750, Packed lunch? I guess you are unfamiliar with the lifestyle of EJ crews making such a suggestion. There aren't enough hours in the day to shop for and make packed lunches.
Besides, it is provided contractually and aircrew notionally pay several hundred pounds per year for the quite inadequate crew food, they are severely short-changed for it imo. Why should they provide their own?
TA, the EJ "culture", if I may so misuse the word, is simple. It is PROFIT, PROFIT, PROFIT. They reckon to roughly break even on ticket revenue and the huge profits they make come almost entirely from ancilliary sales in which the trolleys play a large part. If crew eat the pax sarnies they aren't available for sale and the company, and indirectly the crews, lose money. Some grey-faced little gnome in an accounts office will do the usual multiplication and come out with a figure of £Millions of potential profit disappearing down crews' throats. Plus cc are paid a bonus based on the in-flight sales they make. If one or two scoff the stock the rest can't sell them and are disadvantaged.
If there were unlimited quantities of this stuff and it was handed out free there would be less of a problem, but it isn't. Quantities are very limited and often sell out. You can't have crew routinely helping themselves, can you? A line has to be drawn somewhere - you say"take something off the trolley". Where do we draw the line? A sandwich? Paco Rabanne? Chanel? Clearly the only sensible policy is None. Not that it stops the Paco Rabanne etc walking. No doubt the scale of that is reflected in the hard line the company takes to safeguard it's interests among the bacon butties. It is at least consistant.
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