{"id":1008348,"date":"2021-11-13T17:28:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T22:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1008348"},"modified":"2021-11-13T17:28:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T22:28:43","slug":"bidenflation-disney-cfo-says-smaller-food-portions-at-parks-good-for-some-peoples-waistlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidenflation-disney-cfo-says-smaller-food-portions-at-parks-good-for-some-peoples-waistlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Bidenflation: Disney CFO Says Smaller Food Portions at Parks &#039;Good for Some People&#039;s Waistlines&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidenflation-disney-cfo-says-smaller-food-portions-at-parks-good-for-some-peoples-waistlines%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1008348&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Disney\u2019s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) suggested the company\u2019s theme parks could reduce food portion sizes to counter runaway inflation, then joked that the smaller servings would also be \u201cgood for some people\u2019s waistlines\u201d during a conference call this week.<\/p>\n<p>After being asked&nbsp;during a quarterly earnings call Wednesday about&nbsp;how Disney is handling rising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/inflation\/\">inflation<\/a> under the Biden administration, Walt Disney Company CFO Christine McCarthy said she would rather serve less food for the same amount of money than charge higher prices, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/disneyland\/article\/Disney-fans-angered-by-CFO-comment-16613190.php\">report<\/a> by SFGATE.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe have things on the cost of goods side,\u201d McCarthy said on the call. \u201cAnd it\u2019s interesting. Just last week \u2014 I was talking to our parks senior team about things we could do there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd there are lots of things that are worth talking about,\u201d the CFO continued. \u201cWe can adjust suppliers. We can substitute products. We can cut portion size, which is probably good for some people\u2019s waistlines.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18735602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1311483376.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18735602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1311483376.jpg\" alt=\"SHANGHAI, CHINA - APRIL 08: A tourist holds a food case with 5th Birthday feature at shanghai disneyland on April 08, 2021 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Hu Chengwei\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A tourist holds a food case at shanghai disneyland on April 08, 2021 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Hu Chengwei\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The latter part of&nbsp;McCarthy\u2019s comment drew ire on social media from Disney theme park fans, who&nbsp;accused the CFO of engaging in \u201cfat shaming\u201d and pointed out that a lot the food options at Disney parks are not very healthy to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019re&nbsp;fat shaming now as justification for cutting costs?\u201d one Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geoffreykoester\/status\/1458589426502848512?s=20\">reacted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWay to go Disney for fat shaming\u2026 and keeping prices the same,\u201d another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wheels_518\/status\/1458566835226427403?s=20\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cThey want our waist size to go down but their waist size to go up with all the money that is being put into their pockets\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they really cared about the overweight guests, they\u2019d provide healthier options\u2026 what a bunch of BS,\u201d&nbsp;another individual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Disneyland\/comments\/qrdogl\/disney_considering_reducing_food_portion_size_to\/\">wrote<\/a> on the Disneyland subreddit.<\/p>\n<p>Others commented on the high costs of food at Disney parks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey better cut the prices cuz my wallet ain\u2019t as fat as my a$$,\u201d another social media user commented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReduce portions to cut costs for them, we\u2019ve taken advantage of large portions to share and save on food costs. Guess that won\u2019t be an option anymore,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney\u2019s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) suggested the company\u2019s theme parks could reduce food portion sizes to counter runaway inflation, then joked that the smaller servings would also be \u201cgood for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}