Boraxo

There is no question the dining experience could be updated and improved, but elimination of freshly prepared food in dining car is not the answer.

If Amtrak CEO actually rode the long distance trains he would discover that his clientele are (1) mostly older people (some with $$, some not) and (2) millennials with no extra $$ and (3) foreign tourists who don't know better. Most of the people in the dining car were people who booked bedrooms or couchettes not the folks traveling in the cheap seats. Hip millennials who want to eat alone at their seats - well these don't exist as they fly B6 or some hip airline, not Amtrak long distance sleepers.

I would love to see a menu update for both the dining car and the snack bar, particularly to add healthy options. I would love to see dining hours extended beyond the fixed times. But getting rid of the dining car is just plain stupid, except as a cost cutting exercise (and we all know that's the real story here).