Leo Express launches new on-board menu after three months
The company reports 5% growth in refreshment sales without price increase
Praha, September 25, 2023 - Despite the double-digit inflation affecting prices, Leo Express has decided not to increase the price of on-board refreshments and to maintain the price of the Prague-Ostrava ticket at 4.1 EUR. This also applies to connections in the new timetable, which is already available. Despite this, the company recorded a 5.3% year-on-year increase in revenue from on-board refreshments. In addition to the increased interest in travelling, the regular updating of the on-board menu is also contributing to higher sales. Leo Express has just launched a new menu for this autumn, featuring seasonal ingredients such as pumpkin, root vegetables and wine. Exotic food lovers will also find something to their taste. Crickets and worms have long been at the top of the menu.
In this autumn menu, customers will find typical autumn ingredients such as pumpkin, venison and root vegetables. We are the first railway company to cooperate with the company 2gether, which owns several well-known restaurants such as SIA, Cukrář Skála and Bruxx. In this way, we can offer our passengers food of a similar quality to what they are used to in restaurants. With sustainability in mind, of course.
To make the menu as varied as possible, passengers will find not only Czech classics but also fried rice, a popular part of Eastern and South Asian cuisine. Also new are Bánh mì baguettes, sandwiches based on Vietnamese cuisine, and a pastrami sandwich. Bohemian potato soup or Frankfurt soup will keep you warm. Meatless lovers will enjoy mushroom stroganoff, vegetable ratatouille and French toast with pears. Or a breakfast burrito with eggs, beans and hash browns.
Leo Express changes its on board menu regularly, introducing new items every three months in response to trends in the food industry. That's why it has long offered crunchy crickets with chilli and lime flavours and, more recently, a sweet version of worms with salted caramel. In total, more than 2,000 packs of these crunchy snacks have been sold.
"In the new on board menu, we have also included photos so that customers can better visualise the product and be inspired when choosing it," explains Petr Vrabec.
Despite rising inflation, Leo Express did not increase prices, yet sales still grew
Leo Express regularly changes the menu on board, but the prices of refreshments remain the same. Despite strong inflationary pressures, Leo Express has not increased the prices of refreshments or fares, which still start at 4.1 EUR between Prague and Ostrava. Despite this, Leo Express has seen an increase of more than five per cent in sales of onboard refreshments, which can also be paid for with leo credits. There is also a strong demand for merchandise such as lanyards and canvas bags, which Leo Express has now discounted.
The price of breakfast at Leo Express is between 2.9 and 5.3 EUR and the price of a main meal is between 5.3 and 7.8 EUR.
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Leo Express is a private transport operator that has been providing rail and bus passenger services in Central Europe since 2012. In the Czech Republic, it primarily operates on the commercial route Prague – Olomouc – Ostrava, with selected train services continuing to Prešov in Slovakia or Kraków in Poland. The network is complemented by bus connections to Ukraine, which link with train services. Since December 2019, Leo Express has also operated regional trains in the Pardubice region in the Czech Republic, and in December 2023, the company took over regional rail services on the busiest Slovak line, Bratislava – Komárno. The company already has experience in the German market, where it operated train services between Berlin and Stuttgart from 2017 to 2020. For 2026, new connections are planned from Prague via Olomouc to Bratislava, from Kraków to Warsaw, as well as from Przemyśl via Kraków and Prague to Frankfurt and Frankfurt Airport. Together with its main shareholder, the Spanish state railways Renfe, it plans strong growth in Europe in the coming years, both in commercial routes and in public service obligations.
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