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I adore dining cars. There is something SO COOL about a self-contained restaurant which takes in power, water, and ingredients in one side and delivers fed peop
by zackbloom 7y ago
I adore dining cars. There is something SO COOL about a self-contained restaurant which takes in power, water, and ingredients in one side and delivers fed people out the other. For people who don't know the first floor of these cars is generally a kitchen, the second a dining room where folks order (ordered) off a menu and were served food by a waiter. They've been a part of American trains since at least the mid-1880s, but no longer...
- beamatronic 7y agoI hope someone buys one and tows it to San Francisco and sets up a hip new restaurant in it.
- samatman 7y agoThey could call it something cool that evokes its history as a dining car! I’m thinking ‘diner’ would be a good choice...
- llampx 7y agoIt has to be something ungoogleable and be a word that's commonly used in everyday life. I'm thinking "grub" or even "food"
- hcs 7y agoOf some interest, the diner aesthetic has a lot to do with railroads: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-diners-look-like-trains https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-diners-look-lik...
- phyzome 7y agoIf you assume they're correct about the dining car being less popular, I wonder what would happen if they rebranded it to draw on "food truck" imagery. :-)
- ip26 7y agoHell, don't just evoke food trucks, make a business opportunity for food truck operators. Lease the diner car, or hook in privately owned diner cars. They could create a whole new sector of food trucks.