If the idea of eating at a hotel restaurant has you thinking you’ve made an odd choice, you might want to reconsider, especially in Charlotte’s center city. This wasn’t always the case. Hotel restaurants have often carried with them a stigma, suggesting they offer convenience in exchange for low quality.

For travelers, hotel dining is a phone call or an elevator ride away, a corporate charge that won’t be questioned by accounting, an easy walk from the parking lot on the way up to the room for the evening. In 2015, an AOL writer proclaimed why one should never eat at a hotel restaurant, even when traveling. Locals won’t eat there, so why should you?