Min & Bill's Dockside Diner opened with the rest of the then Disney-MGM Studios on May 5, 1989. Located on the shore of Echo Lke, the quick service restaurant is based on the 1930 film "Min and Bill" starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Berry.
==Fun Facts and Trivia<ref> http://land.allears.net/blogs/jackspence/2009/06/min_bills_dockside_diner_disne.html </ref>==
* The SS Down the Hatch that serves as the restaurant's "building" is clearly a cargo steamer.
* On the left side of the ship guests can find a number of large crates addressed to fictional classic film characters. Examples of this Films represented includeCitizen Kane (Charles Foster Kane), It's a Wonderful Life (George Bailey), Casablanca (Rick Blaine), Gone With the Wind (Scarlet O'Hara) and the Producers (Max Bialystock). The full text of these crates are:
* A delivery from the Rosebud Sled Company- Denver, Colorado 80202, to: <br> '' Charles Foster Kane <br> Xanadu Compound <br> Gulf Coast, Florida 50141.''