Dining
There are numerous dining options throughout the mall. On the first floor is The Cheesecake Factory, which replaced Rainforest Cafe, which was the first of the mall's original twelve restaurants to close, in 2002.
On the second floor is Johnny Rockets.
The 2,000 seat food court in the center of the third level contains in addition to over a dozen restaurants, a Ferris wheel and Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel Number 15, a carousel that was built in 1907 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. In May 2009, mall management announced that the then-101-year-old carousel would be disassembled and removed the following month. In 2009, the carousel was replaced with a modern, two floor, Venetian carousel made by Bertazzon of Italy and owned by Island Carousels.
The fourth floor, also called ThEATery (a portmanteau of "theater" and "eatery"), includes several casual dining restaurants, such as Buffalo Wild Wings, T.G.I. Friday's, Chili's, East, Stir Crazy, Outback Steakhouse, Dave & Buster's, McDonalds, Tony Roma's, IHOP and Yard House. East, which serves Japanese cuisine, has been praised in particular. Its selling point is a conveyor belt that moves items at eye level, which can be selected by diners, who pay for them later. The restaurant's Philadelphia Roll, which is made with salmon, caviar, avocado and cream cheese, was lauded by New York Times critic Joe Queenan.
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