Want to order a burger and beer from room service before you check into your hotel so dinner is waiting for you?

Guests at Hilton, Embassy Suites and Doubletree hotels will be able to do that using a new iPhone and iTouch application that parent Hilton Worldwide will announce today.

Hilton additionally will unveil Apple apps for its Conrad, Hilton Garden Inn, Homewood Suites and Hampton Inn chains. All will let guests check into their rooms remotely up to 48 hours

in advance, and let guests choose bed type, pillow type and more.

Hilton plans for the apps to become available that month and next, pending Apple’s approval.

Once they can be downloaded, Hilton’s apps will become the latest and most sophisticated of the apps recently launched by big hotel chains.

The chains are scrambling to create ways to keep up with consumers who increasingly arrange travel on the fly using mobile devices.

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