Aloft Hotels launched their Emoji Room Service Menu at their Manhattan Downtown hotel in October and is now spreading that service to their London Excel and Liverpool Hotels.
The service they call ,’Text it, Get it’, allows guests to order Emoji menu item kits via text. The kits start at $10 and are put on the guests final bill.
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I understand the importance of graphics in communication, especially where numbers of languages are involved, but this seems to me to be just a trendy fad, at least in the Aloft version.
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I know it’s not very practical, but the idea is cute and people love emojis