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TL;DR.  Electrical engineer fresh out of college, and workplace is next door to Six Flags Magic Mountain.  In 2014, finds a promo for $150 a year for unlimited trips to park, free parking and free food.  Ends up eating every meal there and saves enough to pay off college loans, buy a home and get married.

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/six-flags-dining-pass

 

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For years, millennials have endured an endless barrage of worthless budgeting apps, phony money diaries and toxic hustle porn. But in truth, there is only one realistic path for us to overcome our debilitating financial burdens. And Dylan, a 33-year-old electrical engineer in Santa Clarita, California, is the one who figured it out. “You can pay around $150 for unlimited, year-round access to Six Flags, which includes parking and two meals a day,” he tells me. “If you time it right, you could eat both lunch and dinner there every day.” 

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Maybe that sounds outlandish, but after just seven years of daily meals at the theme park, Dylan paid down his student loans, got married and bought a house. 

It all started on the first day of his internship in 2014, when Dylan noticed the rollicking coasters of Six Flags Magic Mountain from the windows of his new office. Fresh out of college and something of a coaster-fanatic already, Dylan was perusing the options for Six Flags’ annual pass when he stumbled upon what might be the deal of his lifetime — for a one-time fee of $150, he could eat two meals a day, every day at the park for an entire year. Since his office was just a five-minute drive away, it was a no-brainer. 

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“That entire first year, I don’t think I ever went to the grocery store,” he says. “I timed it so I was able to go there during my lunch break, go back to work, then stop back for dinner on my way home.” 

Where others saw glorified carnival food, Dylan saw the world’s thriftiest food court. “It was crazy — I was saving money, paying off student loans,” he explains. “One of my coworkers said she spent $1,500 a month on eating out, I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m not going down that road!’” 

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Smash Burger did a promotion 100 burgers for 100 dollars for 100 days.  Manager told me keep the receipt and bring it in the next day and you get garlic fries for it.  I did that.  Everyday and started trading my coworkers lunches for it.  Totally worth it

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worked at Six Flags in HS.  at the plantation fried chicken spot.  Came in one day and overnight a rat had gotten in a fryer.  Manager scooped it out and started cooking.

Quit the same day.   Fuck no I wouldn't eat any meal at Six Flags.

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I worked food service at six flags for 3 seasons and back then they used Sysco (or something similiar). You could eat fairly decent meals (burgers, salads, etc) no problem. I loved that job as a teenager. Made out with a co-worker girlfriend on the spinnaker many a times.

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  On 10/26/2021 at 2:32 PM, BigDHornfan said:

worked at Six Flags in HS.  at the plantation fried chicken spot.  Came in one day and overnight a rat had gotten in a fryer.  Manager scooped it out and started cooking.

Quit the same day.   Fuck no I wouldn't eat any meal at Six Flags.

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Said everyone who ever worked in any restaurant and saw similar shit happen in every single one of them.  Im convinced there’s not a restaurant in existence that hasn’t had some disgusting shit happen in the kitchen on the regular  

As for meals in a theme park, fuck that. I’d rather live paycheck to paycheck for a few years and eat ramen and pbj when I need to. I could see doing it for a year or so to help build a rainy day fund, but 6 years?!  

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Ya'll see that Six Flags over Texas is bringing back a new version of Speelunker's Cave? I'd like to thank this guy and his purchases that made this happen.

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All you have to do is eat carnival food for seven years, and you too can afford a down payment and a wedding ring!

God Bless America!

Extreme savers are fucking weirdo losers.

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  On 10/26/2021 at 3:44 AM, CooterBrown said:

$150 for entry and two meals a day for a year sounds like a promo idea that gets someone fired. I can’t believe that was an actual offer.

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There’s one of this guy and hundreds or thousands of people who impulse bought and used it once or twice. It wouldn’t have worked for this dude if he didn’t work five minutes from the park. I’ll bet, in fact, that with this article they’ll have a surge in passes and then 90 percent of the people who buy them will eat a couple of ass carnie meals and never go back. 

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Food can be major expense if you eat out/drink out.. Its the easiest way to cut 4 figures off your monthly nut; stop eating and drinking out and shop at the grocery store.. This guy just took it to the next level... and I think his biggest hassle was likely waiting in line and going through metal detectors every time he needed to eat. 

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  On 10/26/2021 at 2:35 AM, ztejas said:

It isn't eating the food it's having to get in and out of a six flags every day. 

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  On 10/26/2021 at 10:45 AM, Landomatic said:

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Who wouldn't want to eat lunch and dinner every. . . . . . .single. . . . day surrounded by thousands of estrogen and testosterone charged teenagers from every small town brought by every church bus in California?  

And who knows, maybe he got a degree from ITT tech, bought a 640 square foot tiny house, and got married to a mail order bride at the justice of the peace office. Anyone who would do the Six Flags shit makes me think this scenario is not out of the question.

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  On 10/28/2021 at 1:41 PM, SydneyCarton said:

Having seen Ted Lasso, and the fact it's clear in the picture, I find it irritating some asshole captioned that as "Hold my beer" when he is clearly holding a fucking coffee. 

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Season 1, episode 2. Ted decides to play soccer with the school girl, hands his coffee to Coach Beard, and actually says, ‘Here, hold my beer.”

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Sorry for partying. 

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Six Flags has done away with its unlimited dining pass after a series of videos appeared in the past few months on TikTok, showing people how to take advantage of the feature and obtain thousands of dollars worth of food.

Officials confirmed Thursday that the dining plan, which was an $80 add-on to the park’s season pass, had been ended as it was “highly unprofitable,” ripe for abuse, and was making the park experience worse for families who came to visit for the day.

The decision comes as TikTok personalities have bragged about eating every meal at Six Flags parks, saving them hundreds of dollars.

“The pass gives you two meals a day, one snack, and unlimited drinks, so that’s up to 400 meals and 200 snacks a year for $200,” a TikToker who goes by the alias “Six Flags Scoundrel” told Vice last year. “We're looking at less than 50 cents per meal, and that's not even if I go every day. That’s the cost of two packs of ramen noodles—but we're talking two square meals and another half meal basically. It's just insane. The calorie-to-cost ratio is just unheard of.”

The streamer says he paid a total of $174.88 for a season pass and the food plan and was trying to get $2,000 worth of food in his experiment.

As with most things that go viral on TikTok, others tried to do the same. And, ultimately, says Six FlagsCEO Selim Bassoul, it not only cost the company money, but resulted in clogged lines at food service locations, which upset other guests.

“They ruin the experience for somebody who came in on a single-day ticket with their family…who paid a lot of money to come…now they have 45 minutes to an hour to wait to get a meal while those other people are choking up the line for $80 for the whole season,” he told analysts on the company’s first-quarter earnings call Thursday.

While the dining plan is gone for now, Six Flags says it will likely reintroduce a revised one in the months to come.

“We will most probably rethink whether we introduce a dining plan, a season dining plan or not or an all-exclusive, but it's going to be completely changed from what people expect, because I want to avoid the choking points,” said Bassoul.

Six Flags also did away with its month-to-month membership plan and cut back on free tickets. Moving forward, the company hopes to attract fewer customers who spend more.

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  On 5/15/2022 at 8:14 AM, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Sorry for partying. 

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Six Flags has done away with its unlimited dining pass after a series of videos appeared in the past few months on TikTok

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Internet: CHECK OUT THIS AMAZING HACK

Company: Oh, thanks for bringing that to our attention

 

The TikTok generation has ruined everything. 

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