Mobile Order will allow guests to select their choices via the My Disney Experience app instead of waiting in line for a cashier at the quick service restaurant. (Disney is calling Satu’li Canteen "fast casual.") Cast members won't start preparing your meal until you arrive at the restaurant and use the app to let them know you are ready to eat. Once the meal is ready, you'll be alerted to pick it up at a designated window.
Payment via mobile will be by credit card. If you want to use the Disney Dining Plan, you'll need to order in person, the traditional way.
As for that menu, think "bowls and buns." The entrees will be customized bowls, with bases of quinoa, potatoes, rice, or a lettuce/kale mix and a beef, chicken, fish, or tofu topping. (Yes, Satu’li Canteen sounds a bit like an extraterrestrial Chipotle.)
In addition, the restaurant will serve bao steamed buns, with vegetable curry or cheeseburger filling. I guess that's the halfway option for Americans willing to try a steamed bun but not a more traditional filling. But barbecued pork is a traditional bao filling, too, and that's as American-friendly as good gets, so maybe we can get that addition some day?
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I would suggest they offer to-go lunch boxes that you can pick up at any kiosk to alleviate the demand from the restaurants.
You know how nice it was just to walk up to a restaurant and be seated in a standby wait as opposed to sitting there being told it's reservations only at a restaurant that has 10-15 open tables that don't get used.
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I get what Disney is doing, but they need to start coming out and admitting that they are still struggling to handle demand. Ordering lunch through MyDisneyExperience is not going to change demand or expedite anything. At some point, guests are going to start boycotting these technological crutches Disney is continuously forcing on its visitors, and that time is getting close. With the elimination of any sort of "off-season", guests are growing tired of the "must plan every intricacy of their vacation" aspect Disney continues to jam down their throats, and while the most loyal fans (DVC owners and the like) would give their first born male child to visit WDW every year, the marginal fans and once every 10-year visitors continue to be pushed to the side.