Janes Rivertown Restaurant now shut on weekends

[Vidgamer]

I went to book Jane’s for Friday night for a family event, anyway it is now closed on the weekends, which seems like a bit of a miss, the trivia was short lived. 

[jjuttup]

You mean Saturday nights?

[Vidgamer]

Yes, closed on Friday and Saturday nights 

[themagician]

You can still book a table in October and November

https://booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/JanesRivertownRestaurant/10649

[Brad2912]

They are in a bit of a bind marketing wise as Jane’s is somewhat in competition with the food trucks at the night market. Don’t think any long term decision has been made but they are taking time to review 

[themagician]

8 hours ago, Brad2912 said:

Jane’s is somewhat in competition with the food trucks at the night market

I did always think it was going to cause potential issues and would potentially become a deterrent to food truck owners long term if they felt that Jane’s was taking away their customers. I think it was great to have Jane’s open at night for those first few months because it was new and exciting and was a way to show off the new venue and land. And maybe during school holidays/night events hosted by the park it would be great to have open, but on a weekly basis with the night markets probably isn’t necessary.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

The trouble with special event openings is staffing it, whereas when you're open the same times each week you tend to have a regular roster.

[New display name]

9 hours ago, Brad2912 said:

They are in a bit of a bind marketing wise as Jane’s is somewhat in competition with the food trucks at the night market. Don’t think any long term decision has been made but they are taking time to review 

More people would go to the Night Market and this would be less of a issue if the Night Market opening nights, wasn't all over the place.  DW are chasing their tails with this one.

[themagician]

Has anyone been to the markets recently? How are they nowadays and what are the crowd levels like?

[HarryHeHe8]

1 minute ago, themagician said:

Has anyone been to the markets recently? How are they nowadays and what are the crowd levels like?

I went last week for a little bit. The crowd levels aren't bad, but they have definitely been better.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Maybe night market should be pared back to once a month, and run in such a way that dreamworld doesn't have to cancel it every other month for special event nights. 

So - make it the first friday and saturday of every month, so they've got the remaining weekends for their own events. This also frees up those friday \ saturdays outside of halloween, winter, christmas, country fair etc to run special one-off events for passholders, or special ticketed events for private hire, fundraisers and the like. 

This would concentrate those that want to visit the night markets into one night a month too, so potentially attendance at a monthly night market would increase.

 

just spitballing, i'm sure there's other problems with that too.

[New display name]

I don't know if the Night Market is in DW's future plans.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

I'm sure most of us don't. great observation.