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The Garden Grill Restaurant

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/* Fun Facts and Trivia */
{{Infobox Disney ride |
| image=GardenGrill.jpg
| caption='''The entrance to The Garden Grill Restaurant. Photo by Theme Park Tourist'''
| opened= 1982 (as Good Turn Restaurant) <br> 1993 (as The Garden Grill Restaurant)
| park= Epcot
| land=The Land
| sponsor= Smuckers
| custom_label_1= Restaurant Type
| custom_value_1= Table Service/Character Dining
| custom_label_2= Menu Type
| custom_value_2= American
| custom_label_3= Formally Known As
| custom_value_3= Good Turn Restaurant (1982-1984) <br> The Land Grille Room (1984-1993)
}}
The Garden Grill Restaurant is a table service dining location inside [[The Land]] pavilion at [[Epcot]]
==History==
The restaurant dining location that is currently known as The Garden Grill Restaurant had its genesis early on in the development of [[The Land pavilion]]. Long before EPCOT Center would open, Tony Baxter's plans for the pavilion called for a rotating treetop restaurant <ref> http://www.martinsvids.net/?p=652 </ref>. Although the pavilion that opened with the rest of EPCOT Center was drastically different then than Baxter's planned pavilion, the rotating restaurant idea stuck, and on October 1, 1982 , the Good Turn Restaurant opened to guests <ref> https://d23.com/a-to-z/good-turn-restaurant-the/ </ref>. The name of the dining location came from the fact that the restaurant rotated, allowing guests to look down into various scenes in [[Listen to the Land]] <ref> http://waltdatedworld.bravepages.com/id112.htm </ref>.  In May 1986, The Good Turn Restaurant was rechristened The Land Grille Room <ref> https://d23.com/a-to-z/good-turn-restaurant-the/ </ref>. The Land Grille Room operated from May 14, 1986 to October 4, 1993 <ref> https://d23.com/a-to-z/land-grille-room-the/ </ref>. At this time, the restaurant closed as part of the larger refurbishment of [[The Land]]that happened in conjunction with Nestle assuming sponsorship of the pavilion. On on November 15, 1993 , the restaurant reopened as The Garden Grill Restaurant<ref> https://d23.com/a-to-z/garden-grill-restaurant/ </ref>.  Beginning on November 8, 2015, The Garden Grill Restaurant began serving breakfast and lunch <ref> http://www.wdwmagic.com/dining/garden-grill-restaurant/news/28jul2015-epcots-garden-grill-to-expand-operating-hours-to-breakfast-and-lunch.htm </ref>.
==Current Menu==
https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/epcot/garden-grill-restaurant/menus/
 
==Characters==
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| '''Chip'''
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| '''Mickey (photo by JeffChristiansen)'''
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==Fun Facts and Trivia==
* While dining at The Garden Grill Restaurant, guests can look down into [[Living with the Land]]'s the rain forest, desert, and prairie scenes <ref name= "Jack"> http://land.allears.net/blogs/jackspence/2010/08/living_with_the_land_1.html </ref>.
 
* The restaurant makes a full rotation every 45 minutes <ref name= "Jack"/>.
 
* Much of the food served in The Garden Grill is harvested from The Land pavilion's greenhouses<ref name= "Jack"/>.
 
==References==