It is expected that instead of food cooked in pantry, the freshly cooked food from base kitchens located along the major routes ( at Rly stations every 200 km) shall be loaded on the trains and served immediately or within 2 hrs after heating in microwave inside pantry car or mini pantry with tea/coffee vending machine in every alternate coach.
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Benefits:
Pantry car...
more... can be eliminated, and replaced by an additional passenger coach leading to accomodation of more paxs and additional revenue to IR.
More Safety, as cooking on the running train is eliminated
More hygenic, Better quality control and standardized cooking at base kitchen than the cooking on running panrty car.
Lesser number of pantry car staff required to travel on train
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Dis advantages
Sufficient number of Base kitchens have to be constructed, else food cooked 4-5 hrs earlier have to be served instead of ideal situation of within 2-3 hrs.
Problems shall be there if trains are running late.