Report: Meals Costs At Disney Have Elevated 60% in 10 Years

Over the previous a number of years, inflation has affected every little thing in American consumerism, from grocery retailer costs to restaurant closures to wages.

Now, a brand new research is exhibiting that inflation has even affected costs on the Happiest Place on Earth.

New information from Finance Buzz exhibits that costs for concessions at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, have elevated a median of 61% over the previous 10 years — greater than the typical enhance in a single park ticket, which has gone up 56% over the previous decade.

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Some notable fan favorites have risen in worth by a brow-raising quantity, just like the Dole Whip dessert, which has gone up 58%, and the enduring Mickey Mouse-shaped ice cream bar, which has elevated 63% prior to now 10 years.

The very best single merchandise enhance on the listing is the bread service at Animal Kingdom restaurant Sanaa, which has greater than doubled in worth from $9.99 to $22 since 2014.

“Costs for each single merchandise have risen by a minimum of $1.50, with most going up by a minimum of $2 since 2014,” Finance Buzz wrote in its research. “However whereas meals prices have skyrocketed, the bottom worth for essentially the most inexpensive Disney World tickets has remained remarkably secure, going up simply $19 from 2014 to 2024.”

The monetary analysis supply collected its information by taking present meals and beverage costs from the Walt Disney World web site and evaluating them to the outdated Disney web site utilizing the Web Archive’s Wayback Machine.

Earlier this month, Disney and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District (CFTOD) reached a unanimous settlement in a preliminary vote to approve a $17 billion enlargement program for the Florida institution, which might doubtlessly embody the event of a fifth Walt Disney World park.

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“We’re already laborious at work at mainly figuring out the place we will place our new investments and what they are going to be,” Disney CEO Bob Iger said in February throughout a Q1 2024 earnings name. “You possibly can just about conclude that they will be throughout, which means each single considered one of our areas would be the beneficiary of elevated funding.”

The Walt Disney Co. was up over 8% yr over yr as of Friday afternoon.