How Has Coronavirus Changed Hotel Breakfast?

Often we frequent travelers are not lodging in areas with top tier hotels, but we must be in town. Its very disappointing to see many your properties such as Choice, still using Covid as an excuse to not serve a decent, healthy, or any breakfast for guests, as was the norm. This is Clearly Profit Motivated, as the risk of Covid transmission in restaurants and buffets is unmeasurably small, and not the lodging industry's biggest exposure by any means. Entering a room, uncovering the bed and seeing yellowed wrinkled pillow cases, that don't necessarily smell pristine clean is a threat. Using bead spreads that are most likely Not laundered after each guest and often cover one's face at night, is a threat. Used sheets and pillow cases could pack every germ or virus exhaled by the previous guest. Its not a far stretch for us frequent travelers to equate chiseling guests out of breakfast to save a 'dime' to doing the same with room cleanliness, there is No Doubt. It's sad to see Corona virus be used to the guest's detriment.

I've never cared for the free breakfast at mid-range hotels encountered on your average Hyatt house or the, where they don't have a kitchen and everything that is available is pre-cooked. Rubbery frozen Sysco omelets or crumbly dry eggs. And for some strange reason I won't feel deprived if I can't make my own waffles from premixed batter that's loaded with high-fructose corn syrup. Likewise the pastries and other food-like products that are just a junk food sugar fest. To boot all served on plastic. From what I've seeen, the answer is hotels will simply entomb their breakfasts in even more individual sized styrofoam and plastic to add to the mountain of waste we already generate. Much better in Europe where you can get fresh food and it is served on China, even in a HI Express.

I stayed at an aloft a month ago. The usually have a buffet, but had made to order breakfast, eggs, bacon, sausage. Was really good!

im shocked at how many people in the comments have stayed in hotels recently and are travelling during a PANDEMIC. #STAYHOME

We just stayed at the Sheraton Hotel and Resort on East Panama City Beach, FL. They only had a little cafe/bar where you could get a Starbucks and some packaged items. Quite disappointing to me, because having my time sitting at breakfast is a favorite thing for me to do....so we just went to an outside breakfast place. I was also disappointed in the dining room/bar option. Dining rooms could have been at 50% capacity with outdoor seating available, but instead they only had their "dining room" near the pool...all outside with the accompanying fluorescent lighting...we again opted to eat else where. Very nice and comfortable hotel....but lacking the amenities we look forward to.