If you are using the Disney Dining Plan, I suggest you pay for breakfast out of pocket instead of using your entitlements. Breakfast is a bad value on the Disney Dining Plan.
If you are visiting a Quick-Service location for breakfast and want to use your entitlement, I wouldn’t. You need to spend at least $16.50 on your Quick-Service meal to break even on the cost of the dining plan. Your Quick-Service entitlement will only cover an entree and a beverage. Instead, pay out of pocket for your entree and use your Resort’s Refillable Mug for your beverage or just get some ice water.
If you are visiting a Table-Service location for breakfast, you need to spend at least $50.50 on your meal (entree, beverage and dessert). Ohana’s Best Friends Breakfast Featuring Lilo and Stitch is $42 per adult while Chef Mickey’s can run as high as $50 (making it an acceptable value for the Disney Dining Plan). Keep in mind that if you have more children than you have adults, you can still break even. Children are $33 at Chef Mickey’s and their cost per day of the dining plan is $30.51.
Kona Cafe is a Table-Service Restaurant that serves breakfast. If you ate there on the dining plan and ordered the most expensive entree ($16) along with a drink ($3.99) and you spent $19.99 but needed to spend $50.50 to break even. That is a massive loss.
The best meal to use your Table-Service entitlements on is dinner. It is the most expensive meal of the day and you will make a larger ‘profit’ on the cost of the Disney Dining Plan than you will with breakfast.
Consider your reservation choices carefully before deciding on them. You don’t want to lose money on the Disney Dining Plan!
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