DINE AT DOUBLETREE

Source: Doubletree Hotels Corporation

March 29, 1999
Travelers looking for a good meal on the road need not venture any further than the lobby of their nearest Doubletree hotel. Beginning the week of March 16, all Doubletree hotels throughout the country will be dishing up new and exciting menu items as part of its Chefs' Signature Series. The Series will provide travelers with a variety of sumptuous offerings from French Blintzed Toast for breakfast to a Smokin' Turkey Wrap and Roll Sandwich for lunch to Spiced Salmon with Grapefruit Mint Sauce for dinner.

Created by a culinary committee comprised of ten of Doubletree's chefs from around the country, the series includes numerous breakfast, lunch and dinner entrees. The chefs took into consideration guest feedback, seasonal or regional factors and general eating trends in the development of the newest flavors of Doubletree.

Three criteria provided the basis for choosing which items would be selected for the Series: flavor and presentation, the ability to offer the entree at all Doubletree hotels throughout the country, and whether the item is a lighter fare keeping health in mind.

"We recognize that our guests want food that fits today's diet demands and time constraints without having to sacrifice flavor," said Paul Ryan, vice president of food and beverage operations for Promus Hotel Corporation, the parent company of Doubletree. "From high fiber ginger pancakes to citric sauces, each of the new signature items combine lighter fares with extremely distinctive flavor."

"Best of all, guests can enjoy these new menu offerings from the Chefs' Signature Series at each of the more than 170 participating Doubletree hotels they visit throughout the country," Ryan added.

The new menu items will be presented to guests on a special china designed specifically for the Chefs' Signature Series. In an effort to keep the offerings fresh and responsive to feedback, the menu items will be rotated frequently.

The Chefs' Signature Series is one component of the chain's Flavors of Doubletree comprehensive food and beverage program. "Our goal is to have Doubletree included in everyone's top restaurant choices in every market in which we have hotels," said Ryan. "Doubletree has the industry's premier chefs leading the charge to help us achieve this goal."

Doubletree Hotels Corporation is a first class, full-service, national brand of Promus Hotel Corporation, one of the world's premier lodging companies, with system-wide annual revenues of approximately $5 billion. Promus Hotel Corporation is the franchisor and operator of the Doubletree Hotels, Guest Suites and Resorts, Embassy Suites, Homewood Suites, Club Hotels by Doubletree, Hampton Inn, Hampton Inn & Suites, Embassy Vacation Resorts and Hampton Vacation Resorts brands. The company owns, operates or franchises more than 1,200 hotels, with approximately 180,000 rooms throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Latin America.