St Regis' Macaron

So my co-worker had to help run a lunch at St. Regis Hotel. Since we can't all go, she brought back some treats for us. This is a little dessert pack from the hotel. It has in it, (from L to R)a dark chocolate truffle, a nut truffle, a white chocolate truffle, and a macaron.
The pied (feet) looks great. It's tiny and cute to fit into their boxes...

As you can see, it barely measures to be 1 inch in diameter. So small.

I bit into it, and that's where things fell apart, literally. A good macaron should be chewy when you bit into it. This one, I bit into it and it all shattered. Which means it's too dry, and just been moist enough to keep it together. If it all shatters that can also means that it's been sitting out for too long.

Now, here's the tsk tsk for the hotel. For an upscale hotel like St. Regis who has a high tea that has a long waiting list, I'm surprised that they served a subpar macaron. I'm not sure if they're hoping the recipient doesn't know any better, or they just want to knock something out to fill the 4th spot in the box. It's one of those, if you can't do it well, don't do it type thing. In this situation, they shouldn't have done it. I rather them stick another truffle in there than to put a shattered, tasteless macaron in there. I was highly disappointed. Hope that was a fluke and not the norm.