Amtrak Calls On Top Chefs to Improve Meal Service Onboard

With top chefs like Seattle’s Tom Douglas, Michel Richard, and Sara Jenkins working to make Amtrak’s menu offerings more nutritious – and delicious, can that upgrade of the train’s tabletop be far behind?

The Washington Post is reporting that these top chefs met recently in the railcarrier’s Wilmington, Delaware kitchens with the goal to improve onboard dining and to change the way riders think about train cuisine. Accoring to The Post, “the goal is hipper, more healthful food to tempt the palates of the millions of annual passengers.”

“Everyone wants to stay current,” Tom Douglas, the James Beard Award-winning chef from Seattle, who is in his fifth year of developing dishes for Amtrak, told the newspaper. “Customers are more friendly when they’ve had a meal.”

With these three top chefs on board, we have no doubt that our future adventures onboard Amtrak will be tastier. Now, if we can just get them to improve the coffee they serve. 

You can read the entire Washington Post article by going here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/amtrak-gets-gourmet-advice/2013/06/10/df8eda8c-b0d6-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html