Will full service dining ever return to the Western trains?

[crescent-zephyr]

if it’s ok in restaurants why not on trains, planes, or hotel chains where your free breakfast is a stale pastry wrapped in plastic. Surely the opportunity to save money can’t be the reason.

The homewood suites that I recently stayed at had the full hot buffet available but masked employees plated the food for you. That’s a change I would love to see as buffets always make me a little nervous!

 

[Big Green Chauvanist]

Odd. This thread had many posts through September, 2020, then went dead until yesterday. Am I missing something in between? I just saw this sample western route menu and couldn't believe my eyes. Am I simply dreaming?

https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/...routes/Long-Distance-Dining-Car-Menu-0120.pdf
As I don't eat meat, there are two, count'em two, non-meat dinner possibilities and both look yummy. I plan to travel cross country in 2022 and was dreading being very limited in my eating choices.

 

[Cal]

Odd. This thread had many posts through September, 2020, then went dead until yesterday. Am I missing something in between? I just saw this sample western route menu and couldn't believe my eyes. Am I simply dreaming?

https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/...routes/Long-Distance-Dining-Car-Menu-0120.pdf
As I don't eat meat, there are two, count'em two, non-meat dinner possibilities and both look yummy. I plan to travel cross country in 2022 and was dreading being very limited in my eating choices.

This was the menu pre-Covid. No idea if it will be the one used when traditional dining is reinstated. However with more and more positive messages coming out, there is a possibility it will come back like this or better. We will just have to wait and see what unfolds

 

[Palmetto]

No need to wait to see what unfolds

https://www.amtrak.com/onboard/meals-dining/dining-car.html

 

[AmtrakBlue]

No need to wait to see what unfolds

https://www.amtrak.com/onboard/meals-dining/dining-car.html

Those are the pre-COVID menus (dated 01/20)

 

[Palmetto]

Oh. Then Amtrak's IT department should not be showing them in conjuntion with the comment about restarting traditional dining, don't you think?

 

[AmtrakBlue]

Oh. Then Amtrak's IT department should not be showing them in conjuntion with the comment about restarting traditional dining, don't you think?

The comments are in a box at the top of their existing page, just like the flex meal comments. I doubt they even thought about how users would think the menus were up-to-date.

 

[Cal]

Oh. Then Amtrak's IT department should not be showing them in conjuntion with the comment about restarting traditional dining, don't you think?

And since when have Amtrak's comments been truly reliable?