The Food is Priced Way Too High

Have you ever wondered why the food in theme parks is so ridiculously priced? I have as well. After having been in the park for sometime, I've come to the conclusion that parks do it simply because they can. I mean that's easy money, right? It's genius. Ban food from entering the park and then hike up the food prices. It's also a way for them to push their all season food passes and their season passes. Purchase this thing and you get to eat free every time you come here!

Funny thing is, if you're an employee you get the same food at a much cheaper price. In the park, a candy bar is like four dollars. Employees get the same thing for eighty-five cents. Chicken Strips and fries are like ten to fifteen dollars and we got them for five bucks. Sodas are four or five dollars and employees got them from the vending machines for a dollar. Hey, the company does like their employees.

The staff also gets a pretty hefty discount on like everything. It brings all the overpriced nonsense back into check. That fifteen dollar funnel cake I've had marked down to seven dollars. The seven dollar bowl of dipping dots I get for three or four dollars. I got on go-carts for free, the sky coaster thing I got on for free, the elephants I got on for free. Maybe that's why I stuck around so long...

Anyways, here's an inside secret. It's pretty damn easy to get outside food into the park. I mean you aren't getting a full blown rotisserie chicken on the premises but if you want to take a few candy bars in your pockets you can more than likely get into the gates with that. I can not count the number of times I've seen folks with outside food in the park. Some lady even complained to one of my coworkers about it one time. He didn't do anything though (because let's be honest, it wasn't that big of a deal for a kid to be munching on a bag of chips).

And there you have it, another trade secret to benefit the greater good!