Roosevelt Inn
RESERVATIONS
1-800-257-8923
phone hours
8 a.m.~10 p.m.
mountain time
Hotel Phone
1-605-666-4599
Phone Hours
8 a.m. ~ 10 p.m.
Hotel email
info@rosyinn.com
Continental Breakfast
We do not offer a continental breakfast. During the months of May through September we invite guests to enjoy unlimited coffee, tea and selected other drinks in the lobby. We also offer cake donuts.In Europe (the continent), a continental breakfast originally meant nothing more than a roll -- usually having a hard crust -- and a drink of either coffee or tea. Nothing more! (See This Definition by Ochef) Unfortunately, most Americans don't know what a real continental breakfast is. They think it ought to include extras like fruit, cereal, milk and juice. Indeed, some properties do include such fare and call the result a continental breakfast.
We do, however, offer juice, milk and other refrigerated items for sale at reasonable prices in our lobby.
Also, keep this in mind.
The South Dakota Department of Health requires full restaurant certification for any motel or hotel serving any hot food items prepared on site. Certification requires facilities with fire suppression and ventilation systems as well as "ServeSafe" training for at least one employee.
Here is the South Dakota Health Department language (as of October, 2008) which provides the only exceptions: "... a continental breakfast may include two hot food items that are commercially manufactured, fully precooked food items that are hot held for a maximum time frame of 4 hours then discarded. These commercially manufactured, fully precooked food items are limited to sausage and gravy, french toast, pancakes, waffles, eggs, bacon or breakfast rolls. This shall include reconstituted batter mixes of pancake or waffle flour or other food items approved by the regulatory aurthority."
So let's see ... that heavily advertised hot breakfast bar can legally include only two hot items which must be made in a factory and can only be reheated -- not cooked. ...ummmm, yummy.
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