An Open Letter to the Dallas Hilton Anatole
I recently stayed at your hotel while in Dallas on business. Overall, it was a good experience. The staff was attentive, the rooms were very nice (though mine smelled like mold. But, that isn’t the point of this letter), and your elevators were incredibly fast (are they jet powered?).
My one problem with my stay came in the form of a 6oz container of stawberry Yoplait Yogurt. I am afraid that you may have inadvertantly hired a pirate to take care of the pricing of your food stuffs. That is the only explanation I can think of for a $2.75 yogurt. In the outside world, a Yoplait yogurt costs around 79 cents. I understand that you have to account for the freight and fees incurred importing it from the Safeway down the street, but 3 times the going rate seems a bit steep. I took an informal poll, and 9 out of 10 movie theater owners cringed at that price. I checked the ingredients to make sure it wasn’t a special house blend, but the main ingredient was the usual low fat milk and not saffron as I had suspected.
I was able to include the yogurt in my expense report, but now I am afraid that it will eat into my company’s 4th quarter profits and leave me without a Christmas bonus. As you know, the economy is in delicate balance at the moment and the last thing we need to do is hurt consumer confidence. So, in the future, please consider the impact your yogurt prices might have on our country’s financial health before getting so greedy.
Your partner in a better tomorrow,
Joe Penrod
