SFO Catering Meltdown

BobDDuck said:
Memories of sitting up front reading the pages and pages of MELs and listening to the lone FA in the back curse as she drops a can on the floor and it rolls out thevopen galley door, while trying to cram it into an Atlas tray when she accidentally ordered too many and is trying to figure out which overhead bin to stuff the bag of extras in...
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I just did one of those full-body shivers reading that
 
BobDDuck said:
Memories of sitting up front reading the pages and pages of MELs and listening to the lone FA in the back curse as she drops a can on the floor and it rolls out thevopen galley door, while trying to cram it into an Atlas tray when she accidentally ordered too many and is trying to figure out which overhead bin to stuff the bag of extras in...
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Our galley is complete chaos. We have no trays for cans, and some of them are completely full. Sometimes I will be up front and hear somebody open the door to the drinks and hear an avalanche of cans and a lot of swearing.
 
BobDDuck said:
Memories of sitting up front reading the pages and pages of MELs and listening to the lone FA in the back curse as she drops a can on the floor and it rolls out thevopen galley door, while trying to cram it into an Atlas tray when she accidentally ordered too many and is trying to figure out which overhead bin to stuff the bag of extras in...
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Or listening to the FAs argue about whether they needed to keep the dozen or so bags of extra supplies that were taking up the entire closet that were never used but heaven forbid they get returned to catering or cabin service.
 
Karnage said:
Or listening to the FAs argue about whether they needed to keep the dozen or so bags of extra supplies that were taking up the entire closet that were never used but heaven forbid they get returned to catering or cabin service.
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or the seventeen cases of water stored in after overhead bins for...some reason
 
For your W&B consideration, it looks like a person weighs between 6-7 cases of water.

edit: just lol if you haven’t learned to hoard or “rat•” in any kind of hierarchical organization.
 
Minuteman said:
For your W&B consideration, it looks like a person weighs between 6-7 cases of water.

edit: just lol if you haven’t learned to hoard or “rat•” in any kind of hierarchical organization.
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Oh, I get it, and UAX flights were routinely incorrectly provisioned (or not provisioned at all in a completely predictable turn of events), and not having any water aboard on a 3-hour leg posed a problem for everyone.
 
Every restaurant near a United gate should be preparing takeaway box meals for passengers (and crew TBH) who will have virtually no in-flight food options.
 
Catering left my poor FAs two big bags of everything in the aft galley last trip. Just in big trash bags.
Anyway, this is known and anticipated.
 
My crew meals, the past few years, have consisted of either:
• Two bags of pretzels and a cup of airplane coffee, or:
• On exceedingly rare, splendiferous occasions, corn flakes, UHT milk, and a banana.
 
🦈💜 said:
My crew meals, the past few years, have consisted of either:
• Two bags of pretzels and a cup of airplane coffee, or:
• On exceedingly rare, splendiferous occasions, corn flakes, UHT milk, and a banana.
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My crew meals have been in the terminal, because catering inevitably forgets, it is unappetizing or they some how fall into a wormhole to where the woodbine twineth between the catering truck and the cockpit.

Hard feelings are met with a shrug and a “I’ll see you in 15”.
 
Inverted said:
Y'all eat crea meals? 400k a year isn't enough to buy lunch or dinner? lol
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Meh...at my AArline, I usually avoid them with the exception of the transcon Flagship flights out of JFK on the 321T's that are being reconfigured soon. That food is actually decent...and I REALLY don't like the terrible stuff on the normal domestic rotation.
 
🦈💜 said:
Catering left my poor FAs two big bags of everything in the aft galley last trip. Just in big trash bags.
Anyway, this is known and anticipated.
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Apparently not anticipated since it's led to a service nightmare for the highest paying customers haha. Take away the free liquor and food and the experience is way different in Polaris.

Not to mention all the 200+ minute delays on the gate LOL
 
Richman said:
My crew meals have been in the terminal, because catering inevitably forgets, it is unappetizing or they some how fall into a wormhole to where the woodbine twineth between the catering truck and the cockpit.

Hard feelings are met with a shrug and a “I’ll see you in 15”.
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Outside of breakfast I've given up on crew meals. The boxed lunches are rarely edible or appealing and since the hockey puck has returned as the dessert option the hot meals have become even more unappealing.

Though I am concerned with the willingness and voraciousness with which of my recent FOs have jumped at the chance of eating two meals at once. Makes me wonder if they're getting enough to eat at home.
 
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