Your pastries might be delectable and varied but only the cinnamon rolls are fresh from O’Farrell’s Bakery down the road who also happens to have a very high rating on TripAdvisor. You might have a nice jam selection but you only have one organic strawberry preserve made by the farmer up the lane. The more hungry morning mouths you have to feed the more the potential for nasty reviews and with 42.4% of travellers stating breakfast to be what they most look forward to when staying in a hotel it’s not a ball you want to fumble. Ideally it will be the person who sets the buffet up and sure, on quieter mornings you yourself can bounce between seating guests and making sure everything is topped up but on a full-house morning – don’t kid yourself! Before you double down on luxury with an oatmeal bar or an omelette station make sure you budget to have one member of staff whose singular purpose is to hover around the buffet making sure no section is let to take on a look of neglect.
Nothing says you don’t care about your customers like a spoon in an empty bowl lined with rice crispy dust or a wet, sticky dish where fruit salad once was.
#Breakfast buffet series#
Seriously though, a few labels and a bit of location planning is the difference between a series of uncomfortable conversations about gluten traces and a streamlined user-friendly breakfast experience that allows bacon and a spelt-bread to coexist in peace. I’ll go one further – these days more than ever before people are dogmatic about their diets – from dedicated carnivores to pescatarians to celiacs to tree-fall fruitarians – and the ball is your court to get with the program or get out of the game. You may have been reared on a diet of meat and potatoes like me or you may have gotten this far subsisting completely on berries and leaves – in either case the point remains: not everyone eats the same. Even if something in your assembly isn’t up to scratch you can make it look good and remember – looks can be deceiving which means you can also deceive with looks… Get in flowers as fresh as your fruit, bread and pastries every day.
Invest in a nice set of bowls and dishes – a different set per section – and arrange them in patterns pleasing to the eye. There is a certain amount of reaction you can put down to personal tastes – good or bad, there’s no accounting for them – but there is one area in particular where you can make gains and that’s good old fashioned pomp and presentation. People tend to remember them as magnificent or disgusting with very little wiggle room in between. DO Keep it Prettyīreakfast buffets don’t exactly exist on a spectrum. You can pick and choose but if I were you I wouldn’t treat this as a buffet – every hospitality food group is represented here to make this a tasty, nutritious meal for anyone with an appetite for satisfied customers. Here are five things I think you should do followed by another five I know you shouldn’t. And they don’t even need to cost that much money on your part – they just need to be done right. Hotel breakfasts can function as the cornerstone of a productive day on the move or the lofty first steps into a day of leisure all at the same time.
Think about it – bathroom, bed, restaurant, bar – each of these things may exist separately on their own terms, whether they’re in your home or out in the world – but there’s nowhere save hotels where you can realistically expect to have exactly what you want for breakfast and then a plate of something else for sampling. When you take away all the trimmings – put showers where the two person jacuzzis are and regular beds where there would have been four-posters – the breakfast – and particularly the breakfast buffet – might be the only thing that makes a hotel-stay truly exclusive to a regular day in the life.
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