How about adding one more staff to the dining car, have three overlapping shifts and keep the dining car open from 6:30 to 9:30 so people can wander in whenever they get hungry? The costs of the extra person would be paid out of the extra revenue from people eating more food.
Not to be a cynic, but it has to be expensive to drag around the weight and rolling resistance of a car no one can use most of the time.
Not to be a cynic, but it has to be expensive to drag around the weight and rolling resistance of a car no one can use most of the time.