I am on 30 and wanted to update this thread regarding meals. The first comment is regarding dinner. As another thread discussed, Amtrak's menus have been updated and some items from the lunch section of the menu are clearly marked "also available as a dinner option."
When I went for dinner, I requests the Caesar Salad with chicken. The waiter said "no that is only for lunch". I pointed out the notation regarding it being available for dinner and he pointed to the dinner flap of the menu and said "no, we're only serving from this section."
So I ordered the pasta. The guy next to me then orders a burger. I said "isn't the burger also from the lunch menu?" And the waiter just said "do you want a burger instead of the pasta?" I said "no, I want the Caesar salad" and he said its not available. Whatever.
Now for lunch. I asked my SCA if both breakfast and lunch would be available and he said that I could indeed get breakfast early and then get an early lunch.
So I had breakfast at 6:30. At breakfast, I asked the waiter if lunch would be available and he said no, because we were on time.
When they made the last call for breakfast at 11:30AM when we were leaving Martinsburg, I went up to the diner to see what would happen.
The LSA said "are you here for breakfast?" And I said that I had already had breakfast but was interested in lunch.
The LSA said ok we have burgers. She nodded to the waiter, who was stretched out in a booth talking on his cell phone. He hung up his phone and went to the LSA and said "I though we weren't doing lunch" and she told him "he can have a burger."
The waiter looked very disappointed but got an order ticket and told me where to sit. As I sat down he told me "we're not supposed to serve you lunch because we're not two hours late."
With that, I had had enough of his crap so I said "if you don't want to serve me lunch that's fine, I'll just call Amtrak" and I got up and walked out.
I now know why so many people complain about the meals on the Cap Limited.