How Often Does Princess the Change Menu's (MDR)?

[need2cruisesoon]

Just curious if they change yearly or seasonly or just when they want to?

And are they same ship to ship.

[Steelers36]

IDK if there is a set time, but there were menu changes in 2019 that I noticed.  Sometimes adjusting when certain mains were offered at dinner and other times new items showing up. 

 

[Mike45LC]

I think Princess monitors the customer complaints, and when the complaints fall off, they decide to change the MDR menus to start off a new flurry of complaints.  Inevitably, whatever goes away will be the favorite food item for a bunch of passengers, and every one of those will start to complain vigorously!

 

 

[getting older slowly]

When you ask do the menu change... do you mean over the cruise or over the years ??..   

 

Speciality restaurants menu stay the same.....  ( same for over 3 years )

 

Breakfast in MDR and Suite Breakfast stay the same..  ( same for over 3 years )..

 

Right the MDR at lunch ( sea days ) and dinner menus  go through a 7 or 13 day cycle

 before being repeated ( depends on the length of the cruise )

Note the princess favourites on menu stay the same.....  

 

a few item come and go but it stays very similar.

 

Cheers Don

  

[geoherb]

Princess tries to have some locally inspired dishes on the menu for each itinerary. So you won't see exactly the same menus on a ship sailing in Alaska as one sailing in Europe at the same time. But many of the selections will be the same.

[jondfk]

And, if you're on a long cruise (really anything over about 12 days) you'll start to see individual items repeat.  There may be variations in sauces or side dishes but the mains will start to rerun.  For example prime rib will almost certainly rerun but with a side of mashed instead of baked and a change in veg.  That's no bad thing in my book.

[JF - retired RRT]

Pescado Amarillo is on the Ruby and says Princess is trying out a new menu on that ship. It looks good...mostly.

[Expat Cruise]

You need to understand that while the daily menus may change. The overall stock of food and supplies takes much longer. Having talked to mangers and done Ship Tours, I was told that they order the food and supplies for the ships 6 to 8 months in advance.  This does not count local fresh items, like fruits and vegetables.  The restocking of the ships is set this far out. The same beef used in Miami is used in Australia. So product has to be order and placed into shipping containers and then shipped around the world to many ports for restocking. 

 

Therefore it does not seem possible to change menus based on comment cards. The amount of port, beef, chicken, etc that will be on the ship is preset almost a year before the sailing of your cruise. It is really a whole separate business keeping  Princess ships stocked for the guests. With changes needed to be made a year or more in advance from the Corporate level to the ships cruises.  The menus are also adjusted for seasons and the market the ship is sailing in.  The number of whole turkeys on ships for a Thanksgiving  or Christmas cruise is very different than a July 4 cruise.  A item can be change on the menu IE one chicken dish for another, but they cannot say stop chicken and switch to beef.