It’s a scenario that many business travelers are all-too-familiar with—bypassing meals, or grabbing food on the go to less-than-satisfying results. But now Four Seasons has come to the rescue with a new 15-Minute Room Service, available company-wide by the end of the year.
Each Four Seasons has created its own gourmet menu based on local tastes and ingredients. Menu choices are creative and flavorful, and designed for top-speed delivery to one’s room in just 15 minutes. Some hotels suggest full meal options, and others offer à la carte choices to mix and match. Many choices are available “to go,” are airline security-friendly, and can even be delivered to the front drive as guests jump in a car on the way to catch a flight.
Samplings from some Four Seasons 15-Minute Room Service Menus
Here’s a peek at four sample menus from around the globe:
At Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North, there’s no need to give up the gourmet, even if tee-time is imminent: one meal option includes local cheese, olives and sliced chorizo accompanied by an Arizona wine, while another portable lunch is a tequila-lime chicken wrap with slaw, kettle chips, iced tea and a chocolate chip cookie.
Jetsetters staying at Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong choose from international menu items such as wonton noodle soup with Chinese greens, cold mezzah, and burrata cheese and heirloom tomatoes on a baguette. Among a broad selection of breakfast dishes, salads, soups, sandwiches and pastas, Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at Nile Plaza offers its signature salad of crisp lettuce, asparagus, cucumber and tomato with lemon dressing; and a variety of mezzah, including fatoush salad, hummus topped with olive oil, and stuffed vine leaves.
On the tranquil atolls of Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Landaa Giravaaru, it’s hard to imagine anyone being in a hurry to do anything – except perhaps toasting a surprise engagement with a selection of sparkling wines and gourmet nibbles ranging from handmade chocolate truffles to chilled shrimp with Marie Rose sauce, and fatayer sabanekh (Arabian spinach pastries).
A traditional ploughman’s lunch and English-style nachos with Winchester cheese and chive crème fraiche are among the selections at Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire, England, and the country estate property will happily deliver pain au chocolat, tomato soup with warm garlic bread or other tasty choices to the stables or creekside as well.
Note: The new service will be available at all 86 Four Seasons properties worldwide; in some destinations, the guaranteed delivery time will be 20 minutes to allow for distance between kitchen and guest rooms.