Buy on Board M&S menu enhancements
Oct 11, 2017, 5:40 am
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Buy on Board M&S menu enhancements
Being Avios rich, I am one of the few people who welcomed the introduction of the BOB menu.
I flew recently in Traveller and I can not help to notice how all the healthy fresh options have been enhanced away. The menu got downgraded.
*No more fresh fruit salads
*No more chicken/vegetable salads
*No more yoghurt pots.
It is now basically a bunch of unhealthy snacks and poor sandwiches.
Do you think it was difficult to keep them fresh? Or were they not selling well?
I would welcome the introduction of new hot options but this does not seem to happen either...
I flew recently in Traveller and I can not help to notice how all the healthy fresh options have been enhanced away. The menu got downgraded.
*No more fresh fruit salads
*No more chicken/vegetable salads
*No more yoghurt pots.
It is now basically a bunch of unhealthy snacks and poor sandwiches.
Do you think it was difficult to keep them fresh? Or were they not selling well?
I would welcome the introduction of new hot options but this does not seem to happen either...
Oct 11, 2017, 5:48 am
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Oct 11, 2017, 7:40 am
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The same reason that the Croque-Monsieur has been enhanced away from CE ... far too popular, and nobody wanted the endless bloody healthy salads. Actually, most of the greenery seems to have gone too, so have a lump of cold pasta to go with your cold dehydrated protein element.
Oct 11, 2017, 7:51 am
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Already being discussed here :-
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Oct 11, 2017, 8:51 am
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No more fresh fruit salads
Just because it looks like a salad, doesn't mean it's healthy.
Oct 11, 2017, 10:15 am
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Oct 11, 2017, 10:56 am
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I suspect that the price point at which these sold doesn't make up for the catering and service costs associated with fresh foods, their storage and safety requirements.
After not many hours, those items are tossed and are unappealing even if not dangerous.
After not many hours, those items are tossed and are unappealing even if not dangerous.
Oct 11, 2017, 11:17 am
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Perhaps you're overly influenced by living in a country where breakfast (in my experience) consists of caramel sauce spread liberally on overly sweetened breads?
Oct 11, 2017, 11:26 am
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Um... maybe have a look at the calorie/fat/salt/sugar content and then comment.
Oct 11, 2017, 11:56 am
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Normal salad can often be smothered with sweet and oily dressing, thus leading to situations in places like wetherspoons where the bowl of chilli and rice has less calories than salad... I can't comment on the BA onboard one...
Never sure of yoghurt, be it low fat (higher sugar) or full sugar, only ones which appear to be relatively healthy are the ones containing no fruit and flavouring...
Still, so much for the wonderful choice of the Buy onboard service, eh?