American Cuts First Class Sliders & Fries… Because They’re Too Popular?!

Why even offer burgers and fries, how creative can u get. Veggies with good hummus or at least choices of hummus are better and lighter saving on fuel.

The most premium airline in the US can keep their Shake Shack burgers, thank you very much. SS is almost as tasteless & bland as In-N-Out. DL is nothing but aggressive with their "premium " marketing in everything they provide. So I wouldn't expect AA to have a good burger either. It's a same, really, as one would expect a US carrier to beat a ME carrier in the burger department.

Im far from an AA apologist, but here’s my take having spent the majority of my adult life in commercial food service, including working at Amtrak for 19 years, with 12 in food service both at the front line and management levels. Airline catering is incredibly complicated and there’s probably a jam in the supply chain in the burger patty, bun, or fries department. You might say “any idiot can make a slider” and you’d be right. However, American and GateGourmet are “obligated” (and I use the term lightly) to have the burgers look and taste the same, at least when they leave the catering facility, regardless of where they’re catered. As an example, the short ribs everyone is so fond of on the US3 all come from one company - Cuisine Solutions. Until 2021 they had one factory in the US, in Sterling VA right near IAD. They can only cook, package, and ship *so many* short ribs in a day. We used a lot of Cuisine Solutions products at Amtrak, but in order for a train leaving Los Angeles going to Seattle, Chicago, or New Orleans to have short ribs (yes, the same ones you get on AA, DL, and UA) they had to be trucked from VA to CA. It’s financially irresponsible for any company to have thousands and thousands of meals sitting on the shelf in the freezer, so Aramark depended on a weekly delivery from CS. One hiccup in that chain and boom, no short ribs for anyone. I believe based on what I’ve read that the fries are actually the most difficult part of the meal to pull off, so my guess is the fry supplier can’t meet demand. It’s the same reason most of the bags of economy snack mix on multiple airlines comes from King Nut in Ohio. They’re best positioned to keep up with demand, they have the right machinery to package snacks into 0.003 ounce, 5 calorie bags, their inbound supply chain is built to meet their needs and they are probably set up to deliver something else if they can’t meet spec. Remember they don’t just need the contents of the bags but the bags themselves. TO;DR, it’s more complicated than it seems at face value. AA could potentially just serve the sliders out of certain stations but it seems they’re playing wait and see with their supply chain.

Too popular = $$$ that's why period

based in munich i live in a culinary heaven, and make best use out of that — and still… i exactly remember how i found frozen white castle sliders at an orlando hotel reception years ago, microwaved them, uff, and hey, what a kick. honestly i had a decent dry duty free riesling from FRA with it. point is, it’s what it is, but i found that much tastier than eg LH F class breakfast burger option. otherwise i do of course prefer self fabricated burgers.