Canadian Pacific 1970 Breakfast Menu

While it doesn’t say so, this menu was clearly used in the full dining car rather than the Skyline coffee shop, as it has higher prices and a slightly wider array of selections. The main addition to the menu is griddle cakes with sausages; it doesn’t appear that sausages were available separately or wtith any other meal. The menu also offered raisin bran muffins as one of the breads, while the Skyline coffee shop just had toast or rolls.

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Prices of the full meals were 15 to 30 cents greater than in the coffee shop. Some, but not all, of the a la carte items were 5 to 10 cents more. It’s possible that the extra money paid for larger portions, but the main difference was probably in the quality of service and presentation: cloth table cloths and napkins instead of paper; heavy china instead of lightweight or disposable dinnerware; and so forth.


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