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[quote user="schlimm"] [quote user="Sam1"] For the six years prior to 2012, Amtrak lost $526 million on food service or an average of $87.6 million per year.  In FY11 the loss was $84.6 million, of which $73.9 million or 87 per cent was incurred by the long distance trains.  In the same year the short corridor trains recovered 95 per cent of their food service costs, compared to 78 per cent on the NEC and 44 per cent for the long distance trains. A major culprit appears to be the lack of coordination and accountability between operations and marketing for on-board food services.   [/quote] So if I ride coach on the Empire Builder and order the Amtrak Signature steak dinner for $25.75, it sounds like it isn't that the food is underpriced compared to a middling restaurant, it is that the costs to prepare, etc. apparently are $58.52.  Utterly absurd. [/quote] One of the points in the aforementioned study or audit that I left out relates to the long distance trains. The original study showed the food costs for each of the long distance train routes.  However, the table was  redacted. No reason was given.  Why?  I don't have a clue.
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