Our Story

<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cpfoodblog&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;230613-Our-Story&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cpfoodblog&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;230613-Our-Story&period;jpg" alt&equals;"230613 Our Story" width&equals;"773" height&equals;"768" class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24989" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Back in 2011&comma; our family had a two year old and infant sons&comma; but we did not let being a new and young family slow us down&period; As the economy was crumbling around us&comma; I&comma; Justin&comma; after acquiring domain names over the years&comma; decided to throw up a website discussing how our family saved money and afforded to travel more than the average family&period; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;inacents&period;com" rel&equals;"noopener" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">InACents&period;com<&sol;a> grew over the years&comma; sharing all kinds of family-friendly deals&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One of those deals happen to be participating in the My Coke Rewards program&comma; where we collected caps with codes in them and in return&comma; received free tickets to Cedar Point and Kings Island&period; At the time&comma; we were not season passholders&comma; and were your standard guests that went once&comma; or maybe a couple times per year&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On August 2&comma; 2013&comma; our family was casually enjoying a day at Cedar Point&comma; and my wife asked&comma; &&num;8220&semi;What if we create a website about Cedar Point food similar to those centered around Disney&quest;&&num;8221&semi; In a moment of awe&comma; I looked at her and said it was genius&period; So I immediately came home and started researching the idea to see if anyone had the idea and if there was a market for food information&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What I immediately found was there was a lot of people with questions about eating at Cedar Point&comma; but there was very little to no information online&period; So we purchased the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;cedarpointfoodblog&period;com">CedarPointFoodBlog&period;com<&sol;a>&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We had one other visit to Cedar Point on August 25&comma; 2013&comma; where we started to do some reconnaissance on what food options were available&period; However&comma; from there the idea just kinda sat given we had limited access to the park with free tickets&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As the 2014 season approached&comma; we began to continue our hunt for deals to be able to visit the park and create the content for the website&period; In addition to making a plan with My Coke Rewards free tickets&comma; we decided to join the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;coastercrew&period;net&sol;">CoasterCrew&period;net<&sol;a> because it got our family free access to the media event for the PipeScream&sol;Gemini midway on May 8&comma; 2014&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fortunately&comma; for the PipeScream media event&comma; they also gave us access to the entire park&comma; which afforded us an incredible opportunity to photograph every dining location and menu at Cedar Point&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For the 2014 season&comma; InACents&period;com was also selected as an official Cedar Point Blogger&comma; which also gave us access to the park for free several times during the year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Also to note&comma; around this time&comma; for legal reasons we decided to rebrand as the CPFoodBlog&period;com&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In 2014&comma; our family was able to visit Cedar Point and Wildwater Kingdom a total of 12 times&comma; including the inaugural <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;inacents&period;com&sol;2014&sol;07&sol;21&sol;review-cedar-point-coaster-campout&sol;">Coaster Campout<&sol;a>&comma; without the use of season passes&period; It was enough to get the website up and running&comma; build an initial audience&comma; and network with other enthusiasts&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>By the end of the 2014 season&comma; the website had built up enough of an audience&comma; that we elected to purchase season passes and go all-in with the concept&period; We kicked it off by going to our first ever visit to Knott&&num;8217&semi;s Berry Farm in November 2014&period; Besides building out the Cedar Point and <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;cpfoodblog&period;com&sol;park-food-guides&sol;wildwater-kingdom-food&sol;">Wildwater Kingdom<&sol;a> portions of our website&comma; it was also the first time we expanded into another park with our <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;cpfoodblog&period;com&sol;park-food-guides&sol;knotts-berry-farm-food&sol;">Knott&&num;8217&semi;s Food Guide<&sol;a>&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In January 2015 we added <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;cpfoodblog&period;com&sol;park-food-guides&sol;castaway-bay-food&sol;">Castaway Bay properties<&sol;a>&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>By April 2015&comma; we had expanded with <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;cpfoodblog&period;com&sol;park-food-guides&sol;kings-dominion-food&sol;">Kings Dominion<&sol;a> and <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;cpfoodblog&period;com&sol;park-food-guides&sol;carowinds-dining-guide&sol;">Carowinds<&sol;a> food guides&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In May 2015&comma; we partook in the first Kings Island Coasterstock&comma; which allowed us to expand into the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;cpfoodblog&period;com&sol;park-food-guides&sol;kings-island-food&sol;">Kings Island food guide<&sol;a>&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Also in May 2015&comma; we added a <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;cpfoodblog&period;com&sol;park-food-guides&sol;worlds-of-fun-dining-guide&sol;">Worlds of Fun food guide<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>By July 2015&comma; we added a <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;cpfoodblog&period;com&sol;park-food-guides&sol;canadas-wonderland-food&sol;">Canada&&num;8217&semi;s Wonderland food guide<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>September 2015&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;cpfoodblog&period;com&sol;park-food-guides&sol;dorney-park-dining-guide&sol;">Dorney Park food guide<&sol;a> was introduced&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Circling back to our family&&num;8217&semi;s deal hunting history&comma; you can say 2015 was the year of maximizing the benefits of a Platinum season pass&excl; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We continue to visit as many of the Cedar Fair parks as we can each year&comma; or have an incredible group of people helping us at their various home parks&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In March 2024&comma; the CPFoodBlog rebranded as the FUNFoodBlog to better transition towards the future&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Our family has been extremely fortunate in the endeavor of the CPFoodBlog&period;com&comma; as it continues to grow by leaps and bounds&comma; reaching tens of thousands of visitors each month looking for information on food and news from all the Cedar Fair parks&period; Your support over the years has been pivotal in our success&comma; Thank You&excl; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If we can be of any assistance in your journey&comma; please feel free to reach out to us by sending us an <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;cpfoodblog&period;com&sol;contact&sol;">email<&sol;a>&comma; or connecting with us on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;CPFoodBlog&sol;" rel&equals;"noopener" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Facebook<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;CPFoodBlog" rel&equals;"noopener" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Twitter<&sol;a>&comma; or <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;CPFoodBlog&sol;" rel&equals;"noopener" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Instagram<&sol;a>&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;

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