Nancyg56
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 17, 2005
Quite honestly, I don't think it's an IT coding issue at all. I've heard all the explanations as to why it's an IT issue, and I don't buy any of them.
They already have the coding for kid/adult differentiation in the system for the standard dining plan.
QS meals are not differentiated on ANY plan...not sure why that would be a barrier to correcting this issue. Using a DxDDP credit for a QS meal would be no different than using a DDP TS credit for a QS meal. Already happens every day at WDW.
I believe it's simply a loophole that servers have learned to navigate to increase their tips, and guest have learned to get something they didn't pay for.
Management is either (1) oblivious (doubtful), or (2) not affected enough to care....yet. I'd say that option 2 is much more likely.
I think so far management does not care. Disney wants to sell their dining plans, and there are monetary downfalls with each one. If the bean counters find that overall the "loophole" is overused, it will be closed. Until Disney feels the financial negative outweighs the potential lure, (I think that loophole is not used as much as we here on the DIS would think) it will remain there. I think the DxDDP is a cash cow for Disney and they want to sell it.