Green Maned Lion
Engineer
No, it just shows the cost cutting is not limited to sleeper.
No.Would it seem to make sense that the Acelas serve meals at a given block of time, as they do on regular dining cars?. Breakfast is from 6:30-9:30. Lunch from 11:00 -2:00 and dinner 5:00-8:00pm. That way you could expect to eat a meal if you were on the train at those times. Just thinking out loud
Why not?No.Would it seem to make sense that the Acelas serve meals at a given block of time, as they do on regular dining cars?. Breakfast is from 6:30-9:30. Lunch from 11:00 -2:00 and dinner 5:00-8:00pm. That way you could expect to eat a meal if you were on the train at those times. Just thinking out loud
The corporation I work for is quite generous when it comes to business travel on trains, but if you fly you have to have a good reason why they shouldn't put you in cattle class. Such reasons can include a customer-facing meeting directly after a long flight when you don't want to be more tired than necessary. I think when it come to trains its mostly shortish trips so in the bigger picture of things the costs are not hurting anyone.The folks who have their travel expenses paid by their employer, or as a write off if self employed, don't really care what it costs!
Unfortunately more and more companies are prohibiting their employees from traveling first class or even business class unless the employee pays for the upgrade! (I never did figure out what the dividing line was between regular government peons like me and the VIPs who travel in style was! I know Joe Biden traveled for years on the Metro Liners and Acela between Wilmington and WAS on upgrades but he was a US Senator for 30 years, closest thing we have to being a member of the Royal family!)
No. Because that would deny meals to someone who is unfortunate enough to have his/her journey between 9:30 and 11:00. That would be yet another example of a solution looking for a problem that it is trying to solve , which I must admit is not that unusual in these forums either . And also it does not address the specific issue being discussed in this thread at all. Serving a meal on a 14 minute journey from New York Penn to Newark Penn will still be a problem.Would it seem to make sense that the Acelas serve meals at a given block of time, as they do on regular dining cars?. Breakfast is from 6:30-9:30. Lunch from 11:00 -2:00 and dinner 5:00-8:00pm. That way you could expect to eat a meal if you were on the train at those times. Just thinking out loud
True enough, and I didn't mean my comment to be pejorative. I thought a clarification was in order sinceAt least we were talking about meal service on trains. Many posts on AU do not discuss subjects relevant to op.The previous two anecdotes aren't entirely relevant here since Acela meal service is really nothing at all like meal service
on a LD diner. [though I have my own story about entering a diner with seemingly plenty of time to be served, only to
abandon the effort before my order was even taken]
The Acela train that I took left WAS at 12 noon. It rolled into Baltimore at around 12:30pm.Why can't they simply serve BAL pax first out of WAS? Otherwise, and I mean no disrespect to the OP, I wouldn't expect to enjoy a nice meal in a half-hour. Perhaps provisions for the Cafe are in order if, indeed, the 60 minute rule is in force. Even for a 30 minute ride, FC should get something for that 50-75% premium over BC.
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