What is a mini-bar?

1974, Hilton Hong Kong became the first hotel in the world to have a mini-bar throughout the hotel, and all the refrigerators in its 840 rooms were filled with spirits. Driven by this, the company's net income increased by 5% that year.

Soon, the mini-bar became a universal industry standard, loved by countless desperate midnight snack lovers and drinkers, but also suffered a lot of abuse. For example, the mini-bar requires the hotel to invest extra manpower to maintain it, and the stored food is likely to deteriorate.

Since then, Hilton has started to cancel some hotel mini-bars, leaving only refrigerators for guests to store their own food. Other hotel giants, such as Marriott, Hyatt and Starwood, have followed suit and gradually eliminated the traditional mini-bars in some hotels.

The pricing of extended information mini-bar goods depends on the value of the goods, and the mini-bar in the hotel room itself is different from the convenience store. Because the hotel room itself is a different environment, and the goods of convenience stores can't enter the hotel room for sale. This geographical difference determines that mini-bar products can not get the same pricing as convenience store products.

This premium can be seen as an exchange of convenience and money. If you imagine a resort hotel in the suburbs, and there is no convenience store within a few kilometers of Fiona Fang, in this case, the price of mini-bar is definitely two to three times higher than the regular one.