What's more likely to happen - a good chunk of the people staying at the hotel eating breakfast before they head out for the day, or ones who are too tired to eat elsewhere and decide to have dinner there?

I think it's a universal sentiment that the breakfast at the Bistro is massively overpriced for the bad food you get. Especially compared to the buffets, which were reasonably priced - almost cheap - and generally pretty good. Some even had omelet stations.

I accept the fact that some people don't feel like going out at night, but again, you'll get massively overpriced bad food if you eat at a CY. Order in a pizza or Chinese food or something. I like to eat breakfast at hotel since I can go down before showering and everything, load up, then head back up to the room to shower and get ready. As for dinner, that does not apply. I may be tired, but I'm not tired enough to either stop off on my way back to the hotel or to venture out for an hour to get something. Or order delivery from somewhere.

I agree with the poster above, I've switched a lot of my "budget" stays to Springhill Suites. The breakfast is usually decent - waffles, eggs, some pork product, cereal, breads, etc. Not as good as the CY buffets, but better than the Bistro and included in the rate.

I know that Bill Marriott used to always complain that people treated the restaurants at his hotels like coffee shops. Breakfast and that was about it, unless you were attending an event in the hotel. Well, I would rather have a nice coffee shop with a good breakfast than the Bistro concept, which is in some no-man's land between an overpriced coffee shop and a bad, overpriced limited-menu restaurant.