart besides the ones in Planet Snoopy. I've also worked at Icee Mix it Up which was torn down to build the Autos You might be excited now, but it does get to be a bit of a drag after a while, but keep up that good energy for as long as you can! Extra nice with food being paid the best in the part for starting associates...except maybe the park sweeps...hmm... Anyways, I got to know a lot of things while working there, and got to know a lot of great people. While I cannot violate the ToS of the website, I'm more than happy to answer any questions that you might have about your upcoming position, or any other questions you or anyone else might have about my knowledge of things. I also did a bit of hiring/interviewing of associates as well, which was pretty fun to be honest. For the latest night I've spent cause I think that was a question when I skimmed through this, I left the park at 5am on a random Saturday midnight close. Not exactly sure why I stayed so late, probably just cleaning and prepping with a bud I worked there with. The other question I think I saw was about Feasthaus. It's really not that bad of a stand, just big. I actually preferred working at the larger stands since they have more stuff which makes it easier to manage the stand. From an associates perspective, so long as it isn't carts, your experience will likely be pretty similar in most stands. Also for @RedRacer unless you're 15 and can only work until a set time under state law, your schedule is going to be pretty flexible with some lates, earlies, and swings mixed in all in the same week most likely. I think they try to make it consistent, but once staffing starts to get a bit tight around the middle of the season, it can't really be helped. Do be glad you didn't pick Feasthaus to start your season out though, it's not the most fun place to be around at the beginning of the year.

Having a secured bond is also another way to reduce the interest rate that they would pay on the bond. The bond is less risky and therefore would garner a lower risk level. I forget exactly what the order of payout is if a company goes bankrupt, but I think it's the following: 1. Employees 2. Taxes 3. Accounts payable in the form of asset purchases or other such items 4. Loans and other debt held by the company 5. Stockholders with first dibs given to those who have high grade stock if a company has several forms. Any remaining amount should be split evenly among whatever party the money stops at, so if they only have $10 million or so after they pay employees and owe a $50 million tax bill, they'd give all $10mil to the governments split based on what state/country the tax liability is in. This being said, I believe that there is less than .1% chance of Cedar Fair going bankrupt from this unless the virus were to cause closures into the 2021 season.

The determination on whether the parks will open or not comes down to if the operations team believes that a park believes that their marginal revenue will be greater than the marginal cost that it would take to open the park versus keep it closed. Due to a park the size of Kings Island for example, you have quite a lot of fixed costs that get added on to the fixed costs they already have when they open. In order to open, the park needs to have a minimum amount of spend on things like food & bev, additional staffing, electricity and other utilities. These types of costs are both fixed and variable as while they need to purchase some food & bev to open the park, the amount they need is small and can be scaled up when the park expects bigger crowds turning it more into a variable cost than a fixed cost. Going to fundamentals of economics, in order for a business to open their doors, marginal revenue needs to be equal to or greater than the marginal cost for opening. The above part was more referencing other confusion I saw here, but I do know Cedar Fair has an average per cap spending number for each park which includes passholders and regular attendance. Also, thanks for the info on the bond issuance, I've been looking to buy some bonds and I think these will be just the ones I want to buy!