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TGV Inoui: when will the bar cars reopen? Alain Krakovitch answers us

2021-05-13T17:28:17.699Z


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Mr. Director,

“Due to the current health crisis, our on-board catering services can no longer be provided until further notice.

We invite you to make your arrangements before boarding ”.

On the SNCF website, the message is final.

Travelers on TGV Inoui, who formerly could count on the bar-wagon for meals or refreshments, must organize themselves differently.

No one - a priori - has any particular nostalgia for “SNCF sandwiches”, of which Renaud once sang the relative thickness.

But we must recognize that the offer, in recent years, has grown at the same time as it has gone up.

On social networks, many gourmet travelers had even welcomed the arrival of Michel et Augustin products.

Since then, Covid obliges, the catering on board has been suspended.

But since the deconfinement has started and the restaurateurs are getting ready to bring out the cutlery, our readers are wondering: when will they be able, again, to order a meal, even on the go, or just a coffee inside the train. ?

Until very recently, your company's staff wondered about keeping catering on board, which was not profitable and restrictive in terms of organization. The opening up to competition - new companies can offer trains on lines formerly reserved for the SNCF - nevertheless pushes you to maintain this service. Because by offering meals, drinks, snacks, your future competitors would indeed risk making an SNCF offer without a bar car look like a low-cost service. Moreover, it should be noted that your company, which inaugurated its first train on the Spanish market on Friday by launching, in front of the historical operator Renfe, the low-cost TGV Ouigo between Madrid and Barcelona, ​​has kept catering at edge. This is not the case for the Ouigo in France.

Before the pandemic, on lines equipped with wi-fi, TGV Inoui users could even place their order from their seat, then come and collect it once ready.

While the SNCF has just put on sale 5 million tickets for this summer at a maximum of 39 euros, and the French are rushing to summer reservations, will they have to plan their sandwiches before getting on the trains, or can they count? on the bar car?

Our readers are eager to read your response.

Alain Krakovitch's response: "The bar cars will be open again on June 9"

Alain Krakovitch, Managing Director of Voyages SNCF.

LP / Fred Dugit

Good news for train travelers, they will soon be able to take a break in the TGV Inoui bar cars again. "We have to wait a little longer, like all professionals in the catering trade in France", Alain Krakovitch replies, after recalling that the SNCF has, "throughout the Covid-19 crisis, scrupulously followed the directives governments and their pace ”. But the end of the tunnel is approaching. "The bar cars will be open again on June 9, in the same calendar as the opening of the bars-restaurants", he announces.

However, there is no question of slackening the efforts in the fight against the virus, insists the general manager of Voyages SNCF.

“We all know that on June 9, the health crisis will still be relevant.

This is the reason why we will remain extremely vigilant on the barrier gestures to be respected to take advantage of the bar car in the best conditions.

"

Alain Krakovitch takes advantage of our open letter to remind them: "Distancing recalled by stickers on the ground, possible consumption at the bar with a 50% gauge

(materialized by stickers positioned on the condemned places)

, wearing of the compulsory mask outside the moment of consumption, hydroalcoholic gel available to customers at the entrance of the bar car.

"

But because the transition to the bar car must also remain a pleasure, Alain Krakovitch has reserved some taste surprises for the recovery. “I would like to take this opportunity to tell you that we wanted to add some new features to the menu, which we are in the process of developing with chefs such as Pierre Sang or Philippe Conticini. "

Source: leparis

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