Oh, hotels. Yeah, hotels in the US can be pretty ridiculous with their serving sizes, especially if it's a fancier hotel with a really nice sit-down restaurant. I remember getting chicken once at the Peabody Hotel and they gave me practically half of a chicken. Way too much food for me (I'm 5'10" myself), but their entrees were priced at something like $20 or something ridiculous like that at the time (this was well over 5 years ago). Just looked at some of their current prices at their lower-priced "grill" and omg, heartattack. XD
I don't know if they are largely catering to people who are eating less than 3 meals a day, or people who have access to refrigerators. Or if they are lazy and don't want to deal with leftover food and don't really care if there is tons of waste. But I think they are mainly covering their butt with the huge serving sizes so they can charge outrageous prices for not particularly fancy food. $30 for chicken parmesan is insane to me. They are making a tidy profit on that one. I'm sure if they gave a reasonable serving size for that amount of money they would get lots of complaints.
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Date: 2014-06-30 09:38 pm (UTC)I don't know if they are largely catering to people who are eating less than 3 meals a day, or people who have access to refrigerators. Or if they are lazy and don't want to deal with leftover food and don't really care if there is tons of waste. But I think they are mainly covering their butt with the huge serving sizes so they can charge outrageous prices for not particularly fancy food. $30 for chicken parmesan is insane to me. They are making a tidy profit on that one. I'm sure if they gave a reasonable serving size for that amount of money they would get lots of complaints.