Menu Choice email?

[finleyd]

I'm leaving in 1 week on the Silver Star, should I expect an email from Amtrak to pick my choices for lunch/dinner, wasn't sure if they are still doing this?

 

[Steve4031]

It does not seem to make a difference. When I’ve selected from the email they have not asked for my name on the train. In fact on my last to trips on west coast trains I was not even asked to provide room and car number on the empire builder in the diner.

 

[AmtrakBlue]

I did not get an email for the LSL for either of my trips in October

 

[user 14106]

This was only being done in the east - it was never expanded west because flex dining out west was a temporary thing with Covid. Seems like maybe they stopped it in the east too with one of the more recent menu changes.

 

[WaterLevel]

I took the CapLtd and LSL late in Oct this year, I didn't get an email about food.

 

[joelkfla]

I took the CapLtd and LSL late in Oct this year, I didn't get an email about food.

Ditto on the Meteor over Halloween weekend.

 

[me_little_me]

And the Cardinal in October/November.

 

[BalmyZephyr]

And the Cardinal in October/November.

Nor the Cardinal this coming week. We are bringing instant camp food and a mini-kettle just in case.

 

[CraigInNC]

When I traveled on the Star in March I received a food email. When I traveled on the Star earlier this month I did not. In both cases my SCA took my dinner and breakfast order and I ate both in the dining car. Of course if you select something you are not bound by it. Not sure what advantage pre-ordering has other than gives Amtrak some basis for inventory.

 

[neroden]

When I traveled on the Star in March I received a food email. When I traveled on the Star earlier this month I did not. In both cases my SCA took my dinner and breakfast order and I ate both in the dining car. Of course if you select something you are not bound by it. Not sure what advantage pre-ordering has other than gives Amtrak some basis for inventory.

I would like it if Amtrak could get its inventory right given their history of understocking....

 

[BalmyZephyr]

Leaving on sleeper NER 67 in a few hours, and Cardinal 51 tomorrow morning, no food email. Did get the pre-Covid checkoff email for each leg (we reserved them separately). Also got our BidUp for a Cardinal bedroom declined.

 

[me_little_me]

I would like it if Amtrak could get its inventory right given their history of understocking....

Understocking? Amtrak? No way!

They didn't load any beef meals on board in Chicago for our eastbound Cardinal trip. How do they manage to do things like this? Is the incompetence like water - it flows downhill?