Hotel guests ordering more takeout
HOTEL guests increasingly prefer to order their eats from takeout restaurants rather than from room service, according to data from Chicago-based online food-ordering service GrubHub Inc.
WHILE revenues from room service declined 9.5 per cent from 2007 to 2012, according to PFK Hospitality Research, GrubHub found that takeout orders to hotels increased 125 per cent in the past three years after analysing orders delivered to 8,000 hotels across the USA.
GrubHub has a network of 29,000 restaurants in 700 cities, the company said in a release, and found that on average, hotel diners spend about 11 per cent more per order than other diners. Hotel guests in mid-sized cities also tend to order in more often.
"Whether travellers are looking for more diverse, more affordable, or more accessible food options, it's clear that takeout is becoming the natural alternative to traditional room service," GrubHub President Jonathan Zabusky said in a statement.
Hotel diners were four times more likely than other diners to order water and twice as likely to order cheesecake.
The most-ordered food and drinks delivered to hotels were:
- Soda
- Pizza
- Salad
- Soup
- Wings
- Water
- Fries
- Fried rice
- Egg roll
- Naan
- Pad Thai
- Burger
The 10 leading hotel takeout order destinations were:
- Minneapolis
- Kansas City, Mo.
- Orlando, Fla.
- Virginia Beach, Va.
- Raleigh, N.C.
- Cleveland
- Portland, Ore.
- Jacksonville, Fla.
- San Jose, Calif.
- Miami
Source: Perth Now - 22nd August 2014
