Is it reasonable for us to expect notification from Amtrak about the changes?
After all, meals are still included in the fare for sleeper berths.
Define 'fresh cooked'.
I wonder how much of the food served on LD trains is partially cooked at the commissary before the food is put on the train.
Are the eggs scrambled in the commissary and loaded onto the train in gallon jugs?
Are the garlic mashed potatoes made from a powder?
Are the roasted potatoes cut and seasoned at the commissary?
How I define fresh cooked is that the food is raw, sesoned, and cooked on the train. AFAIK, many of the dishes in the dining cars are cooked from scratch. The bacon, eggs, breakfast items, fish, chicken and most assuredly steaks are all cooked in a dining car on the grill. On a few routes the meals are brought to the cafe, pre-cooked and re-heated in a convection oven. Reheated eggs are often rubbery and tasteless while fresh cooked eggs are soft and tasty. Fresh French toast in the dining cars has been good while the French Toast sticks in the Cafe car are terrible . There is a difference.
As I said before, we can accept a cafe car meal for one meal but to have to eat that pre-prepared fodder for four meals is unacceptable.