Hotel breakfast is fire fr

What’s not to love about print-on-demand pancakes?

These things are absolutely not a replacement for waffle machines. They barely cook the pancake all the way and the batter often has a rubbery texture worse than any store-bought mix. Also you can easily make better pancakes at home.
Meanwhile, hotel waffles are crunchy on the outside with a soft interior and malty flavor thanks to the big heavy specialized waffle makers. They taste much more fresh, and most importantly you can't make them at home without the expensive specialized equipment. Home waffle makers just don't have the same mass of heated metal to get the same results.
I actively avoid Holiday Inn Express for business travel because of these things. I prefer the breakfast at many Quality Inns which are often 1/3 the price. Hampton Inn does it right with waffles and two flavors of batter nationwide.
- Home waffle makers just don’t have the same mass of heated metal to get the same results.
  There is a prosumer model waffle maker that's not bad.
  https://www.cuisinart.com/double-flip-belgian-waffle-maker/WAF-F40NAS.html
  It's $150, which is not cheap. It's huge, it's heavy, and good luck on finding a place to store it but you can get really close to the better hotel gear with it
Holy shit there's a pancake printer?
- Blud they can print guns these days

There is a lot to be said about even deeply mediocre food straight out of bed.

But if hotel omelettes are better than yours... Y'all need more Kenji in your life.

Clearly you've never been to hotel that has an egg chef at the buffet. Eggs cooked to perfection on demand.
That said, everyone needs more Kenji in their life!
- Again, if you can't beat someone who has been dealing with a couple dozen people AND their kids all rushing the counter to watch someone operate a 3 pan pipeline... it doesn't take much effort. Nonstick pans are the cheat mode of eggs but there is a lot to be said about enough butter that even a Frenchman will give you the side eye.
  I've definitely dined at some in-hotel restaraunts that were damned amazing. But a general rule of thumb is that if you can see the chef cooking (and it isn't a hole in the wall where the floors are sticky), you are getting chain restaurant food. Part of that is because they fundamentally can't let pans get hot enough (people get pissy when they see an open pan) so everything is non-stick and cooking spray and just a bit oily tasting. Part of it is also that they can't use the "secret ingredients" like MSG or fish sauce or whatever because, at best, it leads to questions from the lookiloos and, at worst, it leads to aggressive racism. Same with the eggs. You either have everything pre-beaten (which often means it was powdered to begin with...) or you just get a quick mix because, again, you can't have empty pans when there is a queue. Same with dicing onions and peppers versus pre-dicing (again, often frozen) and tossing with a preservative so they won't oxidize. And while I've noticed a shift over the past decade or so (I weirdly credit Brooklyn 99), even something like a salt cellar is hit or miss because most people don't realize that salt is inherently anti-microbial so it is fine to finger it and that you can't season from a shaker.
  Don't get me wrong. I am right there with the crowd to get some avocado toast in an Admiral's Club. That shit is good. But you are also always fundamentally looking at something that isn't that hard to beat.
  And there is a lot to be said about making your own omelettes... or making omelettes for the person who let you do stuff to them last night.

Me at hotel breakfast: ugh everything sucks, half a kilo of bacon it is!

Hotel breakfast is mediocre at best unless you're in an Embassy, a Garden Inn, or a Doubletree- those places prepare you fresh food. I've had some good experiences at Residence Inn as well, won't complain about them either. It's just that after you stay in a hotel for 46 weeks in a year for work, it gets kind of old pretty quickly- no matter how nice the hotel may be.

I hated business travel until I had a suite for the first time. Just having a couch and a table with chairs made all the difference in the world. I would just come back to my suite and get high and surf the web - no different than being at home except I didn't have my cats with me. If they combined a suites hotel with a cat cafe, I would probably just sell my house and stay on the road full time.

Seriously though, I'm here for vacation. Why you expecting me up so early!? There needs to be a hotel where the free breakfast lasts until noon. Even McDonalds is 11!

As a not-morning person who loves breakfast food, I'm with you 110%
I think they want you out of the room early, so they can get it ready for the next guest. I don't like it either, but I can see the logic.
- yeah but if i stay there for a week why do I have to get up early every day?
  They can simply say "please leave your room at ?? AM on the day of your departure" and I'll do it.
- that probably went i, a not morning person, have anyways felt like hotels want to push me out of bed.
  as a lifelong second-third shifter i would pay 3 times as much for ANY HOTEL that can accommodate me wanting to sleep during the day. moving across the country and not wrecking my work sleep schedule is impossible exclusively because all hotels want me to check in 4 hours past my bedtime. so either I'm buying an extra day off noisy bad sleep, or I'm just not sleeping for a day.
  as much as they suck for other reasons and have enshittified beyond usability; this was what air b&b was great for. hotels were and now are again an industry that's very stuck in its ways and NEEDS disrupting. they need to to live "normally" for them to work.
Probably because they charge you extra for breakfast and know full well most people won't be up in time for it.
Even McDonalds is 11!
used to be all day
- So much has been lost...

No way in hell you're getting me up for breakfast at 7AM on holiday

So nobody cares that this dude sleeps at home without any pillow case? no duvet cover? i bet he's also raw dogging his mattress without any sheets. are you out of your mind? whats wrong with you?

Do I care how a random person sleeps in their own house?
No, no I don't.
Dear God it's Baloney Bob. Quick someone tell Zach Hazard, also check the closet there's a truck bumper in there.

This lasts until you travel for work a few times per month and then that shit starts to make you gag.

Most hotels I've been to have milk and oat meal too, basically what I'd get an average day. Nah I've been fine with hotel breakfast even travelling for work, pretty much the same shit I eat at home and then some occasional candy like food like waffles and pancakes.
Oh man. I was staying in a hotel for PAX-South. We loved the breakfast but by 3rd day it was like....ugh, wtf is this shit?!
Totally get this for sure.

This is a repost of mine! You need to pay me 10000000000000$

I only have three
- Only 9,999,999,999,997 to go!

I love that water with the faint orange tint. Worth the price of the room all by itself.

Seriously though, the waffle iron is pretty cool when it isn't out of order.

It's been years since I've stayed in a hotel, but the last time I did they 100% advertised a continental breakfast. Got my ass out of bed way too early to grab myself a bite... it was one of those clear plastic shelving things with a few boxes worth of individually wrapped Little Debbie's muffins dumped in it.

And a pot of coffee, which tasted a bit like fish... which I'm assuming means it was Folgers.

Idr the band of hotel, but it was one of the big chains you see all over the place, not some one-off sketchy backwoods business.

I really wanted a waffle from one of those one-at-a-time griddle things. Q_Q

FWIW I've never seen a Hampton Inn without at least one waffle maker.
- they definitely didn't stay at a Hilton property, sounds like they caught a night at a Red Roof Inn or similar. I've never stayed at a Hilton that didn't have breakfast service in the morning.
Maybe Avid? There are some of them that just have pre-heated Jimmy Dean biscuit sandwiches and some muffins and fruits. Although the last one I’ve been to was relatively new and they had fresh scrambled eggs and sausages.
It’s the Holiday Inn Express ones that usually have bacon, depending on the location.
I stayed at one once that offered a few granola bars and maybe some fruit. If you didn’t grab them quick enough it was gone and the staff wouldn’t replenish them.
- Bro is this USA stuff? I stayed in many, many hotels in Europe and Latin America and the absolute worst I had were pieces of toast with butter, cheese, coffee, orange juice, tea, and fruits. And that was a shady backwater hotel.

Obligatory Key & Peele - Continental Breakfast.

I use "I'll have what I'm having!" all the time
Ah, so Sam Reich, but before him!

9 am on a workday, 7 am on a day off

I always assumed this is because of jet lag making me hungry and sleepy at weird hours because I'm so rarely in a hotel unless I'm in a different time zone. Does this happen to people when they are in a nearby hotel, too?

Yes, even when I fly to +5 timezone, I'll be there for breakfast!
I've never travelled out of my timezone and yes it still happens.

I wont , take it easy if you wake me ho early for food on holidays, im going to get angry

Lmao, and it's not even something special, yet our body will just say "whelp time to breakfast".

Maybe in the US it's not something special
- Estonian, can confirm that no budget or midrange hotels here have been special either. Same for the singular hotel I've visited in Finland and the 3 hotels I've visited in the US.
  It's been broadly the same everywhere, minor differences in selection, but similar "headliners"
- In Malaysia, unless you went for fancy 5stars hotel, it's nothing special as well, but we still wake up early for the breakfast.

What is he sleeping on? Looks metal.