nooooooooooooooo

Washington Post:

Is this goodbye to make-your-own waffles? Coronavirus may end the hotel breakfast as we know it.

Los Angeles Times:

At the budget end of the price spectrum, if you’re a regular guest at Hilton’s Hampton Inns, Cordell said, “you’re used to making your waffle” in the hotel’s grab-and-go breakfast area. Going forward, the hotel will instead “curate” the six to eight most popular items and put them in sealed bags.

In the places I’ve stayed, in the places I’ve gone, the waffle was often literally the only hot breakfast in town. The only fast-food place may be in the opposite direction (and $6 out of my pocket) and the oatmeal options are weird.* Half the reason I might splurge on a Hampton** is for the smorgasbord of hot food that can keep me going to a late dinner.

Coronavirus: Killing everything you love, one waffle at a time.

*I have never seen anyone eat oatmeal at a hotel breakfast.
**Hampton Inn is my luxury brand, but the Hilton “budget” option for those with expense accounts. I have Hotwired a couple places above my pay grade, though.