I don’t have an issue with a hotel chain being pro-pie. What I do have an issue with is it being explicitly anti-cake. Four Points offers pie in its restaurants and “express pie” through its room service. They even have apple-cinnamon pie scent wafting through their lobbies. They claim that pie embodies their brand by offering “simple, uncomplicated comfort ” to their guests. Fair enough. But then there’s this:
“Pie lovers rejoice! Your own slice of heaven is just a room service button away, whether you choose the award winning Country Apple pie, made exclusively from over a pound of Michigan apples, the French Silk chocolate pie or a favorite seasonal or regional pie. And forget cake, because coming soon guests at Four Points by Sheraton hotels who are celebrating a birthday will get a slice of pie on us...”
Birthday pie??? That just ain’t right. Until we get a cake-exclusive hotel, I’m blacklisting Four Points.
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/fourpoints/about/news/news_release_detail.html?obj_id=0900c7b9805e2f6a
pie versus cake 