Breakfast Options for the Guesthouse

Most people like producing their own alternatives from a choice of starters at breakfast-time, so you need to aim to supply within your guesthouse a good amount of alternatives for example cereals, fruit (fresh or stewed), fruit juices, yoghurt, and muesli (home-made when you can handle it). If your assortment of starters is complete sufficient you might discover that guests frequently eat less with the most important course. Kids will ordinarily only go for cereal and fruit.

Even so, from practical experience most bed and breakfast owners say that their guests, unless they are on a diet program pretty much invariably do choose a full English breakfast. A conventional complete English breakfast will generally comprise of such things as grilled bacon, sausage, and fried or scrambled eggs. If your price range makes it possible for you need to aim to put on as many additional extras as you can, examples are mushrooms, tomatoes, fried bread, kidneys, black pudding and baked beans. It is actually worth remembering that should you have visitors staying a longer period of time they might turn out to be bored together with the breakfast that you have on supply so contemplate options such as omelettes, smoked haddock, kedgeree, kippers, mackerel, porridge and cream, fishcakes and Arbroath Smokies from Scotland. These selections needless to say include an additional cost so use them sparingly. It will likely be a real treat for guests for your Secunda B&B in the event you can give free range eggs, home-baked bread, and your personal jams and marmalade or honey. The impression created on guests by home-made bread and hot breakfast rolls (including good wholemeal in case you can master how to bake it) are quite out of proportion to the extra work involved. As with any other dwelling produce eggs, milk, cream, and fruit you are able to afford be generous for the sake of a good impression, as there is a limit to how much anyone can eat of them. When you yourself have no time to make preserves (jam and marmalade) or bread, a local person could be willing (the Women's Institute might be able to place you in touch with someone). Well done if your orange juice is freshly squeezed and when you can supply a choice of teas, (earl grey and Indian are 2 examples) as well as really top-quality coffee, (never instant as it creates a poor impression). The majority of people prefer hot milk with their coffee so take into account putting a jug in the dining room although it's going to need to be checked periodically to ensure it stays hot. Keeping a coffee maker and toaster in the breakfast room, and encouraging guests to help themselves, will certainly reduce your workload in the kitchen at a busy breakfast time

There are arguments for and against the one portion packs of butter or margarine. On the plus side there is much less waste and better hygiene, on the minus side there is a higher cost per item, it is actually fiddly for guests to open and presents a cafeteria image. It is actually not difficult to slice a half pound pack of butter in to small pats and place them on iced plates on the breakfast room tables. I can think of nothing in favour of one portion packs of marmalade when compared with a generous part of good quality preserve. Some hosts require all their visitors to take breakfast at a fixed time. Others are more flexible (it can be easy to cook each breakfast if visitors do not all come down once), asking guests

the previous night when breakfast is wanted (within a fixed time band) and what they want to consume is a good idea as this will cut down on waste and obviously reduce costs.

It is actually a good idea to do some breakfast preparation the night before, particularly when you've got to cater for early risers catching planes with business appointments; laying tables, setting out cereals and preserves, and generally preparing the kitchen to be able to make a quick start on breakfast the following morning.

It costs nothing to lay out your personal morning newspaper, or even ordering a choice for the guests to read. Alternatively you'll be able to place televisions in the dining room to allow guests to watch breakfast news programs. We have usually found this to be very popular.