Originally Posted by
Enigma368
I have stayed in a lot of US based Hampton Inns, Holiday Inn Expresses and Best Western pluses recently and the free hot breakfast they offer is mostly the same. Usually you get poor quality sausage patties, scrambled or boiled eggs, sometimes bacon, waffles or pancakes, cakes, cereal, fruit, juice, tea and coffee. It is never something I feel I would pay for...
It is worth mentioning that the scrambled eggs are invariably 'artificial' - made at a remote location (factory) many moons ago from a commercial, packaged 'egg mix'. Goodness knows what the contents of that mix really is.
If you ask for boiled eggs, you invariably get pre-shelled, cold eggs that are brought out from a fridge. They are real eggs indeed, but how long ago were they boiled / shelled? And who likes eating
cold boiled eggs?
Also worth mentioning that it is not only the "mid-range" hotels that serve such sh%# - I once stayed at the Intercontinental in San Francisco (south of Market), where the breakfast buffet had a choice of only factory made omelettes or industrially produced and refrigerated, pre-shelled eggs. And they had the gumption to charge almost $30 for this.