Lead
The development of trains as a means of transportation reflects the improvement of the mainland's economic level through its escalating speed and the current situation of routes throughout the country.
Trains are not only one of the most common means of transportation, but also one of the most familiar means of transportation that have accompanied people since ancient times.
The improved economic level and the scientific and technological level of development and growth have made the train achieve a huge leap in speed, and train travel has become the first choice for more and more people to travel.
However, many people have found that the train lunch box, which was supposed to be popular on the train, is becoming more and more "unpopular" today.
A train lunch that no one cares about.
There is obviously food on the train, but everywhere you go, you can see people eating instant noodles and self-heating hot pot, but you can't see anyone eating a boxed lunch, and there are even people who would rather starve than eat a boxed lunch on the train.
What is the reason for this?
A retired flight attendant told the truth, and the reason why no one seems to care about the boxed lunches on the train is mainly three points.
The first is more expensive, the second is less tasteful, and the last and third are environmental factors.
First of all, let's talk about the price, we all know that when taking the train, in addition to the train ticket, another thing that makes everyone headache is the price of the lunch box on the train.
In the past, canteen-style box lunches were generally only a dozen yuan, but now?
If you want to eat a relatively good box lunch, the price generally starts at 20 yuan.
And the lunch box of 20 yuan is not necessarily delicious, and the expensive train lunch box may even cost more than 30 yuan, which makes many passengers start to think, since the train is so expensive, it is better to buy it outside, the food that can be bought outside is more and cheaper, with good matching, and the cost performance is very high.
Secondly, there is the problem of taste, and the evaluation of train passengers on the train lunch box is generally that the taste is not good enough, and some can even be said to be undelicious, and even difficult to swallow.
This is completely unacceptable for some people who are obsessed with food, so they would rather spend more money on food outside than buy a higher-priced, poor-tasting boxed lunch on the train.
Finally, there is people's habits.
As we all know, the hygienic conditions on the train are far less than those on the plane, which is to ensure the safety of the flight, the meals will be sealed and packaged, and the lunch box will be made with high-end ingredients.
But on the train, everyone is allowed to eat on their seats, and it doesn't matter, so everyone will not deliberately go to the train to eat, but wait until they reach their destination.
When it comes down to it, there will be a lot of boxed lunches on the train, and everyone doesn't want to eat them.
But after all, there are still people on the train who want to eat, so what should they do?
There will be such a miraculous phenomenon later, when buying tickets for passengers who buy hard or soft sleepers, many people will bring their own things on the bus, and those who buy hard sleepers or soft sleepers, what do they bring?
After all, isn't it just to prepare to go out in advance just to eat a train lunch box for yourself?
Since everyone is reluctant to eat the train box lunch, no one prepares to eat it in advance.
The history of the train bento.
The train's lunch box is unique to us in China, and the train does not sell its own food, mainly because the main responsibility of train transportation is to transport passengers, not to provide catering services, so no one specializes in trains for selling food.
This also creates an embarrassing situation, that is, the boxed lunches on the train do not stay in one place, such as some small cities along the way, the boxed lunches on the train will be local specialties.
But if the bento boxes sold on the train must be related to the cities they pass through, then it will cause a kind of confusion, after all, China is a vast territory, and it is impossible to stop passing through the cities along the way.
Even high-speed trains pass through a wide range of cities, and many stations of high-speed trains called "bullet trains" are named after cities.
In the eighties and nineties of the last century, after the reform and opening up, the society was full of new things, and people's minds began to come out of the feudal era and enter the real era of reform and opening up.
At that time, the most urgent need was train tickets, and at that time, it was almost not easy to buy train tickets.
In order to buy train tickets, everyone will go to queue up in advance, in the era of material shortage, it is good for people to be full, where there will be too many choices.
At that time, the lunch boxes sold on the train were mainly non-greasy, delicious and easy to preserve, and the quality of the train lunch boxes was relatively high and was recognized by people, whether it was on the train or in the cities passed along the way.
But in the 90s, after the reform of the planned economy, the market mechanism was established, and the catering industry was also included, and there was a reasonable price between supply and demand.
At this time, the lunch boxes sold on the train began to change, and the ingredients were mainly made according to the market price, and there was no significant change.
But a lot of effort has been put into the production and packaging.
In the 90s, most people were lazy and more open-minded than the older generation.
When people eat, they also spend more time playing with their mobile phones, so it becomes rare for people to go out to eat.
Moreover, the take-out industry was also established during that period, so the quality of boxed lunches on the train began to decline, mainly because of the desire to increase the sales of boxed lunches.
Nowadays, people's choices are even wider, not only rice, but also all kinds of greasy dishes, and the boxed lunches on the train are even more unbearable.
There is hope for high-speed rail.
However, after entering the era of high-speed rail, the train lunch box will usher in new opportunities, especially in high-speed rail catering, and there will definitely be a better yearning in the future.
With the escalation of the extremely popular number of high-speed rail passengers, the railway bureau began to launch a takeaway service, and also tried the combination of high-speed rail catering and high-speed rail.
The biggest advantage of takeaway on the high-speed rail is that it allows passengers to order meals in advance, so as to prepare in advance to avoid the trouble of passengers queuing up after getting on the train.
At the same time, after the official opening of the high-speed rail, the railway bureau will also launch the high-speed rail dining car, which can be centered on the high-speed rail dining car and bring the passengers around the passengers to the high-speed rail dining car for dinner, which greatly avoids the situation that passengers miss the high-speed rail because they go to the dining car to eat.
At the same time, the combination of high-speed rail catering and high-speed rail allows passengers to eat genuine high-speed rail catering when they are at high-speed rail stations.
It can be seen from the lunch boxes on the high-speed rail that the quality of the train lunch box is about the same as the quality of the high-speed rail itself, and only the quality of the high-speed rail is high enough, and the quality of the lunch box on the train can keep up with the pace of the high-speed rail.
epilogue
We also know what causes the lack of interest in train lunches, but the problem that needs to be solved is how to improve the quality of train lunches so that people are willing to accept them.
However, the train lunch itself is a big expense, and if the train station can cooperate with local specialties to launch a special train lunch, then people will definitely be willing to try it and be willing to buy it.
People's tastes have changed, but it does not mean that the train lunch box must cater to people's tastes, and the train lunch box can also make some new ideas and try some new flavors, but this is a great test of the craftsmanship of the lunch maker on the train.
After all, the biggest way to produce a train lunch is to have a choice and not waste ingredients.
Therefore, the quality of the train lunch box still depends on the person.