I used to be obsessed with it as a child but I now wonder if a good restaurant could really fit on a tram. I doubt it is really a proper restaurant. A party tram may well be a better idea. Proper restaurants are bigger, and with bigger kitchens.They don't cook the food on board, they get it delivered from local restaurants along the route and keep it warm until serving.
I used to be obsessed with it as a child but I now wonder if a good restaurant could really fit on a tram. I doubt it is really a proper restaurant. A party tram may well be a better idea. Proper restaurants are bigger, and with bigger kitchens.
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The head of the company, Paul O'Brien, said after 35 years and more than 3 million customers, the tram restaurants had not had any events that resulted in a serious injury to an employee or customer.
Mr O'Brien said Yarra Trams had given his company an impossible two-week deadline to fix the problem. The state's Bendigo-based tram maintenance workshops were unable to fit the restaurant trams into their schedule until 2020, Mr O'Brien said in a statement.
“We are urgently seeking a solution that doesn’t see 60 employees immediately forced out of work and the livelihoods of dozens of local Victorian suppliers put at risk, along with the special occasion plans of tens of thousands of tourists and Victorian families.”
Nicolas Gindt, CEO of Yarra Trams, said the operator would continue to support the restaurants, but concerns for the safety of patrons and employees was its primary concern.
“While we appreciate that this decision is difficult for the restaurant tram patrons and employees, we cannot allow trams to run on the network that do not meet safety standards,” he said.
Mr O'Brien rejected suggestions from Yarra Trams that their rolling restaurants were not safe.
"Yarra Trams has inspected our trams weekly since 2010 and up until two weeks ago had given us the all clear to run. How we can go from safe one week to unsafe the next? It is perplexing, to say the least."
Perhaps it has something to do with the withdrawal of the Route 35 City Circle W-Class trams for upgrading to W8, which seemed rather sudden. The City Circle service is being run by the 6 W8 trams (normally 12 trams) and has been reduced from a 12-min headway to a 30-min headway until the upgrades are completed. The article that the following RP thread is based on states:I'm absolutely certain that this is the same decision.
‘ The safety upgrade program will include the trams operated by the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant.’
https://www.railpage.com.au/f-t11398582.htm
In Paris, not uncommon in the smaller restaurants to see part of your meal coming out of another location, especially deserts.I used to be obsessed with it as a child but I now wonder if a good restaurant could really fit on a tram. I doubt it is really a proper restaurant. A party tram may well be a better idea. Proper restaurants are bigger, and with bigger kitchens.They don't cook the food on board, they get it delivered from local restaurants along the route and keep it warm until serving.
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