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Wonder if more of a “point” system would work. You purchase a plan based on number of points pr day, 1-4 with no time limit, and have CLASSIC items, SIGNATURE items, and PREMIUM dining experiences. Classic items are 1 point, Signature are 2 and Premium are 4 or 2+ half the cost of the experience. Let people decide how to use these points through the day. If you are at the park less and only want a burger each time you come, buy the 1 point and buy other food on days you stay longer. If you come a lot of longer days, or always want more elevated food, buy the 2 or 4 and eat more, or better each time. If you want that International Restaurant Peanuts Breakfast Buffet, you know you are using all your points for that one experience and will be paying for any other food that day, but as Don said, make each of these tiers truly reflective of their “price”.

Again, how is going to the park just to eat abusing it? How is getting it to go abusing it? Scan in, use dining plan, wait 4 hours, use again. That’s the policy. 

Right, anyone using the dining plan is within the current rules.  The computer system will not allow anyone to go outside of those rules. However, there are people using it to the extent that there could be changes forthcoming to the plan.   There are people that go to the park just to eat and go so far as to go there and carry the food out.  I have seen it myself.  Tower Topics reported this week that KI had someone stationed outside the gate counting the people taking food out of the park.     The indicates that the park/company is unhappy with the way the plan is working currently.     This company is infamous for bait-and-switch and changing terms after purchase, so don't be shocked at anything they do.......

To start with, have the equipment to keep the food warm.    Those warming tables that they have only warm the bottom of the pans.  Most of the food at the park is lukewarm or even cold. I just don't find anything unique that would make me want to wait to get the park to eat it.   Most of the food there amounts to fast food items that can be purchased down the road at better quality.   The menu at (at what should be) the "premier" sit down restaurant is a great example,   Hamburgers, BLT, salad and a few other things with the one option of tater tots.  Then there are locations like Coney Bar-b-que using lower priced ingredients instead of the best bar-b-que ingredients like brisket and ribs. This isn't going to be fine dining, but it should be better quality and more interesting menu that fast food places down the road.   Parks like Hershey, BGW (although their food is severely overpriced) and Knoebels come to mind as far as parks that have a good variety of more unique items on the menu.  

They’ve backed themselves into a corner. Season passholders now expect this dining plan.   Take it away and they lose customers   Keep it, and they lose profit and are forced to offer lower quality food     The plan is not generating as much profit for them because of the amount of times most past holders use it.    There’s no other chain offering a dining plan like this.  Hershey does have a dining plan, but it’s only for the summer.   That seems to indicate it’s not a profitable business plan.