This thread invites sort of a meal log for Business Class dining.
I was in BC from SJC to PDX on July 29/30 and enjoyed breakfast in my favorite stretch in the dining car, out of KFS along Klamath Lake. I was seated with a young SoCal couple who had read about the water rights battles in that region and were interested to see some of the avian life that depends on it. It wasn't a hearty breakfast, but it was good. No one came to ask for reservations for lunch.
On August 5 I rode the Thruway bus from SSD to PDX. Because I was to be in BC from PDX to DAV I was able to leave my bags in the Metropolitan Lounge. Wilf's fine dining in the station is not open till dinner time. The snack bar has fish and chips that were better than fast food restaurants and also offers Korean dishes besides the usual items. Tables, however, were removed for COVID reasons. I could have taken my food back to the lounge but chose to sit where I could watch the line for the noon northbound Cascades stretch across the station and out the baggage department / bus parking door. Station staff culled the BC latecomers out of the line and showed them where to check in at the Metropolitan Lounge.
In BC on Train 11 no one asked us for dinner reservations, but the car attendant took cafe car orders for LL passengers not able to navigate the stairs. I walked to the cafe during a stop and found that there were a couple of types of fresh sandwiches I had not seen before and that brings their overall cafe offerings up to Greyhound standards.
Breakfast on August 6 was at the Neighborhood Bakery (across from the Davis depot) as before. While waiting in collegiate Davis for delayed Train 6, what seemed to be the Princeton alumni club met at adjacent tables.
There should be capacity for BC dinners on Train 14 PDX>SEA because the sleeper volume north of PDX is usually lower. The likelier problem on that segment is being out of items.
I should add that on LD trains that I rode this summer (1, 6, 11, 14, 19, 50) they finally have begun clarifying in announcements that they are not inviting the coach passengers to the diner. When that policy began, they invited confrontations by not telling coach passengers of the new policy until they got to the dining car for breakfast.
I was in BC from SJC to PDX on July 29/30 and enjoyed breakfast in my favorite stretch in the dining car, out of KFS along Klamath Lake. I was seated with a young SoCal couple who had read about the water rights battles in that region and were interested to see some of the avian life that depends on it. It wasn't a hearty breakfast, but it was good. No one came to ask for reservations for lunch.
On August 5 I rode the Thruway bus from SSD to PDX. Because I was to be in BC from PDX to DAV I was able to leave my bags in the Metropolitan Lounge. Wilf's fine dining in the station is not open till dinner time. The snack bar has fish and chips that were better than fast food restaurants and also offers Korean dishes besides the usual items. Tables, however, were removed for COVID reasons. I could have taken my food back to the lounge but chose to sit where I could watch the line for the noon northbound Cascades stretch across the station and out the baggage department / bus parking door. Station staff culled the BC latecomers out of the line and showed them where to check in at the Metropolitan Lounge.
In BC on Train 11 no one asked us for dinner reservations, but the car attendant took cafe car orders for LL passengers not able to navigate the stairs. I walked to the cafe during a stop and found that there were a couple of types of fresh sandwiches I had not seen before and that brings their overall cafe offerings up to Greyhound standards.
Breakfast on August 6 was at the Neighborhood Bakery (across from the Davis depot) as before. While waiting in collegiate Davis for delayed Train 6, what seemed to be the Princeton alumni club met at adjacent tables.
There should be capacity for BC dinners on Train 14 PDX>SEA because the sleeper volume north of PDX is usually lower. The likelier problem on that segment is being out of items.
I should add that on LD trains that I rode this summer (1, 6, 11, 14, 19, 50) they finally have begun clarifying in announcements that they are not inviting the coach passengers to the diner. When that policy began, they invited confrontations by not telling coach passengers of the new policy until they got to the dining car for breakfast.
