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Have you ever wondered why hotels place a chocolate on your pillow?
It’s a nice, small gesture, and it had to start somewhere. In fact, it didn’t start all that long ago. Sometime in the early 1950s, actor Cary Grant was staying at the luxurious Mayfair Hotel in downtown St. Louis. He was a frequent guest and booked the penthouse suite, with a lady who would meet him there. During this time, Grant was married to this third wife, actress Betsy Drake. As the story goes, the lady arrived at the suite before Grant did, and found that he had laid a trail of chocolates. The trail began in the sitting room, ran into the bedroom, across the bed, and onto the pillow, sort of a seductive “Hansel and Gretel” breadcrumb trail.
The Mayfair’s manager heard about the romantic and thoughtful gesture of Grant’s chocolate trail. Most likely, since the hotel staff had to procure the chocolates and lay them out for Grant. The manager liked the idea so much that he included chocolates on the pillows upon arrival of other hotel guests as one of the hotel’s many standard amenities.