By Brittany Chang, Business Insider; September 24, 2019
Amtrak is doing away with its iconic dining car on overnight trains traveling on the East Coast, instead replacing them with “flexible dining services” of ready-to-serve food.
The dining cars have been a part of Amtrak since it started service in 1971. The news of the reduction of the number of dining cars in service — as well as the claim that millennials would rather sit in their rooms instead of next to people they don’t know to eat dinner — has caused backlash on the internet.