Delta Sky Clubs new menu options-Will United follow?
 

Since UA is well known to duplicate DL at almost every turn, how long until we see enhanced menu options with a membership price increase at the United Clubs?

To be fair a Sky Club membership cost more than a United Club membership, but DL also comps it to their Medallion members. That said - the new SC menu certainly exceeds the UC offerings. I bolded a few of them below:


Dive into our premium new menu, full of healthy breakfast selections, hearty soups, tasty salads, sweet desserts and much more.

Delta Sky Club is committed to keeping you fueled for your travels with healthy selections and delicious flavors. Several of the bold bites below were selected by Club members like you in spring 2014, and the addition of premium new items represents one more way the Club is investing in your travel experience. Click on select menu items to see nutritional information. Bon appétit and bon voyage!

Start Your Day Right
Locally Sourced Bagels
Thomas English Muffins: Regular and Honey Wheat
Oatmeal
Hard Boiled Eggs
Otis Spunkmeyer Mini Muffins: Banana, Blueberry, Chocolate Chip
Cold Cereals: Raisin Bran, Cheerios, Corn Flakes, Granola
Yoplait Greek Yogurt: Strawberry and Honey Vanilla
Fruit Salad
Skim Milk, 2% Milk
Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Promise Soft Spread, Butter
Dickinson’s: Orange Marmalade, Grape Jam, Strawberry Preserves
Smucker’s: Honey and Peanut Butter
Mixed Raisins

Dig Into Delicious Lunch And Dinner Options
King Nut Ranch: Pretzel Mix and Zesty Nut Mix
Skinny Pop Popcorn
Tomato Basil Flatbread Crackers
Dip/n Classic Hummus
Dip/n Olive Tapenade
Rondele: Garlic & Herb and Peppercorn Parmesan Spread
Cookie Tree: Dark Chocolate Chunk and Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Kettle Cuisine: Tomato and Garden Vegetable Soup
Kettle Cuisine Italian Wedding Soup
Olives (Country Olive Mix, Mediterranean Meze & Nicoise)
Marinated Mushrooms
Vegetable Crudités: Carrots, Celery, Broccoli, Red Pepper Strips
Fresh Whole Fruit: Apples, Oranges, Bananas
Green Salad
Pecan & Cranberry Chicken Salad
Balsamic and Ranch Dressing
Ranch Vegetable Dip

Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
Mini Assorted Cheesecakes

Items may vary by Club location and time of day. Menus at international Club locations may vary.


SunLover

Olives and soup is a current US Airways Club offering. Looks like they treat 'new' AA as a competitor they should benchmark to...

And, sadly, UA will argue that we're confident that we have a competitive product and don't need to change anything :rolleyes:

Why did you bold Oatmeal? It is currently part of the breakfast spread in the United Clubs.

Pretty sure I haven't seen it in a couple clubs. I also think the popcorn should be bold, and also the crudites (a bag of carrots isn't quite the same thing).

I would say the menu slightly exceeds the UC menu, but they really just list a ton of stuff to make it seem like a lot. Hot soups are a nice addition I guess but if they're anything like the soups they serve in the GF lounge then I wouldn't care for them anyway.

I wouldn't mind the addition of a few of those things, or at least some variety. About the only thing the UC varies today is the snack mix types.

Kettle Cuisine makes pretty decent soups

the salads and olives are nice

overall a much higher quality product than some packaged cheese and gerbil canisters.

Think it's one of the options you can click to get additional details on nutritional value and see what the dish includes

Read the last 2 sentences of the first paragraph in the OP.

I actually don't see much here, some soup and dip. Certainly not worth the huge $ increase DL instituted.

I like "Locally sourced bagels"....in UA speak that means month old previously frozen bagels.

Delta's offering appears FAR superior to the dire offerings in the United Club. There is NOTHING fresh on offer at the United Club. Salads? In your dreams!

Note that DL only gives SC memberships to DIAMONDS, which requires 125,000 status miles. It's certainly not comped for every Medallion. Access rules for same day SkyTeam international itineraries are similar to the *Gold rules and require 50,000 status miles on DL.

Also the new menu doesn't list cheese and crackers (or similar). Some of us will be sad to see that go.

Delta Sky Clubs new menu options
 

I love how each time DL adds something everyone on here asks if UA will match. It's been said over and over, if it's a cut, United will match it immediately. If it's an addition, it doesn't get matched.

Oh, UA duplicates DL's bad only; they don't emulate any of the changes for the better DL has made. :D

We'll probably see UA hike the UC membership fees anyway (and find some way to spin it as a positive, like, "This will enable us to better address the travel needs of our core customer base," whatever that means). But we won't see them bringing in better snack options.

OMG
 

The memories . . .

Rondele: Garlic & Herb and Peppercorn Parmesan Spread

UA had better step it up.

^^^

Please tell me where this UC oatmeal is located? I've never seen any.

You do not like FRESH UA carrots... How dare you ha ha ha...

It was here a half-hour ago in the GFL at ORD. :p

Are we talking food or Dragon's attitude? ;)

I've definitely seen it, but it's only in some clubs. If memory serves, last time I had it was ORD, B18. I'm about 75% certain the other clubs in ORD don't have it.

I'm surprised at the comments that this menu isn't much different than UA. The soups and salads alone are a huge improvement. I used to love having a bowl of soup and olives as a light lunch in the PHL US club.

I see crackers in the list.

And 2 cheese spreads, which I prefer over the UC cheese. But that is definitely a personal preference item.

I said UCs, not GFLs ;)

They were serving the oatmeal for lunch? :eek:

Did you eat any? :D

At ORD, in the C-Club, it's at the service station between the bar and the windows. It's in the new F-Club usually at the service station furthest from the door, but I've seen it at the closest to the door as well. In the older B-club (B5-ish?), it's at the service station closest to the bar, back over where the TV used to be before the re-model.

I haven't really passed through other airports in the AM recently.

I love how there are like 50 things on the Delta list including proper food like salads etc, 90% of all the other things still far surpass the occasional carrot and cheese and cracker offering at the United club, and yet the apologists still have heads in the sand.


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Right on target!! When I saw the first message in the thread, I thought that this was a sick joke. Fare in UC is dreadful; gruel is better. What's the old saying about slim and none?

I've seen it recently (at breakfast time of course) in all the UCs at ORD. It's never been offered at any of the UCs at IAD which I frequent.

OK - maybe it's an ORD thing then...I haven't seen it elsewhere. Definitely not at any of the NYC-area clubs.

It's definitely at ORD clubs most of the time (wasn't in C18 early morning last Friday). They even have raisins, brown sugar and granola that you can spice it up with.

It's usually quite good... I look forward to having some tomorrow morning!

The salads and soup would be a nice addition in the afternoon though. At lot of the other stuff seems to be more marketing mumbo jumbo than any real substance.

Forget the soup... can we get the free Baileys?

Yes ... these "will UA follow" threads are getting lame(r?) with every new iteration.

I would also include the chicken salad as it is actually creeping towards real food there, and would go great on top of some fresh greens. And the cheesecake for dessert is an upgrade from the UA cookies.

The best dessert of all ^ at least it is still free on board in the premium cabins, but if you get a few people with the same good idea it goes rather fast.


SunLover

Yeah no. Not a premium flyer at all but UA needs a serious culture change in the corporate offices... maybe listen to the customers?

Never seen oatmeal in EWR.

Half of the packs are rotten, lol.

^^^THIS^^^

Let's all look back at the top of page 1 and decide whether having oatmeal at one airport makes a difference in the overall picture. I think we can all agree on the fact that it's meaningless. Ditto for whether a given item exists in the GFL as opposed to the UC

Delta: 98
United: 2
:)

Wow too funny, yet very factual!

Should make a bigger list :)

They'd have to pry Smi$ek out of office first...er I mean the filming set of the next safety video.

Don't worry, they won't change a thing and say that the current amenities and food are a direct result of our valued feedback they were listening to.

Let me add that to my list for Santa Claus...........

upgrade? "Ain't no way, no how..."