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[quote user="ecoli"] [quote user="Sam1"] Five years to eliminate the losses on its food and beverage services?  Wow!  It is a good thing Amtrak does not have to play in a competitive market.  Can you image McDonald's or Chili's saying that it will eliminate the losses on its restaurants in five years?  A business, especially a so-called established business, does not get that much time to turn around its losses. [/quote] [quote user="Sam1"] You have taken one example and generalized it.  Bad logic.   Food service is an ancillary line. It is not a core competency for Amtrak or the airlines. Comparing food service to the corporation as a whole is not a good match.  Bankruptcy has nothing to do with food service on Amtrak. [/quote] First you compared Amtrak's food service operation to a pair of corporations whose entire business is food service ("Can you image McDonald's or Chili's saying that it will eliminate the losses on its restaurants in five years?") Now you say "Comparing [Amtrak] food service to the corporation as a whole is not a good match." I think you have it right the second time. If you like, we can discuss more examples of surviving corporations that have taken more than 5 years to turn around their businesses. Next up: GM. After that, some more airlines. Some corporations are subsidized by the government directly, others by being allowed to stiff their creditors and stockholders in bankruptcy court. [/quote] A food service line, which is an ancillary service, and a corporation workout are not comparable.  They are not even close.
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