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“With a total $1.4 billion Amtrak taxpayer subsidy in just the past year, extravagant chef-designed dishes need to be considered for the chopping block,” the Florida congressman said. It does not sound like he is going after all food service.  He appears to be focusing on the high end (gourmet) meals served on the long distance trains.  Frankly, I have never had what could be classified as a gourmet meal on any of Amtrak's trains, and I have ridden most of them over the past decade. Approximately 2.2 per cent of Amtrak's system wide passengers book sleeping car space.  Meals are included in their fares.  According to the IG the cost of the meals is not covered by the implied meal component in the first class fares. By the same token, although the data is getting long in the tooth, again according to the IG's report, sleeping car passengers actually received a larger per passenger subsidy than coach passengers. Admittedly, I don't know if this is still true, but I suspect that it is.  Amtrak could discontinue the dinning cars and provide food service in the lounge cars. The Superliner lounge cars have the capacity to serve relatively decent eats, I am not so sure about the lounge cars on the single level trains. They have tables for folks to enjoy their eats. Moreover, if the dinning cars were eliminated, at considerable potential cost savings, the quality and variety of the meals offered in the lounge cars could be enhanced. As long as Amtrak just keeps on keeping on as if there is no reason to change, it will never improve its efficiency and effectiveness.  Based on several reports critical of the company's food service practices, it appears that the activity is ripe for reform.
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