"Food to your berth" in Indian Railways

NewDelhi, June 12: A good news from Indian Railways. From June 15 your favorite fast food order will be delivered to your seat in Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express. Passengers can now book their meals online because the meals became ‘optional’ on these long-distance superfast luxury trains.

The Indian Railways has collaborated with several food chains to deliver the meals. Passengers can either order the food online, via phone or through SMS. IRCTC had made a contract with vendors such as McDonald’s, KFC, Switz Foods, Only Alibaba, Dominos, Haldiram, Bikanerwala, Nirualas, Sagar Ratna and Pizza Hut.

Passengers can pre-book meals by visiting ‘www.ecatering.irctc.co.in’ and fill up the detailed information such as PNR no, destination, delivery station etc and can make payment via online. Passengers can also call ‘1323’ and place their order and pay using cash at the time of delivery. Passengers can also order via SMS. All they have to do is text ‘MEAL’, followed by their PNR number, to 139 and their order will be delivered and cash will be collected.

Finally, passengers are happy because they can eat Yummy food at their convenience in trains.