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Cruise News for the Corporate Travel Professional |
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The Decline of the Main Dining Room |
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There's been a monumental shift in the
mega-ship main dining room experience, once a structured nightly event with
waiters who became family, exotic menu options like rabbit and a sea of
sartorial sophistication.
That quintessential cruise event has been replaced by more hurried pacing, cheaper seafood and steaks, and flex-dining programs that link passengers with different waiters every night. The changes have been a long time coming, but a renewed emphasis on for-fee, alternative restaurants without equal love going to the MDR will continue to hasten the transformation. Not all are opposed. Fans of the new normal love the ever-increasing gastronomic options and intimacy of smaller venues -- even for a fee. Traditionalists see one of their most revered cruise institutions vanishing, like the large, succulent lobsters that once defined formal night. Some lines, including Royal Caribbean, have taken note. But while Royal insists it's rededicating
itself to the MDR with new menus and tableware, it continues to add slews of
up-charge restaurants to ships during refurbishments. |
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