Every theme park has its recurring problems, and Walt Disney World's most persistent and underreported one is bees at Joffrey's Coffee kiosks. This is not a new development. It is not a seasonal quirk or a one-time incident that got a little media attention and then resolved itself.
The bee situation at Joffrey's locations across Walt Disney World has been documented for years, has caused actual operational disruptions at multiple parks, has forced menu limitations, and has made life genuinely difficult for the cast members working inside kiosks that were designed with open sides in an outdoor environment that is, to put it mildly, extremely attractive to bees.
Disney just made the biggest physical intervention in the history of this ongoing situation. Three Joffrey's kiosks at EPCOT have been enclosed with windows and mesh screens, and the before-and-after photos make the scale of the change immediately clear.
Why Bees Cannot Stay Away From Joffrey's
The answer is simple, and it is sitting right there on the counter of every Joffrey's kiosk in plain sight. The syrup display. Joffrey's ordering experience is built around visible rows of flavored syrups that guests can add to their beverages, sweet, floral, and fruit-based options arranged in open view as part of the service model.
Those syrups are precisely the kind of concentrated sugar source that bees are biologically programmed to locate, exploit, and return to repeatedly.
Put that display in a kiosk with open sides in the middle of a theme park, surrounded by manicured landscaping, flowering plants, and the ambient smell of food and sweetened beverages from every direction, and you have created an environment where bees are not an occasional visitor. They are a regular customer.
The Magic Kingdom Joffrey's kiosk had bee-related operational impacts as recently as November 2025. The EPCOT locations have had documented bee issues for even longer. Cast members working inside open-sided kiosks full of sugar have been managing this problem for years while guests tried to order around it.
What Disney Just Did
Three EPCOT Joffrey's kiosks have been fitted with windows and mesh screens that close off the previously open sides of each booth. The booth near Disney Traders, the booth near The American Adventure, and the World Discovery booth have all received the modification.
The installation is not a cosmetic patch. The formerly open sides of the kiosks now have physical windows and mesh screens that create a genuine barrier between the sweet-smelling contents inside and the outdoor environment outside. Openings for guest communication and ordering remain in place so the service experience is not disrupted.
The mesh allows airflow through the kiosk without providing open access. The existing metal covers that slide down over the sides overnight when locations are closed remain in place to cover the new window openings.
The American Adventure booth features window frames designed to match the theming of the surrounding structure, a detail that reflects how seriously Disney takes visual consistency, even when the functional goal is pest management. The World Discovery booth has similar white-framed windows, though the theming integration is slightly less precise there.
The Broader Situation at Disney
The three EPCOT kiosks are not the only Joffrey's locations at Walt Disney World that have dealt with bee activity. The Magic Kingdom kiosk was already more enclosed than the EPCOT booths before the recent modifications, but it has still experienced operational issues. Whether the Magic Kingdom location or other Joffrey's kiosks across the property will receive similar enclosures has not been confirmed.
What is confirmed is that the bee problem at Joffrey's is real, persistent, and widespread enough to have warranted a significant physical renovation of three outdoor kiosks at one of the most visited theme parks in the world. The syrups attracted the bees. The bees disrupted operations. The operations disrupted guests. Disney enclosed the kiosks.
For EPCOT visitors, the modified booths look noticeably different from how they appeared before but function exactly the same way from a guest perspective. Ordering happens through the windows. The syrups are still visible. The coffee is still the same.
The bees just cannot get to it anymore.
That is a win. It took years to get here, but that is a win.
