One of the ways Disney World will be encouraging guests to reduce contact upon reopening is by utilizing the Mobile Order service at eligible quick-service restaurants.
Captain Cooks on Mobile Order
But for table service restaurants, Disney World has added a new feature to its My Disney Experience app called Mobile Dine Check-In so that once you arrive for your dining reservation, you can bypass the host stand. Let’s see it in action!
Several restaurants will offer Mobile Dine Check-In (click here to see the full list), and we got to use it for the first time this morning at Disney’s Riviera Resort’s Topolino’s Terrace!
Topolino’s Terrace
Before entering the restaurant, we noticed a Mobile Dine Check-In sign with a large QR code to scan.
Mobile Dine Check-In Sign
Once we scanned the sign with our devices, it automatically launched the My Disney Experience app and pulled up Mobile Dine Check-In. We scanned the QR code using the normal camera feature on our smartphones.
Screenshot From My Disney Experience App
We confirmed our reservation time and number of guests and tapped the blue “Start Check-In” button to tell the restaurant we had arrived.
Screenshot From My Disney Experience App
The next screen asks you to confirm your party mix.
Confirm Party
The next screen asked if we had any special accessibility requirements.
Accessibility Needs
We could select if anyone in our group was celebrating something.
Celebrations
And finally we confirmed we’d completed all the steps to check-in and were prompted to provide a phone number to receive additional information by text.
Confirmation
We received a text that we had been checked in and would receive an additional text when our table was ready. While we didn’t have hardly any wait, we were free to walk around until our table was ready.
Topolino’s Mobile Dine Check-In Text
And after that, we met by a Cast Member who seated us right away at our table.
Cast Members at Topolino’s
All in all, we really enjoyed the new Mobile Dine Check-In feature because it saved us the time and hassle of waiting in line! We hope this new feature sticks around because it’s quite handy as well as contactless! 
Click here to read about changes coming to the Disney World dining experience this summer.
What do you think about Disney World’s new Mobile Dine check-in feature? Let us know in the comments!