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[quote user="henry6"] It has been tried but with little success.  No company actually understands how to feed people at speed rather than on speed. [/quote] Outside of outsourcing the food service on the Downeaster and the Piedmont (I believe that these were mentioned previously), where else has Amtrak outsourced the food service?   To give it a true market test, Amtrak should try it out of a major operating base.  For example, if it outsourced the food service on all of the trains operating out of Los Angeles, it would cover long distance and short haul trains.  The service may have to be subsidized, at least initially, but if it were structured properly, I'll bet a private operator could deliver a better service than is currently the case. Seemingly forever people said that the electric power industry could not be de-regulated and opened to competition. They were wrong.  It has happened in many places with good results.  The biggest hurtle were the orthodox people who insisted that it could not be done.  And to prove it they insisted that those who favored a market solution for the power industry should not be allowed to try it.
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