NA Meal Service
Dec 18, 2018, 10:35 am
#31
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 125
Gate Gourmet runs airline catering kitchens all over the world. Optimum Solutions is a new one to me, so I googled them. Interesting is all I can say.......
Optimum Solutions
It appears that from their website: "OPTIMUM solutions’ pricing is well below industry standards as we work directly with manufacturers." So there is a good chance that yet someone else manufactured those sandwiches.
Optimum Solutions
It appears that from their website: "OPTIMUM solutions’ pricing is well below industry standards as we work directly with manufacturers." So there is a good chance that yet someone else manufactured those sandwiches.
Dec 18, 2018, 1:11 pm
#32
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: YVR
Programs: WS Nothing, AC Something, AS Gold. Too big for 737Max washrooms
Posts: 893
Dec 18, 2018, 2:23 pm
#33
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: YYJ
Programs: Air Canada 75K, WestJet Platinum, Marriott Titanium
Posts: 119
For me, the Fruit and Cheese plate in AS is the best thing in the air https://www.alaskaair.com/content/tr...food-and-drink I'll take that over pretty much anything on offer. I've even been in J on AS and asked to pay for one of those in preference to the J catering.
You are definitely right, Alaska does have a great cheese plate. The Beecher’s cheese is terrific and I like to pick up some when I’m at SeaTac.
Dec 18, 2018, 2:52 pm
#34
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: YVR
Programs: WS Nothing, AC Something, AS Gold. Too big for 737Max washrooms
Posts: 893
Dec 18, 2018, 3:39 pm
#35
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: The World
Programs: WS Platinum, Marriott Titanium, DL Gold, UA Silver
Posts: 1,478
They could even make it better - substantially better, I think - if they would just take it a bit further and plate these new hot food items.
It doesn’t need to be on fancy china. Even a plastic plate would do.
Just don’t plunk down a plastic-covered plastic tray in a fast food cardboard box. Presentation goes a long way, and serving food in a nice, thoughtful way is a big step up from handing me a package. Even if it’s the exact same food. (Face it. Almost all hot, J class airline meals are little more than glorified Lean Cuisine manufactured meals anyway.)
Having said that, I’m sure it’s easier said than done. (New process rolled out across the cabin crews, new tools, yadda yadda...)
It doesn’t need to be on fancy china. Even a plastic plate would do.
Just don’t plunk down a plastic-covered plastic tray in a fast food cardboard box. Presentation goes a long way, and serving food in a nice, thoughtful way is a big step up from handing me a package. Even if it’s the exact same food. (Face it. Almost all hot, J class airline meals are little more than glorified Lean Cuisine manufactured meals anyway.)
Having said that, I’m sure it’s easier said than done. (New process rolled out across the cabin crews, new tools, yadda yadda...)
Dec 18, 2018, 7:37 pm
#36
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Vancouver, B.C.
Programs: Marriott, Hilton, DL, AC Gate Lice, WS, UA
Posts: 110
Dec 19, 2018, 1:23 am
#38
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Vancouver
Programs: Aeroplan, Mileage Plus, WestJet Gold, AMEX Plat
Posts: 2,026
Delta doesn’t offer hot food in PE https://www.delta.com/content/dam/de...l_2018_NOV.pdf but the Tillamook cheese & fruit is a solid staple. I’m gonna wait and see what changes, if any, WS business will bring. They could do a much better job in the meantime by at least taking the food out of the cardboard box and as I mentioned it sounded like the FA’s aren’t set up to deliver the program successfully.
On the 787 the WS front cabin is intended to compete with Air Canada Signature Class or what Delta Calls Delta One. That is a multi-course meal.
While the Premium Cabin on the 787 and the front cabin on the 767 it is competing with Air Canada Premium Economy. Again that is a plated hot meal.
Dec 19, 2018, 1:29 am
#39
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Vancouver
Programs: Aeroplan, Mileage Plus, WestJet Gold, AMEX Plat
Posts: 2,026
They could even make it better - substantially better, I think - if they would just take it a bit further and plate these new hot food items.
It doesn’t need to be on fancy china. Even a plastic plate would do.
Just don’t plunk down a plastic-covered plastic tray in a fast food cardboard box. Presentation goes a long way, and serving food in a nice, thoughtful way is a big step up from handing me a package. Even if it’s the exact same food. (Face it. Almost all hot, J class airline meals are little more than glorified Lean Cuisine manufactured meals anyway.)
Having said that, I’m sure it’s easier said than done. (New process rolled out across the cabin crews, new tools, yadda yadda...)
It doesn’t need to be on fancy china. Even a plastic plate would do.
Just don’t plunk down a plastic-covered plastic tray in a fast food cardboard box. Presentation goes a long way, and serving food in a nice, thoughtful way is a big step up from handing me a package. Even if it’s the exact same food. (Face it. Almost all hot, J class airline meals are little more than glorified Lean Cuisine manufactured meals anyway.)
Having said that, I’m sure it’s easier said than done. (New process rolled out across the cabin crews, new tools, yadda yadda...)
If they wanted to match AC a slice of cake on another side plate and they are done.
Dec 19, 2018, 2:37 am
#40
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Posts: 1,652
Good news:
- 787 Cabin Managers (in charge of J Pods) are getting 15 days of service training in January.
- 787 FAs are getting 10 days of service training in January
I am proud of this and feel it is a big step forward... then it must be rolled out systemwide.
- 787 Cabin Managers (in charge of J Pods) are getting 15 days of service training in January.
- 787 FAs are getting 10 days of service training in January
I am proud of this and feel it is a big step forward... then it must be rolled out systemwide.
Dec 19, 2018, 6:15 pm
#41
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: YYZ/MGA
Programs: AA 1MM Lifetime Gold, AA Platinum, WS Gold, Marriott Bonvoy Gold
Posts: 7,607
I bet they get better food at the training centres than Plus passengers get now and for the foreseeable future.
Apr 10, 2019, 4:25 pm
#42
Join Date: Jan 2007
Programs: No single airline or hotel chain is of much use to me anymore.
Posts: 3,279
So the cut-off for buy-on-board sandwiches and wraps has been raised from two and a half to four hours, this includes routes like YYC-YYZ.
Of course it isn't as though these flights are not being catered, meals are still being served in Plus on flights longer than two and a half hours. So... load more food and sell it? Isn't that what a business dedicated to maximizing ancillary revenue do? Are you not stealing from your shareholders by failing to do so?
Of course it isn't as though these flights are not being catered, meals are still being served in Plus on flights longer than two and a half hours. So... load more food and sell it? Isn't that what a business dedicated to maximizing ancillary revenue do? Are you not stealing from your shareholders by failing to do so?
Apr 10, 2019, 5:10 pm
#43
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Calgary
Posts: 1,444
So the cut-off for buy-on-board sandwiches and wraps has been raised from two and a half to four hours, this includes routes like YYC-YYZ.
Of course it isn't as though these flights are not being catered, meals are still being served in Plus on flights longer than two and a half hours. So... load more food and sell it? Isn't that what a business dedicated to maximizing ancillary revenue do? Are you not stealing from your shareholders by failing to do so?
Of course it isn't as though these flights are not being catered, meals are still being served in Plus on flights longer than two and a half hours. So... load more food and sell it? Isn't that what a business dedicated to maximizing ancillary revenue do? Are you not stealing from your shareholders by failing to do so?