Someone
leaked additional details on the AU forum. With no improvement to the bleak cafe menu (and no apparent ability to bulk up inventory provision of the existing items), this experiment is sure to be short-lived in its announced form.
It's too bad there couldn't at least be cold boxed meals boarded for the sleepers for one or two of the meal periods (as is done on the Empire Builder PDX section). Or, heck, monetize cold meals in the cafe car. Where's the creative entrepreneurship?
It's also a shame that a diner or cafe couldn't be retained as a table car for sleeper pax. The Amfleet II cafe car tends to be very crowded even when the full diner is also in service.
We can only (perversely) hope that CSI scores will drop fast enough to force a course-correction on this plan once reality hits.