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Gone are the days of leisurely room service meals for fast-paced, budget-conscious business travelers. And hotels are moving beyond traditional in-room meal service and offering meals to go, the New York Times reported.
From New York's Grand Hyatt to the The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago to London's Grosvenor House, a J.W. Marriott Hotel, high-end hotels are offering pre-packaged meals. And the options cater to all tastes, from the $2 bagel at the Aloft Hotel in Lexington, Mass., to the $40 Maine lobster pita from the Trump International.
"Business travelers are packing more time into the day, using their travel time to work," Matthew Adams, vice president and managing director for the Grand Hyatt, told the Times.
Business travelers, Adams told the Times, were streaming out of the hotel and right into Starbucks.
"Travel is about productivity and using every minute wisely," Bjorn Hanson, associate professor at the Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management at New York University, told the Times. "The dining room is perceived to have slow service and high prices."
Self-service is also important to the business traveler, Brian McGuinness, senior vice president for specialty select brands for Starwood Hotels, told the paper.
But don't expect to-go food to be low-brow or slow.
At the W Atlanta-Midtown, guests can buy $15 lunchboxes from Spice restaurant, run by celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and the Hotel Monaco Denver offers breakfast croissant sandwiches for $8.50 that are ready in as little as 15 minutes, the paper reported.
"People are less comfortable paying $25 for breakfast, plus gratuity," Hanson told the paper. "Takeaway is in tune with economic times."
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5-09-2010 @8:02AM John C. Billingsley, Jr. said... 5 star and dimond hotels usually have shops and nooks where you can get snacks some even in the room but they still have elegent dining for those that perfer.
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5-09-2010 @8:59AM Angela said... I really hate to eat and run, but you'll understand, won't you? A big deal is going down in the board room and I simply must attend.
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5-09-2010 @2:47PM brad said... I know this is about business travelers, and the few times I've been one I still loved breakfast room service! What's the rush! It's great to wake up to coffee , and a good breakfast to get you going in the morning. Maybe I'm just old fashioned but I love filling out the form, placing your order the night before and waking up to smell of fresh coffee and breakfast and I suppose if you are in that much of a hurry you can still enjoy five minutes ...
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