Originally Posted by
storewanderer
Hilton needs to step in here and get some consistency to these breakfasts. If they can have a buying program for bathroom toiletries by hotel brand from Sysco or whoever, they can also get a streamlined thing going for prepackaged food for each brand to serve in a grab and go bag. That should also cut costs to the hotels to buy the stuff under Hilton's contract vs. what appears to be happening where some hotel staff is going to a local grocery store or Wal Mart or Costco and picking up random items to construct these breakfast bags.
IIRC, that already exists & Sysco is one of the preferred vendors in that program as well (I doubt the Sysco contract for amenities has a meaningful positive impact on costs, though -- if anything I would expect costs are slightly up over the open market because it limits the property's ability to shop around -- but clearly bulk/wholesale purchases will generally be better pricing than generic retail sales.
I think some of the F&B is driven by the local climate/restrictions and occupancy -- I'm not a breakfast person so I haven't been watching that closely but everything from the grab-and-go bag (with a note that all of the fruit had been sanitized and wrapped under the auspices of the local county health department) to a platter of pre-packaged muffins, last Hampton (OMA airport, Friday night) I was at had a glass-doored refrigerator sitting behind the counter with a "Breakfast 7-10" sticker on it -- looked to have single-serving milk, yogurt, etc. in it and next to it (still behind the counter) appeared to be cereals, and other dry/packaged breakfast-y foods