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When you go on vacation and staying at a hotel, one of the best parts of the experience - other than the soft bathrobe with free toiletries - is the breakfast buffet that awaits you Near the lobby every morning.

Of course, thebreakfast buffet At each hotel may not be consistent with the most impressive propagation of bakery products and salt offers. (We all went to this airport hotel who had only the basics: scrambled eggs, sausage links, white and brown bread slices for mesh, steel-cut oat boiler, and at the table, A small bowl of jam and honey packets.) But at least it was a complementary food (or even not), created as a practical and unlimited propagation.

Unfortunately, the pandemic may have finished this kind of morning feast. According toEater,Large hotel chains such as four seasons, Hilton, MGM Resorts, Marriott and Intercontinental arrested all their catering services in mid-March. As the restrictions are global, the hotel industry has been actively restructured its services to better welcome guests in a safe, healthy and socially remote way. One of the first things to get the ax was the quintessenceSelf-service buffet. (In touch:The new shocking video shows how much germs spread in a restaurant.)

While the latest research argues that the novelCoronavirus is not transmissible through foodThis is not the focal point of concern with a buffet. It is rather shared utensils, plates and glasses that could put you at risk of exposure. For example, clamps and pockets sitting in the dishes under the warming tray with slices of ham, cookies and sauce can be contaminated.

But wait, are not you a low risk for coronavirus transmission?

The CDC It might have been said that the risk of contracting Covid-19 through objects is low due to the low survival of viruses on surfaces, but that does not exclude it entirely. In fact, a few months ago, a team of scientists in Japan put aUltraviolet light over a buffet Demonstrate how ease of infection can spread.

In theviral videoOne of the 10 participants was invited to rub his hands with a liquid only visible under blacklight. In the experiment, he represented someone with coronavirus who had just coughing in his hands. It goes through the buffet line first, followed by the other nine participants. After only 30 minutes, the black light turned on and revealed that each person had the contaminated substance simulated on their hands and, for three individuals,their faces.

Think about it, if someone who has coronavirus (and do not know it) sneezes in his hands, then touches the pitcher of orange juice just before doing it, you have just been exposed to the virus. Unless you have your hands out immediately after touch - but it's really going to be at the point of your mind when you're going to sit down? We would say that you will be too tempted to take this blueberry muffin before having time to think aboutwash one's hands.

Do the hospitality industry really believe that the hotel's breakfast buffets are gone?

Unfortunately, the days of common waffles are to that day.

"The breakfast buffet will be a thing of the past," Claudio Scarpa, Director of the Hotel Association for Venice, Italy, saidEater, which now serves guests breakfast bags.

However, this does not mean that breakfast foods will no longer be available at hotels. Anthony Melchioriri, a hospitality consultant and a crowd ofImpossible hotel on the told travel channelThe Washington PostThis hotel has many options to make the morning meal safer guests to enjoy, such as the limitation of capacity with a booking policy.

The main vice-president of Hyatt's global operations told the newspaper in an email that restaurants have already adopted a new breakfast service, offering control options and à la carte menus instead of A self-service buffet.

In short, the breakfast buffet can be gone for good, but a morning meal will continue to be served in hotels and other accommodation facilities, just slightly different.