Originally Posted by sts603
That must be the case - something HP wisely must have kept. I believe all DEN flights from the east coast are exceptions as well.
The meal was a choice of: special K with fruit or a croissant with ham, cheddar chesse and chopped hard boiled egg, fruit and yogurt. I had the latter....
The ham was decent quality and it was obviously freshly prepared though heating it would have added to the taste. All in all not bad. The fruit was five gorgeous (and delicious - same quality as I had ex-PHL earlier this week) strawberries and a handful of grapes. Cherry vanilla yogurt - the same as they serve in the clubs. All in all, substantial serving and exceeding my expectations. All perfectly edible and even somewhat enjoyable. ^
Only downside was it was not catered with glassware - not sure if this was a mistake or the DFW-exception meal flights just don't get glasses or that transition hasn't been completed yet.
My PHL-LAS flight earlier this week feature a medley of US and HP glassware. The more substantial HP coffee mugs (not cups) were used. ^
While knowing very little to nothing regarding HP/US's catering(or lack there of), I know that to heat food requires the caterer to provision metal/foil containers to heat the food in. Apparantly, these containers can only hold one portion of food per container and thus it is cheeper to only provision cold food which does not require that extra container and thus reduces cost.
Again, I am strictly speculating but that may be why US only provisioned cold food on that flight.
Dan