Minnie's breakfast is our absolute favorite of both WDW and DL for the number of characters you see and the variety of characters. I think the minimum number of characters we have seen is 7 with the maximum on a non-busy day where every character came to our table at 11. We love the fact that you may have a surprise as to who shows up at any given time. We love the fact it is not a constant set rotation like WDW or like some of the other DLR meals have no switched to being. Goofy's Kitchen used to be like that- but then they went to a set rotation of 5 characters (Goofy, Minnie, Pluto, Chip, Dale) and Mickey no longer was even there so we quit going there. It went from feeling special to feeling like any WDW character meal. Although with a 4 year old- if she likes those characters it would probably still feel pretty special to her! At Minnies, pretty much Every time we have been there we have seen Minnie, Hook, Fairy Godmother, Chip or Dale (or both), Max, and a Pooh Character (Pooh, Tigger, or Eeyore and sometimes more than one), but we have seen a ton of other characters there over the years too. Rafiki is there quite a bit- but we have not seen him every time Over the past several years, on different visits we have run into Alice, Mad Hatter, Tweedle Dum, Brer Fox, Mary Poppins Penguin, Pinochio, Gepetto, Susie (mouse from Cinderella), Perla (mouse from Cinderella), and probably a few others I have forgotten. As one poster mentioned, sometimes you will spot a character on the other side of the restaurant or in outside seating (or inside if you are outside) that will not make it to your table- we have seen this with Rafiki and Eeyore when we were there. The characters follow a set rotation--- but I think there are times that they switch characters out-- and also busy times where one character might be doing only the outside area- or maybe only 1/2 of the restaurant while a different character does the other half. If the character is in your area of the restaurant, they should make it to your table. If you spot the character out a window-- or if you are in the center and see the character on the half of the restaurant where your table is not--- there is a change that one may not get to you. If you are inside and see a character outside or inside in the other half of the restaurant that is an absolute favorite--- I would ask a CM or handler (usually we see one standing between the two sides of the restaurant) if that character is coming to your area and if not that if there is any way your child can see them as it is an absolute favorite. They may say no- but we saw a family with a little one ask that once and the CM took the child and parent over near the other side of the restaurant and had the character come see them.
