No more butter chicken (and Neil Perry) please!

[Auzzieflyer]

Good news!

https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-and-neil-perry-serve-up-a-celebration-of-25-years/

25 years of butter chicken!

 

[1022]

I’m a foodie. 10-15 years ago I would have rated QF catering in all classes as being globally competitive. Not the best, but definitely competitive. I applaud their willingness to be creative in recognition that we are a multicultural country and our food culture has (thankfully) come a long way from meat and two veg. I think this is a genuine contribution someone like Neil Perry has brought not only to QF’s menus but to Australia more generally.

I recall my first time on EK F in 2013 and being incredibly underwhelmed by how staid and conservative the menu options were compared to mod-oz influenced dishes on QF. EK J menus have never impressed me either.

Recall when QF dom Y first went to boxed dinners, it took some getting used to but they actually had some really tasty and substantial salads - some with meat, some veggo - and ok hot dishes. Two decent choices in Y on a one hour flight with (back then) better-than-paint-stripper mini bottles of wine probably was as good as any domestic Y catering anywhere. Now that it’s soggy arancini or a sausage roll I’ll pass thanks.

I was impressed earlier this year with a vaguely Vietnamese tasting barramundi dish in Int’l J, but the plating was sloppy and the serving sizes stingy.

 

[AIRwin]

New dining enhancements:

https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-invests-in-new-menus-larger-meals-and-premium-produce/

 

[dajop]

New dining enhancements:

https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-invests-in-new-menus-larger-meals-and-premium-produce/

So in the context of this thread (or rather the first post of this thread), the MEL J lounge will now get meat pies instead of?/in addition to? whatever slop is currently available (no butter chicken during my visit a couple of weeks ago, slop of the day was a tomato and salmon pasta sauce without the pasta).

 

[ausfox]

I am trembling with excitement. NOT. Smoke and mirrors.

 

[dajop]

I am trembling with excitement. NOT. Smoke and mirrors.

Qantas, smoke and mirrors? Surely not?

If you break down this comment: "the additional multi-million dollar investment introduces new dishes and larger portions across all cabins".

So is that say $3m (that's multi-million) across the course of a year, that works out be $8000/day. If you assume that 50% of this upgrade spend is going to premium cabins on international widebody services, which amount to about 40-45/day, with say 40 pax per cabin (A380's more, A330's less), then you get to about $2 extra per premium passenger per flight. If you then extrapolate and look at the new dishes in economy, internationally and say that takes 25% of the "investment", that's about 20c per passenger.

 

[OZDUCK]

Qantas, smoke and mirrors? Surely not?

If you break down this comment: "the additional multi-million dollar investment introduces new dishes and larger portions across all cabins".

So is that say $3m (that's multi-million) across the course of a year, that works out be $8000/day. If you assume that 50% of this upgrade spend is going to premium cabins on international widebody services, which amount to about 40-45/day, with say 40 pax per cabin (A380's more, A330's less), then you get to about $2 extra per premium passenger per flight. If you then extrapolate and look at the new dishes in economy, internationally and say that takes 25% of the "investment", that's about 20c per passenger.

Well it should mean that the 'salad' will double in size as the current one would only cost about 10 C

 

[Ade]

One hilarious moment was flying back from Perth and having one hot dish in the lounge - butter chicken. Board the flight and get offered butter chicken again in J back to Syd.

Perhaps, the flight catering didn't make it and they had to pack the butter chicken from the lounge

 

[33kft]

$2 extra per premium passenger per flight

 

[dajop]

Actually I wonder if am sure this "multi million dollar investment" is just PR spin for the extra money they are spending because of inflation when re-negotiating contracts. We all know food prices haven't exactly stayed the same over the last year or so...

 

[Ade]

But butter chicken is one of the meals I look forward to!

Ultimately, butter chicken is awesome.

25 years of butter chicken!

As a vego, I'd like to ask - how hard it is to throw in tofu or paneer instead of chicken and cater something to the vego masses ...

 

[Groundhog]

Friday night 8pm, Syd J Lounge.

I wonder what‘s for dinner?

 

[Quickstatus]

I wonder what‘s for dinner?

Did you have to go snorkelling to look for chicken?

 

[drron]

Did you have to go snorkelling to look for chicken?

But even so I bet he didn’t find it.

 

[Auzzieflyer]

As a vego, I'd like to ask - how hard it is to throw in tofu or paneer instead of chicken and cater something to the vego masses ...

Butter tofu sounds appealing!!

 

[Scarlett]

the vego masses ...

An oxymoron perhaps?

 

[Ade]

An oxymoron perhaps?

Perhaps ...

 

[FlyingKangaroo]

As a vego, I'd like to ask - how hard it is to throw in tofu or paneer instead of chicken and cater something to the vego masses ...

Cheaper, too. Might even be enough to decrease the current ratio of 90/10 in favour of sauce.