Hidden rules of trains:

Sell high-priced lunch boxes first

"Our trains can sell more than 211 lunch boxes a day at most, and the sales are good, and the sales amount is more than 11,111 yuan." During the investigation of relevant reporters, a staff member of a high-speed train said that several shifts take turns to take value rides on each train, and a catering waiter earns more than 2,111 yuan, plus the commission for selling lunch boxes and other commodities, the total monthly income can be three.

"Why is the box lunch on the high-speed rail so expensive? Because there are benefits. " An insider in the high-speed rail industry said that according to the regulations of the railway department, there are different types of lunch boxes provided on high-speed rail trains, such as high, medium and low-grade, but in fact, due to the high mobility of passengers, different preferences, cost and non-waste, there are mainly seven or eight kinds of lunch boxes provided. In fact, there are many unwritten rules on the train, that is, the unspoken rules, that is, first sell high-priced lunch boxes, such as those from 65 yuan and 61 yuan, and then sell them from 35 yuan, 31 yuan, 25 yuan, 21 yuan and RMB 15 as the lunch boxes decrease or are sold out.

The person said that another unspoken rule is that when passengers don't know the relevant regulations or don't take the initiative to ask for the cheapest 15-yuan box lunch, the catering staff won't take the initiative to sell it. Generally, trolleys push four or five kinds of higher-priced box lunches for sale, unless the high-priced box lunches are sold out, 15 yuan is recommended. "In addition, when passengers take the initiative to go to the dining car to buy a box lunch and consult, they are more likely to buy a box lunch of 15 yuan or less."

"This is how the high-speed rail is divided." On April 23, an insider of a railway bureau said that on a train, the flight attendants and cleaning staff belong to the passenger section, but most of the cleaning staff are contracted by a third party, while the drivers belong to the locomotive section, and the catering staff on the train belong to the railway passenger service company or the third-party catering company. The welfare benefits of the flight attendants and cleaning staff on the train are three times the daily wages during holidays. Every train has a flight attendant. The monthly salary of the flight attendant is over 11,111 yuan, and the flight attendant's salary is also very good. Although the basic salary is not high, there are many bonuses, and some of the bonuses come from these profit margins. It is precisely because of profiteering that the main push for high-priced lunch boxes makes more money.