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My appreciation of the power of hospitality and my desire to harness it have been the greatest contributors to whatever success my restaurants and businesses have had. I’ve learned how crucially important it is to put hospitality to work, first for the people who work for me and subsequently for all the other people and stakeholders who are in any ... See more
Danny Meyer • Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business


Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business,
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
If you define culture as the way we do things around here and you’re a growing organization, well, of course you have to be doing things differently. You have to do things differently around here. The one thing that must not change is your value system. That’s your compass. North always has to be north, and west has to be west, and east has to be e... See more
Shane Parrish • Danny Meyer: Hospitality and Humanity [The Knowledge Project Ep. #115] - Farnam Street
"We're not trying to please everybody. We're not cooking for critics. I cook for customers. If I started cooking for critics, I'd probably be really miserable." - David Chang
Designing For Desire
We need stewards in design who can help people rediscover what is meaningful and step away (even if momentarily) from the clinical lens of business logic by which design has merely become a business tool (read: design thinking).
Angelos Arnis • Designing for the last earth
the metal ring. A thin metal ring, or cut-down section of PVC pipe, about an inch and a half to two inches tall and varying inches across, is the backbone of pretentious food presentation. Just
Anthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Global Brooklyn: Designing Food Experiences in Global Cities,