Originally Posted by
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The breakfasts are too similar from one Comfort (in the USA) to the next to not be "forced" upon its franchisees. The franchisees may or may not be able to go above the minimum standards, but there appear to be minimum standards.
And the breakfast would not have been "upgraded" some years ago at all Comfort properties (in the USA) to not have been "forced" upon its franchisees.
It definitely seems very regimented -- as seems to be the case with all the motel chains.
I don't know if you're allowed to offer "more." The most "innovation" I've seen in the past 2 years is one Choice hotel in Ohio (I think it was a Comfort Inn) serving locally-made quality danish over the usual low-quality mass-produced junk.
And there's a good argument to be made NOT to offer more than the Chain-standard. I mean, when I book a Comfort Inn, I kind of know what I'm getting: and that includes a bad breakfast. I assume frequent travelers know this, and guests who've chosen to stay at Comfort Inn have accepted this fate. If an individual hotel decided to offer a better breakfast -- in the hope that more guests would stay and they'd be willing to pay a little more for the room because of the better breakfast -- how would the hotel "get the word out"? I guess tripadvisor reviews would help a little, but most travelers would be clueless as to the availability of the better offerings.