Rail Catering
Finland caters for the future but has the UK forgotten about Standard Class customers? A batch of new restaurant cars is being talked about for use on Finland’s long distance trains from Helsinki to the North of the country. This is good news for Finnish rail customers who can continue to enjoy the double delights of travelling by train and having a great meal at the same time for years to come. Apparently, the new design includes a buffet
bar and kitchen with meal service seating, plus, surprisingly, a second bar counter area for use at peak times. This will allow for extra serving capacity when the train is busy and is a novel way to reduce queuing at buffet counters. It also allows the operator to offer more choice to the passenger, perhaps having a difference in products between the two areas. This investment is really showing a
alternatives” for Standard Class passengers. It will be interesting to see what “alternative”
methods of service are planned in order to cope with the large numbers of people that these trains will hopefully carry. After all whilst we all know that First Class custom is important, there are normally far more Standard Class passengers and even they need to eat and drink!
commitment to catering for the whole spectrum of customers; something that I am worried may have been overlooked in the UK with the design of the new high speed trains. It seems that on these new train sets the centralised catering facility will be used to deliver the First Class services only and that there will be no central retail café or bar facilities at all. According to industry sources, these long
awaited trains will have “minimal catering service
IRCG team give WTCE in Hamburg the green light The International Rail Catering Group has agreed to hold its first main meeting of the year at the new World Travel Catering Exhibition in Hamburg (27th to 29th March). With the ever increasing speed of life, taking
the decision to combine our meeting with the new expo means that we will be able to attend the show and maximise our networking at the same time. See you there!
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