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Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Starbucks cafe car on a Swiss Federal Railways train

See the Starbucks press release, the Swiss Federal Railways press release and "Starbucks opens first train café in Switzerland," New York Daily News.

The NYDN story has some nice photos of the interior.

The café car is going through a nine-month test period.

It is definitely a method for enhancing food service on trains.  A problem though for commuter railroad services is that many run at capacity so adding such a car might reduce the number of seats.

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posted by Richard Layman @ 2:55 PM&Permanent Link

1 Comments:

At 5:28 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Of course many people might think that improving passenger rail service is something that should be pursued with a lot of determination. It might appear to many like it is ultimately an expression of the will of the people and their elected representatives if those improvements will actually be carried out or not.

There probably might be some debate about whether the Starbucks cafe car "is definitely a method for enhancing food service on trains".

Here in this blog post, commuter rail services are mentioned, and it seems like there are already a lot of discussions on the web about how commuter rail services possibly could be improved, f.e. here:

http://discuss.amtraktrains.com/index.php?/topic/58558-commuter-rail-why-not-a-more-attractive-exteriorinterior-design/

 

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