Woody's Lunch Box
Woody's Lunch Box is a quick-service restaurant in Toy Story Land at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World, Florida. Designed as Andy's Woody-themed lunch box, tipped on its side and held open by a giant thermos, it serves sandwiches, melts and snacks reworked from American school-lunch staples to guests whom the land treats as toys at backyard scale. It opened with Toy Story Land on June 30, 2018.
History
Toy Story Land, an eleven-acre area based on Pixar's Toy Story films, was announced at the D23 Expo in 2015 and opened on June 30, 2018, replacing part of the park's former backlot area. The land opened with Slinky Dog Dash, Alien Swirling Saucers and the relocated entrance to Toy Story Mania!, and Woody's Lunch Box as its only restaurant; a second, table-service restaurant, Roundup Rodeo BBQ, followed in 2023.
The lunch box was developed with sponsorship from Mini Babybel, whose cheese products feature on the menu and in the design, and which was presented at opening as the official snack cheese of Walt Disney World. A long-standing weakness was shade and covered seating: the dining area is outdoors, and additional shade structures were added in later years in response to guest feedback.
Setting
In Toy Story Land's fiction, guests have shrunk to the size of toys in Andy's backyard. The restaurant continues the joke at architectural scale: the serving window is the open lunch box itself, the menu boards are oversized notebook and packaging elements, and seating is formed from giant food packaging, including Babybel cheese wheels used as stools and tables built from oversized snack containers. Queues and tables sit among building-block towers, Tinkertoy-style structures and other toys scattered through the land.
As a walk-up window with outdoor seating only, the restaurant has no indoor dining room, which shapes its operation in Florida's summer storms and heat.
Food and drink
The menu gives familiar lunch items a more elaborate treatment. The three-cheese grilled sandwich and the barbecue brisket melt have been present since opening, and early menus also included a Monte Cristo-style sandwich. The best-known side is Totchos, a bowl of potato barrels topped as nachos, with chilli, cheese sauce, corn chips and sour cream. Breakfast service has included a brisket and egg sandwich and breakfast bowls built on the same potato barrels.
Sweet items are led by Lunch Box Tarts, rectangular filled pastries in the manner of a toaster pastry, whose flavours — raspberry and chocolate-hazelnut at opening — rotate seasonally. Old-fashioned soda floats, lemonade specialities and, for adults, spiked drinks such as a hard lemonade complete the offer. Smaller children's versions of the sandwiches are served, and mobile ordering is supported.