AS First Class Catering - Comments, Criticisms, Suggestions and Service Experiences
#107
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: sometimes, strangely, I find myself at home
Programs: I need to do better in managing my affiliations. Oops, I overshot the runway for status next year.
Posts: 648
Suggestion to improve upon the sacred ground of the fruit and cheese plate.
1. Please package the individually wrapped plastic knife on the outside of the box. Currently, it is under the fruit and cheese. So, I am required to dig with bare fingers through cut fruit and cheese like I am playing the game "Operation" to avoid touching food.
2. Please, in addition to the knife, provide a fork or even a substantial toothpick so I don't have to eat off the tip of a knife like some scene out of Crocodile Dundee goes to Burger King.
Thanks.
1. Please package the individually wrapped plastic knife on the outside of the box. Currently, it is under the fruit and cheese. So, I am required to dig with bare fingers through cut fruit and cheese like I am playing the game "Operation" to avoid touching food.
2. Please, in addition to the knife, provide a fork or even a substantial toothpick so I don't have to eat off the tip of a knife like some scene out of Crocodile Dundee goes to Burger King.
Thanks.
#108
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: British Columbia
Programs: AS MVPG100K, Marriott Marriott Titanium Elite, Hilton Gold
Posts: 7,263
Suggestion to improve upon the sacred ground of the fruit and cheese plate.
1. Please package the individually wrapped plastic knife on the outside of the box. Currently, it is under the fruit and cheese. So, I am required to dig with bare fingers through cut fruit and cheese like I am playing the game "Operation" to avoid touching food.
2. Please, in addition to the knife, provide a fork or even a substantial toothpick so I don't have to eat off the tip of a knife like some scene out of Crocodile Dundee goes to Burger King.
Thanks.
1. Please package the individually wrapped plastic knife on the outside of the box. Currently, it is under the fruit and cheese. So, I am required to dig with bare fingers through cut fruit and cheese like I am playing the game "Operation" to avoid touching food.
2. Please, in addition to the knife, provide a fork or even a substantial toothpick so I don't have to eat off the tip of a knife like some scene out of Crocodile Dundee goes to Burger King.
Thanks.
James
#109
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: sometimes, strangely, I find myself at home
Programs: I need to do better in managing my affiliations. Oops, I overshot the runway for status next year.
Posts: 648
Hi James, I use mind control and levitate the crackers into my mouth.
I am not agreeing it is all finger food. Apple slices are wet and cheese is oily and brie sticky. Crackers are drier and can be handled carefully by the edges.
I am not agreeing it is all finger food. Apple slices are wet and cheese is oily and brie sticky. Crackers are drier and can be handled carefully by the edges.
#110
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: British Columbia
Programs: AS MVPG100K, Marriott Marriott Titanium Elite, Hilton Gold
Posts: 7,263
James
#111
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: An Island Paradise Near Seattle
Posts: 599
Ive missed hearing the tinkle of ethanol-drenched ice in glassware. . . and while Im *mystified* by the continued absence of Sprite Zero, I could be mollified by the return of Actual Glassware to F . . .
#112
Join Date: Jan 2017
Programs: AS 100K
Posts: 184
I do agree that they are very messy though. Pretty much need a plate and fork to eat them without getting chocolate everywhere. I've been saving the little lavender wetnaps just for the purpose of cleaning my hands after the cookie. Still, I wouldn't mind not looking like a child at snack time.
#113
Join Date: May 2009
Location: EUG
Programs: AS MVP, AA MM, HH Diamond, MR Gold
Posts: 8,212
Can you only levitate crackers? After posting, I did consider gingerly openning the end of the package and sliding them out one by one. The wet apple slices, bleeding their juice, and the sticky Brie make it acceptable for a grown adult to suck their thumb and put their fingers in their mouth to satisfy that childhood hankering, or is that just me? lol
James
James
#114
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Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: Over the Bay Bridge, CA
Programs: Jumbo mas
Posts: 38,504
I must be a real Neanderthal. Never, ever even gave a thought to just eating my cheese and apples and grapes and crackers with my hands. Such a Neanderthal never even noticed that they were greasy, slimy, sticky (can't recall the other adjectives)...they were JUST fruit and cheese and crackers. Like you would eat fruit and cheese and crackers anywhere.
It isn't like AS has even given a flying fork regarding these "platters." I recall knives, but never a flying fork.
#115
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: bay area, ca
Programs: AS 100K, AA Gold, IC Diamond AMB, HH Diamond
Posts: 1,838
On todays AS 149 from SJC to KOA in F we still had the same cold options for food. However, my husband was given 2 cups of ice with his 2 mini Diet Cokes, and those of us ordering wine on this flight were given 2 full pre-poured plastic cups full delivered together. Im not complaining, I drank both. On all flights Ive taken to KOA since October Ive been given the cans and the cups, the prepour was new.
Looking forward to trying both hot options next week on our return.
Looking forward to trying both hot options next week on our return.
#116
Join Date: May 2009
Location: EUG
Programs: AS MVP, AA MM, HH Diamond, MR Gold
Posts: 8,212
Nope, never saw a bloody apple (British bloody or Snow White bloody?)
#117
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: LAX/ONT
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Posts: 518
#118
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: SAN
Programs: AS Mileage Plan 100k, Bonvoy Titanium
Posts: 979
Agree with this! Is it bad to book F just for the cookies?
I do agree that they are very messy though. Pretty much need a plate and fork to eat them without getting chocolate everywhere. I've been saving the little lavender wetnaps just for the purpose of cleaning my hands after the cookie. Still, I wouldn't mind not looking like a child at snack time.
I do agree that they are very messy though. Pretty much need a plate and fork to eat them without getting chocolate everywhere. I've been saving the little lavender wetnaps just for the purpose of cleaning my hands after the cookie. Still, I wouldn't mind not looking like a child at snack time.
#119
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: British Columbia
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James
#120
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: SFO
Programs: UA 1K, AA EXP, Hyatt Glob, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Plat, Total Wine & More Reserve
Posts: 4,441
It would also make it a lot easier to detach the grapes from the stem.