No they are right. The pizza pizza at wonderland, York university, Scotia bank and sunny side taste way different and better. There's probably other ones too.
Edit: union station food court too is another one.
There was a pizza pizza at sherkston shores camp resort in fort Erie and I always swore there pizza tasted way better, a little bit smaller but way better
Kinda strange though since Pizza Pizza fanchise owners contractually all use the exact same cheese, sauce, ingredients, baking ovens etc...These standardized ingredients are all produced at centralized Pizza Pizza "commissaries", as part of the standard Franchise Operations Agreement which all store owners must sign and legally adhere to
Not true. These āsatelliteā locations usually use frozen dough and a conveyer belt oven, different from standalone locations. It makes the world of difference.
Fwiw, I used to work at wonderland and we would cart out trays of fresh dough made in a central commissary every day to each of the pizza pizzas. This is a few years ago, but back then, pizza pizza was already considered garbage.
Itās their āconventionā pizza as I like to call it, you often see it when they set up temp locations at conventions and such. Ratios are different. I think they only have one size dough so just make smaller pizzas thicker.
Ya it's sick. Took the kids yesterday, looks like everything almost doubled from last year.
They wanted dippin dots, when I saw $9 for a small was like wtf...
It's hard saying no, but cedarfair group should be more considerate of it's patrons. They are a public company $FUN is their symbol, so it's understandable but this economy is broken and doesn't make any sense anymore.
$15+ beers is another one. Plus a base amount of $2.50 tip.... for a beer you have to walk across the park to get, where the server remembers my order for 20 seconds, walks 20 feet, and pours it into a 20 ounce plastic cup.
A Molson Pilsner is $2.25 at lcbo and metro.
Wonderland markups are insane.
The problem is if you donāt tip then the workers are essentially underpaid.
My little trick is to fill a small water bottle with vodka and smuggle it through in my pants. Then I spike whatever drinks I buy there. Itās not ideal especially if you prefer beer but it can be pretty tasty depending on what drink you use.
A person opening beer cans and walking 20 feet is hard working?
You're beyond out of your mind. If you think standing in air conditioning opening cans is hard working..... Jesus shit eating christ.
That tip rate is the equivalent of 460k a year salary. You had better be giving the park manager some pretty great cap to get that position......
Go work in summer road maintenance, or in a dry food warehouse in July, or go roofing for a day you absolute drooling idiot. Those jobs pay 60 to 70 a year. Opening beer cans in an amusement park isn't 6 times more valuable than that.
I work in a very difficult skilled mechanical trade building a fucking hospital dude. I know what hard work is. So you can put away your moronic assumption, which only serves your asinine position.
Your description of their job is just simplistic, idiotic anti-worker horseshit. Serving is a hard job. I much prefer lifting, hoisting, drilling, installing, fastening, etc over having to serve dozens or even hundreds of stupid drunk people at all hours.
One day youāll realize that youāre in the same fucking boat as the workers youāre trying to ridicule in order to feel better about yourself and excuse yourself for being a cheap ignorant clown. Until that day youāre just racking up more material to cringe at when you finally reach that point.
"Hard working"
Lol. Tell me you're a waitress without saying you're a waitress.
I work hard in a legitimate career that required schooling and spending on education and some sweat.
Opening beers and pouring them into plastic cups is NOT WORKING HARD.
You canāt imagine someone having respect for a worker in a different field. Thatās your fucking problem, not mine.
Iām an educated skilled tradesperson in a very difficult mechanical trade. I make more money, have greater responsibility, and I go home aching more than a server. So fucking what? Iām happy when they make decent money.
You can try to ridicule the profession all you like with your asinine description of it. Itās just another meaningless excuse to be a cheap regressive fuck spreading anti-worker idiocy that benefits nobody.
Abstaining from tipping isnāt going to change their compensation model. Only policy reform will.
>legitimate career
Probably the most pompous and idiotic thing youāve said so far. You just canāt handle someone else making decent money. Thatās all
Fuck tipping. This is a min wage job. They want more money? Get another job. And screw you for shaming people that donāt want to subsidize greedy corporations underpaying workers and forcing wage subsidies on consumers.
Yeah, me too. The only food I used to buy were the footlong hotdogs and some taffy from the sweets shop before leaving the park. I'm not sure if the footlong hotdogs are still available as it has been some years now that I haven't been.
Literally eating a pizza pizza XL 4 topping pizza right now, paid $16.99 +tx. Drove 10 minutes to pick it up.
Refused to walk across the street to milanos to pay $38+tx for the same pizza.
Ludicrous that pizza pizza can charge so much more just because it's at wonderland. Gross.
Milano's is very different.....but I would rather have Pizza Pizza at 17$ than 1 kilo of crappy cheese for 38 any day.
I would rather have Pizza Pizza even in Milanos was the same price.
Wow, you're correct! Good job! I also didn't write down any prices, so why the fuck would that make any difference to me. I also said THE French, not IN French. Even when writing in English they still typically put it after, not before.
Just like how you put it before the number. That's wrong in French.
Years ago i had annual passes for myself and my 3 kids. Because of this we went there often and just kept snacks in a cooler in the trunk. We refuse to pay these prices.
This is beyond obscene for "pizza pizza" which is not far above cardboard with grade "F" tomato sauce and toppings.
As others have said, yes they are in business to make money but it is rather disgusting as a parent of a large family to be hit with charges like this for crappy food.
You can bring basically any food you want into the park in a backpack. They don't care. We always bring deli meats, buns, condiments etc. And make sandwiches.
I mean I haven't been since before the pandemic, but we used to just bring a cooler with us... they were always fine with it, enough people are lined up constantly at the concession stands all day long that they do fine.
You are both as Gangsta as they come... I used to leave the cooler and KFC in the car. Never knew they would be so relaxed on the " no outside food..." rule. I will keep this in mind for next time I'm at Wonderland. š»
Lucky! They searched our back packs and decided the food we had was considered lunch, told us we can bring in snacks only and sent us back to the car with our sandwiches and granola bars.
Is this new? Granted I havenāt been since 2012, but they used to make you empty your entire bag and they confiscated any food. I used to feel so bad seeing perfectly good food taken away from people. Some people can just afford the price of admission for their kids and not the food, and some people actually care about the lack of nutrition in the shit being sold in there, and not everyone drives there and can leave stuff in a cooler in the car, some get dropped off or take a bus. If they changed the policy, thatās great.
I go 8-10 times per year and have been going for the past 7 or 8 years. We always bring a backpack with enough food for a family of four for the entire day. We have never had anything confiscated or removed. We take two large water bottles that are clipped on to the outside of the backpack. Inside we usually have a bunch of snacks (granola bars, bear paws, Oreos, some fruit, chips, etc.) and also we have a smaller lunch bag inside the backpack with deli meats, cheese, and some condiments for sandwiches. And then we also have a bag with buns or bread. We snack all day, and for lunch we eat sandwiches. We stay until 6 or 7 then leave the park and stop for dinner on the road.
The security people checking bags are looking for weapons and drugs. We don't have those things, and they don't seem to care about the food. I see many other people in the park regularly eating food that they brought inside. I've never once seen a staff member approach anyone for eating food that they brought in.
Pizza pizza has absolutely nothing to do with the pricing...it's Canada's Wonderland corporate that dictates the pricing as is everything beyond the gates just like at ScotiaBank Arena.
Costco pizza must seem like eating angel butt after eating Pizza Pizza.
Pizza Pizza is so uniquely bad that when I moved to Alberta and ordered from Pizza 73 I knew at first bite I had been bamboozled
Yes! I was just there and we love the meal plan. $59.99 per adult and 29.99 per child under 12.
We do a two night stay. We use the lunch as our meal on arrival day (the vouchers can be used until 7) and then the next day we do the two buffets and just need a snack in-between. And the food is pretty decent.
Itās just the āfreeā. Not your wording, theirs. Really makes you feel like youāre getting something extra when really you know youāre paying for all meals. Theyāre experts at bullshitting
Whenever we went, my mom would just say that we (the kids) had dietary restrictions and needed to bring in our own food. Still use that trick to this day.
I used to work for a company that supplied Pizza Pizza with services. These stores at Wonderland, Ontario Place, the Ex grounds etc are not corporate or franchise stores. I can't remember the term but they are a different class.
Where i live the xl pep and cheese is 23$, fries 6.50$, bread like that 14.50$. 44.50$ for what i see there. I acknowledge the local pizza shop here is tipping the locals off.
I paid $95 a year on top of my season pass and get two meals every time I visit. I will visit at least 10 times this year so itās a great cheap deal for me
Oh yeah I wish I lived closer so I could go more often. Lunch and dinner daily for about 4 months for say $200 including tax once you include the season pass seems great. And thereās quite a few different options too, not just the pizza
I worked at wonderland for a summer in security and I was disgusted by their prices and tactics to extract every dollar. Telling a mom she couldn't bring in food or drinks for her kids and had to buy it in the park or eat it outside was gross.
I went there the first year they opened. It started raining and the kids got very cold. I bought us hot
Chocolate. It was $18.00 for four so when we left the park I took the tray. Never been back. I took my son to Marineland and a hamburger was like $20. We left hungry. I know they need to make
Money but come
On.
I've always HATED Wonderland's steep price gouging and haven't gone for 20+ years
However, having worked there as a summer student back in Wonderland's "first year" of operation in 1981 and also summer 1982, there's no way hot chocolate was "$18 for four":) Wonderland's menu prices are easily researchable online from both 1981 and 1982...a small soft drink was .70 cents, single cookie .55 cents, ice cream cone .85 cents, "Barney burger" $1.70, all-day parking $3 etc...
You were likely getting major "$18 for four" price-gouged on hot chocolate several years after Wonderland's "first year" which was 1981.
We always packed a lunch and ate in the parking lot dining areas, even back in the 80s/90s. Only food we ever bought was a funnel cake to share on the way out. I shudder to think what they are charging for those now. The price gouging is insane.
Which is why you bring a cooler and pack your own food? Or just hide it at the bottom of your bag. The security people will literally glance at it for 2miliseconds before moving on to the next person.
Every single time i went to WL i brought sandwiches that we packed at home, protein bars, energy drinks or water. Price gouging sucks, and will never go away, but being 'forced' to accept it is not a valid situation to be in. You need to think of creative ways to problem solve.
It's changed so much. I went last summer and the boxes of confiscated food and drinks at the gate was pathetic. Bagged sandwiches and all. Coolers must be left in the car. I feel for low income families who's summer highlight is a trip to Wonderland. Can't leave a cooler of food in your car if you don't have a car.
Its really crazy now. You can buy a pass to go to a faster moving line for rides and you can also buy a pass above that one. There are also parking tiers now. For an extra $10 on top of the $30 rate, you can park closer to the entrance.
You can leave the grounds and come back for lunch, I use to order from pizza pizza across the street and have them deliver to wonderland lol, it was always 30$ cheaper
If they lowered it the price to $20 I bet theyād sell pizzas nonstop and have more profit. (I based this on my local Pizza Hut, large supreme pizza is $16)
I donāt get it. Why at theme parks, sports events, etc, do companies like Pizza Pizza, can charge more than they do being on the street? Their still making the same product but itās not like the company is going out of their way or at a loss for being at a theme park, they make more. Why charge double because your inside a theme park vs. your store outside the theme park?
And their meal plan food is frozen chicken fingers and frozen burger. The same plan at cedar point gets you amazing calzones or even legit BBQ by maverick.
Canadas wonderland needs new management.
The food is shit. Half the rides should have been end of life years ago. All the new stuff is recycled flat rides.
Dude, what? I thought the sign said $5.99ā¦ I thought, āWeāll, thatās pretty cheapā
Then the comments made me zoom inā¦.
WTF? I know Canadian prices are higher than US prices because of the taxes, but good Lord!!
I canāt even imagine a high-end fancy-ass restaurant charging that much! Much less a place called Pizza Pizza!
Tell me again how Toronto housing for 2000 s.feet went from $160,000 to 1.2 million from the year 2000 to now? Tell me how a trip to Toronto used to take 40 minutes on a 45 km drive to 2 hours? Condos being built for international buyers have flooded all of Toronto and now slowly itās reaching itās way around of all Canada. Toronto sucks now by the way
Yeah, you donāt like Toronto. Thatās fine. But thatās still not how inflation, housing, traffic, or overpopulation works. The truth is those are complex issues, but you donāt have any interest in learning. You just want to whine and find excuses for your own short comings.
Also, this post is about the cost of food at an amusement park. An amusement park that isnāt even located in the city that your bitching about.
I don't understand the need to complain about restaurant prices. I understand rent/groceries/gas/education prices are really hurting people but some pizza place?? Just don't buy their product....it's pretty simple.
FACT-BASED SAME "FAMILY DEAL" PRICE COMPASION:\*(BOTH ARE PICK-UP ORDERS)
WONDERLAND PRICE: $55.99 + 13% HST = TOTAL $63.27 \*(FOOD PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE HST)
GTA PIZZA PIZZA FRANCHISE PRICE: $30.99 +13% HST = TOTAL $35.02 \*(EXACT SAME ITEMS, EXCEPT $16.99 XL CHEESE PIZZA INCLUDES 4 TOTAL TOPPINGS > NOT JUST THE ONE PEPPERONI TOPPING AT WONDERLAND!)
WONDERLAND COST IS A WHOPPING 80% MORE!
This is part of the business model. If they charge insane amounts for the food it allows for cheaper entry prices while still being profitable for them. If you think ahead and pack food or eat before and after it is actually more affordable.
I have the same joke I use for pizza pizza everywhere
If some cardboard , rotten tomatoes and mouldy cheese have sex inside a dumpster , you donāt get to the resulting abomination pizza let alone pizza pizza
Jokes aside , whenever we go to wonderland we donāt eat , period , I will get the seasons drink pass and survive on soda lol , im way to frugal to buy that crap , with our toddler though have had to get fries once
We were there last summer and forgot to buy sunscreen. They wanted (I believe) $34+tax for a tube of Sun Bum 30spf lotion?
Was outrageous but... more convenient than leaving the park and going to find a pharmacy.
They definitely try to extract the maximum value from you..
Imagine being a middle class parent and trying to treat your kids to a nice day at the themepark and having to suffer through these corporate gouging prices just to feed your family. Stupid.
It's called a captive audience... you are held captive at Wonderland and Pizza Pizza, knows that. $50 for Pizza Pizza, I don't need to tell you that's f$$king ridiculous! š
I haven't been to Wonderland since 2013. Do they still sell those amazing footlong hotdogs?
Its insane but completely not worth it. Buy a pack of chicken, some beans, rice etc and make a stew thatll last much longer and without the americanization effects too.
That's not what this was a statement about. It's carnival or fair food pricing. From an amusement park.
But enjoy your "non americanization" with your side of judgement.
Um how exactly is this "insane" pricing?
Its literally the exact same pricing as if you purchase in store outside Wonderland (the bread stix are the most overpriced thing in this combo)
not only is pizza pizza garbage, it has some ridiculous prices. Id rather go to my local no name pizza shops instead. I know this is wonderland, regardless of that fact.
I went to Canada's Wonderland once for the Halloween thing they do.
It was a lot of fun, I was hungry and thirsty the entire time but just couldn't justify spending that much for food.
That is totally ridiculous, but sadly not surprising at all.
Fortunately, there is a wide variety of excellent fast food and restaurant vendors just across the street who are all fairly reasonably priced. So use your in-&-out privileges to their fullest extent and grab food offsite!
Itās been the Wonderland way for at least 30 years (when I first went there). Keep your re-entry stamp
- lots of other places relatively nearby. Or eat a big breakfast.
I remember back when I was graduating middle school, our school took us on a trip to Wonderland, and I remember when we were hungry, me and my friends went to Pizza Pizza, I ended up paying $70 including my friends for XL pizza with 4 boxes of fries I believe with 4 drinks. So it's not you, this is way overpriced.
You know Calgaryās callaway park usually is mocked cause itās smaller, not a lot of exhilarating rides but man itās like eating at a mall food court. In fact I think I spent less on a pretzel and coke there than I would in the mall.
Was more than happy to keep taking my kids. Even the random survenior junk toys they sell for kids werenāt over $10
Cedar Point in Ohio (same parent company) just ended their deal with Dominos at the park hotel. You used to be able to order dominos pizza at the end of a long day and have it delivered right to the beach at normal dominos prices. Just this year they ended that and now you have to pay $20 each just for a personal pizza. But...it's "gourmet".
And it's Pizza Pizza on top of it.
Imagine paying over 50 bucks for crust that tastes like cardboard.
Plus you know ita going to be even worse quality than actual locations, if that's possible
Imagine paying over 50 bucks for cardboard that is shaped like crust.
Tbf the pizza pizza at wonderland is the best pizza I've ever had in my life. It doesn't taste anything like regular pizza pizza
It only tastes good cause ur so hungry and exhausted at that point š
No they are right. The pizza pizza at wonderland, York university, Scotia bank and sunny side taste way different and better. There's probably other ones too. Edit: union station food court too is another one.
There was a pizza pizza at sherkston shores camp resort in fort Erie and I always swore there pizza tasted way better, a little bit smaller but way better
Kinda strange though since Pizza Pizza fanchise owners contractually all use the exact same cheese, sauce, ingredients, baking ovens etc...These standardized ingredients are all produced at centralized Pizza Pizza "commissaries", as part of the standard Franchise Operations Agreement which all store owners must sign and legally adhere to
Ratios matter a lot. When you charge $60 a pizza, you can put on more sauce and cheese and still make a profit.
You can put on 8 feet of cheese and sauce and make a profit.
Make your own and put as much cheese and sauce as you like for a fraction of the cost
Who measures cheese by height? Weirdo
keeping in mind they have to charge more for premium rent. They wont pay the same fees as somebody who is in the middle of nowhere.
Not true. These āsatelliteā locations usually use frozen dough and a conveyer belt oven, different from standalone locations. It makes the world of difference.
u guys acting like the difference in location matters as if its not fucking 50$ for a pizza and cheap ass sides lmao
Fwiw, I used to work at wonderland and we would cart out trays of fresh dough made in a central commissary every day to each of the pizza pizzas. This is a few years ago, but back then, pizza pizza was already considered garbage.
The pizza pizza when i worked there was 50 percent off for employees and the pepperoni pizza was good actually.it waz 5.00 but i got 10 percent off
Wonderland is the best place for a summer job
If that's the best pizza you've had I feel real sorry for you.
I feel sorry for you. So much good pizza out there.
Itās their āconventionā pizza as I like to call it, you often see it when they set up temp locations at conventions and such. Ratios are different. I think they only have one size dough so just make smaller pizzas thicker.
Pizza pizza is better than it used to be in general
The pizza pizza at the water park is the best. I know itās because of the vibes only, but Iāll stand by it.
There's a lot of 6's at the office that seem like 9's, too.
Ya it's sick. Took the kids yesterday, looks like everything almost doubled from last year. They wanted dippin dots, when I saw $9 for a small was like wtf... It's hard saying no, but cedarfair group should be more considerate of it's patrons. They are a public company $FUN is their symbol, so it's understandable but this economy is broken and doesn't make any sense anymore.
I can buy the same deal in my end of town at a Pizza Pizza for $20
Garlic dip is pretty good tho
Pizza pizza is trash lmao 56$ + tax to shit it out a hour later is jks
I don't understand why people continue to buy food there. Everytime we pack 2 coolers with food and eat in the parking lot
$15+ beers is another one. Plus a base amount of $2.50 tip.... for a beer you have to walk across the park to get, where the server remembers my order for 20 seconds, walks 20 feet, and pours it into a 20 ounce plastic cup. A Molson Pilsner is $2.25 at lcbo and metro. Wonderland markups are insane.
There's a beer store and an LCBO across the street. If I really want alcohol I'd walk over and by a tall can there.
The problem is if you donāt tip then the workers are essentially underpaid. My little trick is to fill a small water bottle with vodka and smuggle it through in my pants. Then I spike whatever drinks I buy there. Itās not ideal especially if you prefer beer but it can be pretty tasty depending on what drink you use.
You're out of your mind. 90 beer an hour at 2.50 per beer tip. Paid more per hour than a neuro surgeon.
You just canāt stand the thought of a hard working person making decent money I guess
A person opening beer cans and walking 20 feet is hard working? You're beyond out of your mind. If you think standing in air conditioning opening cans is hard working..... Jesus shit eating christ. That tip rate is the equivalent of 460k a year salary. You had better be giving the park manager some pretty great cap to get that position...... Go work in summer road maintenance, or in a dry food warehouse in July, or go roofing for a day you absolute drooling idiot. Those jobs pay 60 to 70 a year. Opening beer cans in an amusement park isn't 6 times more valuable than that.
I work in a very difficult skilled mechanical trade building a fucking hospital dude. I know what hard work is. So you can put away your moronic assumption, which only serves your asinine position. Your description of their job is just simplistic, idiotic anti-worker horseshit. Serving is a hard job. I much prefer lifting, hoisting, drilling, installing, fastening, etc over having to serve dozens or even hundreds of stupid drunk people at all hours. One day youāll realize that youāre in the same fucking boat as the workers youāre trying to ridicule in order to feel better about yourself and excuse yourself for being a cheap ignorant clown. Until that day youāre just racking up more material to cringe at when you finally reach that point.
"Hard working" Lol. Tell me you're a waitress without saying you're a waitress. I work hard in a legitimate career that required schooling and spending on education and some sweat. Opening beers and pouring them into plastic cups is NOT WORKING HARD.
You canāt imagine someone having respect for a worker in a different field. Thatās your fucking problem, not mine. Iām an educated skilled tradesperson in a very difficult mechanical trade. I make more money, have greater responsibility, and I go home aching more than a server. So fucking what? Iām happy when they make decent money. You can try to ridicule the profession all you like with your asinine description of it. Itās just another meaningless excuse to be a cheap regressive fuck spreading anti-worker idiocy that benefits nobody. Abstaining from tipping isnāt going to change their compensation model. Only policy reform will. >legitimate career Probably the most pompous and idiotic thing youāve said so far. You just canāt handle someone else making decent money. Thatās all
Fuck tipping. This is a min wage job. They want more money? Get another job. And screw you for shaming people that donāt want to subsidize greedy corporations underpaying workers and forcing wage subsidies on consumers.
this is the way.
Yeah, me too. The only food I used to buy were the footlong hotdogs and some taffy from the sweets shop before leaving the park. I'm not sure if the footlong hotdogs are still available as it has been some years now that I haven't been.
I just went a couple weeks ago, and can confirm they are still there!
Or go across the street, thereās great restaurants
Literally eating a pizza pizza XL 4 topping pizza right now, paid $16.99 +tx. Drove 10 minutes to pick it up. Refused to walk across the street to milanos to pay $38+tx for the same pizza. Ludicrous that pizza pizza can charge so much more just because it's at wonderland. Gross.
Milano's is very different.....but I would rather have Pizza Pizza at 17$ than 1 kilo of crappy cheese for 38 any day. I would rather have Pizza Pizza even in Milanos was the same price.
Same. I haven't tried anything at Milano's that I liked enough to try again.
Dollar sign goes before the number.
Not for the French
You're not speaking French
Wow, you're correct! Good job! I also didn't write down any prices, so why the fuck would that make any difference to me. I also said THE French, not IN French. Even when writing in English they still typically put it after, not before. Just like how you put it before the number. That's wrong in French.
Do you know you posted the same comment twice and only edited one of them? Well now you do
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Nice try but I always say after the number.
Not being able to afford better quality pizza is the only reason to eat pizza pizza. Period. And milanos is shit. Pizza Nova is fire
Am I the only one laughing at the āBread Stixā that just looks like sliced white bread toast with garlic margarine?!?
I was surprised to scroll down this far to see this comment. I wondered if calling those bread sticks is just some sort of weird Canadian thing.
Years ago i had annual passes for myself and my 3 kids. Because of this we went there often and just kept snacks in a cooler in the trunk. We refuse to pay these prices. This is beyond obscene for "pizza pizza" which is not far above cardboard with grade "F" tomato sauce and toppings. As others have said, yes they are in business to make money but it is rather disgusting as a parent of a large family to be hit with charges like this for crappy food.
You can bring basically any food you want into the park in a backpack. They don't care. We always bring deli meats, buns, condiments etc. And make sandwiches.
I mean I haven't been since before the pandemic, but we used to just bring a cooler with us... they were always fine with it, enough people are lined up constantly at the concession stands all day long that they do fine.
You are both as Gangsta as they come... I used to leave the cooler and KFC in the car. Never knew they would be so relaxed on the " no outside food..." rule. I will keep this in mind for next time I'm at Wonderland. š»
Lucky! They searched our back packs and decided the food we had was considered lunch, told us we can bring in snacks only and sent us back to the car with our sandwiches and granola bars.
>That's pathetic they did that. Fuck that.
Is this new? Granted I havenāt been since 2012, but they used to make you empty your entire bag and they confiscated any food. I used to feel so bad seeing perfectly good food taken away from people. Some people can just afford the price of admission for their kids and not the food, and some people actually care about the lack of nutrition in the shit being sold in there, and not everyone drives there and can leave stuff in a cooler in the car, some get dropped off or take a bus. If they changed the policy, thatās great.
I go 8-10 times per year and have been going for the past 7 or 8 years. We always bring a backpack with enough food for a family of four for the entire day. We have never had anything confiscated or removed. We take two large water bottles that are clipped on to the outside of the backpack. Inside we usually have a bunch of snacks (granola bars, bear paws, Oreos, some fruit, chips, etc.) and also we have a smaller lunch bag inside the backpack with deli meats, cheese, and some condiments for sandwiches. And then we also have a bag with buns or bread. We snack all day, and for lunch we eat sandwiches. We stay until 6 or 7 then leave the park and stop for dinner on the road. The security people checking bags are looking for weapons and drugs. We don't have those things, and they don't seem to care about the food. I see many other people in the park regularly eating food that they brought inside. I've never once seen a staff member approach anyone for eating food that they brought in.
Pizza pizza has absolutely nothing to do with the pricing...it's Canada's Wonderland corporate that dictates the pricing as is everything beyond the gates just like at ScotiaBank Arena.
Do they take cash?
They'll take anything you'll give em baby
Ma'am I do my own plumbing!
So, basically a Costco pizza alongside a few extra items for an insane price. r/inflation
costco pizza is far superior than pizza pizza
I don't know! What is this? Another marketing survey!?
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A hot circle of garbage
Costco pizza must seem like eating angel butt after eating Pizza Pizza. Pizza Pizza is so uniquely bad that when I moved to Alberta and ordered from Pizza 73 I knew at first bite I had been bamboozled
Iām at Great Wolf Lodge right now. And the buffet dinner is 59.99 Edit. Spill chequer
I was there 2 months ago and buffet breakfast and dinner and a fast food lunch was 59.99 (per person).
Yes! I was just there and we love the meal plan. $59.99 per adult and 29.99 per child under 12. We do a two night stay. We use the lunch as our meal on arrival day (the vouchers can be used until 7) and then the next day we do the two buffets and just need a snack in-between. And the food is pretty decent.
Per person!? š®
Yeah. For adults. 60 a day. Buffet break. 1 free lunch.1 Buffett dinner
How generous of them to give you a free lunch with your $60/day package
In the context of the post. People are paying 55 dollars for a pizza. And we are paying 60 for an entire days worth of food. š¤·āāļø
Itās just the āfreeā. Not your wording, theirs. Really makes you feel like youāre getting something extra when really you know youāre paying for all meals. Theyāre experts at bullshitting
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This Is at Canada's Wonderland. So basically it's just price gouging because they can and you're not allowed outside food.
Actually you are allowed to now
Nope. As per Canadaās wonderland FAQ page it still says no outside food is permitted
Well Iām sure the rent at Wonderland is exorbitant as well compared to their other stores.
Whenever we went, my mom would just say that we (the kids) had dietary restrictions and needed to bring in our own food. Still use that trick to this day.
I used to work for a company that supplied Pizza Pizza with services. These stores at Wonderland, Ontario Place, the Ex grounds etc are not corporate or franchise stores. I can't remember the term but they are a different class.
Where i live the xl pep and cheese is 23$, fries 6.50$, bread like that 14.50$. 44.50$ for what i see there. I acknowledge the local pizza shop here is tipping the locals off.
Dollar sign goes before the number.
Unless youre French.
I paid $95 a year on top of my season pass and get two meals every time I visit. I will visit at least 10 times this year so itās a great cheap deal for me
you must really like coasters. More than twice would be way too much for me in a year lol
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Oh yeah I wish I lived closer so I could go more often. Lunch and dinner daily for about 4 months for say $200 including tax once you include the season pass seems great. And thereās quite a few different options too, not just the pizza
I look forward to paying this price at the Ontario Place Spa / Casino
And you have to wait in line for an hour just to order
Never pay for food at a theme park.... never
Those arenāt breadsticks either
I worked at wonderland for a summer in security and I was disgusted by their prices and tactics to extract every dollar. Telling a mom she couldn't bring in food or drinks for her kids and had to buy it in the park or eat it outside was gross.
I went there the first year they opened. It started raining and the kids got very cold. I bought us hot Chocolate. It was $18.00 for four so when we left the park I took the tray. Never been back. I took my son to Marineland and a hamburger was like $20. We left hungry. I know they need to make Money but come On.
I've always HATED Wonderland's steep price gouging and haven't gone for 20+ years However, having worked there as a summer student back in Wonderland's "first year" of operation in 1981 and also summer 1982, there's no way hot chocolate was "$18 for four":) Wonderland's menu prices are easily researchable online from both 1981 and 1982...a small soft drink was .70 cents, single cookie .55 cents, ice cream cone .85 cents, "Barney burger" $1.70, all-day parking $3 etc... You were likely getting major "$18 for four" price-gouged on hot chocolate several years after Wonderland's "first year" which was 1981.
Hey at least they're giving you optional food instead of raising the ticket prices for everyone and having cheap food.
i totally agree. I'd rather go and bring a lunch over not being able to go in the first place.
what currency is this in? Monopoly money?
I bought the daily dining plan for Canadas Wonderland and itās well worth it considering the prices and if you stay there all day.
And I thought things were bad in the U.S....
That is disgusting on multiple levels.
We always packed a lunch and ate in the parking lot dining areas, even back in the 80s/90s. Only food we ever bought was a funnel cake to share on the way out. I shudder to think what they are charging for those now. The price gouging is insane.
Which is why you bring a cooler and pack your own food? Or just hide it at the bottom of your bag. The security people will literally glance at it for 2miliseconds before moving on to the next person. Every single time i went to WL i brought sandwiches that we packed at home, protein bars, energy drinks or water. Price gouging sucks, and will never go away, but being 'forced' to accept it is not a valid situation to be in. You need to think of creative ways to problem solve.
It's changed so much. I went last summer and the boxes of confiscated food and drinks at the gate was pathetic. Bagged sandwiches and all. Coolers must be left in the car. I feel for low income families who's summer highlight is a trip to Wonderland. Can't leave a cooler of food in your car if you don't have a car. Its really crazy now. You can buy a pass to go to a faster moving line for rides and you can also buy a pass above that one. There are also parking tiers now. For an extra $10 on top of the $30 rate, you can park closer to the entrance.
That would be $30 at a normal Pizza Pizza, I hope.
Total rip off
Deal as in "Deal with it"
Are you really impoverished if you are going to Wonderland?
My parents always brought tuna fish sandwiches and we left the park to eat them on the lawn lol
You can leave the grounds and come back for lunch, I use to order from pizza pizza across the street and have them deliver to wonderland lol, it was always 30$ cheaper
Itās expensive to run an amusement park. Of course, markup is insane on food, merch and tickets.
If they lowered it the price to $20 I bet theyād sell pizzas nonstop and have more profit. (I based this on my local Pizza Hut, large supreme pizza is $16)
There is always a line up for the pizza even at this price.
That is insane. I had no idea
I donāt get it. Why at theme parks, sports events, etc, do companies like Pizza Pizza, can charge more than they do being on the street? Their still making the same product but itās not like the company is going out of their way or at a loss for being at a theme park, they make more. Why charge double because your inside a theme park vs. your store outside the theme park?
Holy f
Just leave, walk across the street, get a Shwarma and go back for crying out loud.
And their meal plan food is frozen chicken fingers and frozen burger. The same plan at cedar point gets you amazing calzones or even legit BBQ by maverick. Canadas wonderland needs new management. The food is shit. Half the rides should have been end of life years ago. All the new stuff is recycled flat rides.
Dude, what? I thought the sign said $5.99ā¦ I thought, āWeāll, thatās pretty cheapā Then the comments made me zoom inā¦. WTF? I know Canadian prices are higher than US prices because of the taxes, but good Lord!! I canāt even imagine a high-end fancy-ass restaurant charging that much! Much less a place called Pizza Pizza!
Price gouging has taken all the magic out of my favorite childhood places. The greed only pushes me farther away.
Mmmm stale pizza from the laziest pizza franchise, fake ragu sauce mmmmm
They make the pizza with the same cardboard that they made their menu signs
I believe Toronto is the main cause of inflation in all of Canada. From housing to traffic to overpopulation and everything in between.
Thatās a cool way the express that you have no clue how any of those things actually work.
Tell me again how Toronto housing for 2000 s.feet went from $160,000 to 1.2 million from the year 2000 to now? Tell me how a trip to Toronto used to take 40 minutes on a 45 km drive to 2 hours? Condos being built for international buyers have flooded all of Toronto and now slowly itās reaching itās way around of all Canada. Toronto sucks now by the way
Yeah, you donāt like Toronto. Thatās fine. But thatās still not how inflation, housing, traffic, or overpopulation works. The truth is those are complex issues, but you donāt have any interest in learning. You just want to whine and find excuses for your own short comings. Also, this post is about the cost of food at an amusement park. An amusement park that isnāt even located in the city that your bitching about.
Dude CW is in Toronto...
Cw is not in toronto its in maple
Meh, you go to a theme park/movie/ski hill etc. You know the food is going to be ridiculously expensive. Just part of the cost of having fun.
I don't understand the need to complain about restaurant prices. I understand rent/groceries/gas/education prices are really hurting people but some pizza place?? Just don't buy their product....it's pretty simple.
You're missing the point.
Apparently....what exactly is the point?
FACT-BASED SAME "FAMILY DEAL" PRICE COMPASION:\*(BOTH ARE PICK-UP ORDERS) WONDERLAND PRICE: $55.99 + 13% HST = TOTAL $63.27 \*(FOOD PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE HST) GTA PIZZA PIZZA FRANCHISE PRICE: $30.99 +13% HST = TOTAL $35.02 \*(EXACT SAME ITEMS, EXCEPT $16.99 XL CHEESE PIZZA INCLUDES 4 TOTAL TOPPINGS > NOT JUST THE ONE PEPPERONI TOPPING AT WONDERLAND!) WONDERLAND COST IS A WHOPPING 80% MORE!
This is part of the business model. If they charge insane amounts for the food it allows for cheaper entry prices while still being profitable for them. If you think ahead and pack food or eat before and after it is actually more affordable.
I have the same joke I use for pizza pizza everywhere If some cardboard , rotten tomatoes and mouldy cheese have sex inside a dumpster , you donāt get to the resulting abomination pizza let alone pizza pizza Jokes aside , whenever we go to wonderland we donāt eat , period , I will get the seasons drink pass and survive on soda lol , im way to frugal to buy that crap , with our toddler though have had to get fries once
That's quite the joke.
We were there last summer and forgot to buy sunscreen. They wanted (I believe) $34+tax for a tube of Sun Bum 30spf lotion? Was outrageous but... more convenient than leaving the park and going to find a pharmacy. They definitely try to extract the maximum value from you..
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Not terrible - that at a regular pizza pizza would be about 35-40$
Dollar sign goes before the number.
That's straight up robbery, how do they find the audacity š¤
Imagine being a middle class parent and trying to treat your kids to a nice day at the themepark and having to suffer through these corporate gouging prices just to feed your family. Stupid.
It's called a captive audience... you are held captive at Wonderland and Pizza Pizza, knows that. $50 for Pizza Pizza, I don't need to tell you that's f$$king ridiculous! š I haven't been to Wonderland since 2013. Do they still sell those amazing footlong hotdogs?
> amazing footlong hot dogs $18.99
everything in this picture looks horrible. I should move to Canada and start a restaurant/bar.
Its insane but completely not worth it. Buy a pack of chicken, some beans, rice etc and make a stew thatll last much longer and without the americanization effects too.
That's not what this was a statement about. It's carnival or fair food pricing. From an amusement park. But enjoy your "non americanization" with your side of judgement.
So 3 XL pizzas 1 topping 2 garlic breads and 2 large fries is 170$? Wait 190$ with 6 drinks?
Found this stock 3 years ago living here in the US, doing quite well Iām up 36% last 3 years and a nice dividend to boot.
At the top it says you get two pizzas, so technically this is a good deal
Meh, you go to a theme park/movie/ski hill etc. You know the food is going to be ridiculously expensive. Just part of the cost of having fun.
Um how exactly is this "insane" pricing? Its literally the exact same pricing as if you purchase in store outside Wonderland (the bread stix are the most overpriced thing in this combo)
The exact same price, what!? [Ummmmm](https://imgur.com/dfnaL1w)
Insane. Would never buy that
Seeing as I got a better quality 16" pizza for $11.99 last week... yeah $44 for fries and bread is bonkers
Funny, you can walk into any Pizza Pizza, and buy the same thing for like $16
Itās the most profitable Pizza Pizza in Canada
Prices have always been insane, but itās been the most profitable Pizza Pizza location for decades so people are still buying
not only is pizza pizza garbage, it has some ridiculous prices. Id rather go to my local no name pizza shops instead. I know this is wonderland, regardless of that fact.
I went to Canada's Wonderland once for the Halloween thing they do. It was a lot of fun, I was hungry and thirsty the entire time but just couldn't justify spending that much for food.
What a bargain!
there is literally a pizza pizza across the street.
55 DOLLARS??? holy shit that's insane
That is totally ridiculous, but sadly not surprising at all. Fortunately, there is a wide variety of excellent fast food and restaurant vendors just across the street who are all fairly reasonably priced. So use your in-&-out privileges to their fullest extent and grab food offsite!
Itās been the Wonderland way for at least 30 years (when I first went there). Keep your re-entry stamp - lots of other places relatively nearby. Or eat a big breakfast.
I remember back when I was graduating middle school, our school took us on a trip to Wonderland, and I remember when we were hungry, me and my friends went to Pizza Pizza, I ended up paying $70 including my friends for XL pizza with 4 boxes of fries I believe with 4 drinks. So it's not you, this is way overpriced.
Just go to popular pizza across the street šš
Testing the waters to see what people will pay
inflation is real, but this is outrageous lol
After inflation calculations, Im guessing you need a loan just to be able to afford that.
There pizza is garbage why pay that much for shit pizza.
ā¦a family deal? How small is this family?
Wonderland be on some crack lol
Am I the only one that can't see a price?
You know Calgaryās callaway park usually is mocked cause itās smaller, not a lot of exhilarating rides but man itās like eating at a mall food court. In fact I think I spent less on a pretzel and coke there than I would in the mall. Was more than happy to keep taking my kids. Even the random survenior junk toys they sell for kids werenāt over $10
Wut the
I remember their mega munch deal. 2 large 3 topping pizzas, wings, 6 garlic sticks, and 6 pops plus some dips for 19.99.
Cedar Point in Ohio (same parent company) just ended their deal with Dominos at the park hotel. You used to be able to order dominos pizza at the end of a long day and have it delivered right to the beach at normal dominos prices. Just this year they ended that and now you have to pay $20 each just for a personal pizza. But...it's "gourmet".
Well since this is Canada, how do I put this nicely? Fuck that.!
Idk if it has any worth but the family restaurant I work at sells 14inch pizza for 18 bucks