What I’d really love to hear is how his business and “town restorations” increased employment, income, and education levels in the surrounding community. I feel that’s really the fulfillment of the ultimate potential of a great dining experience . A brilliant legacy isn’t just closing doors behind you by making places exclusive, expensive, and pretty but opening doors for pre-existing communities and younger generations. Boomers, Silents, and many Xers are great at removing ugly blight, through hard work only to hoard capital and loosen regulations so drastically, that future generations would have virtually none of the easy ability & support to create new enterprises, get a college degree on the cheap; or move up the ladder at a job that was loyal to its workers, or make a living wage as an entry level or manual labor worker. Maybe that part of his legacy will be in the sequel.

I definitely appreciate people with the hard work, intention, and vision to create beautiful and healing experiences, yet I find it deeply morally unsettling the unabashed way he describes transforming imperfect, poor towns and buildings without missing a beat, referring to it as “removing trash.” This unfortunately is the sort of naïve hubris - the big blind spot of Baby Boomers who wanted to “teach the world to sing in perfect harmony,” - that I’ve come to know and expect of this generation. But it’s the sort of consequence free, privileged thinking that reminds me of the visionaries who divided and mowed down many middle-class and poor inner city neighborhoods in Washington DC and virtually all large American cities, in order to give white people more places to access highways and build whatever their privileged“ visions of the future” seemed exciting & lucrative at the time. Unfortunately, this blindness to deeply embedded colonialism still resides within even liberal culture and individuals. This sort of naïve or classist & racist thinking brought about the systematic “imminent domain“ and red-lining process of gentrification all across the nation. Nearly always done without much concern and/ or deliberate intent to erase pre-existing communities . This includes poor and working class rural whites in places like Little Washington as well as urban working & middle, sometimes upper middle class folks of all colors.

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Its time for tim talks !!!

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Brakus Heights

Christopher Walken story starts at 23:55, he didn’t imitate him, lasted 5secs

Really good👍

Yes , he is so down to earth , and his other executive partners are just as sharp and smart as can be !

Amazing Magician ❤ Dan makes me wonder and experience real magic every time, I just have no words to describe it. I am just shocked how he works on me as the numbers he wrote on the board has huge meaning for me like no other numbers in the world 😃 And he couldn't do any research on me as I watched this years after it was recorded! He brings so much joy to the world, what a beautiful soul 🙏🏻😊

Very beautiful speech ❤😢

Bro sean you a funny guy bro

No bleeps. Awesome!

Wonderful!

Beautiful!!

Inspiring, generational and heart felt from one of the most successful restaurateurs on the planet.

Thank you. Mr Koch's is insightful

You’re an amazing person , man and I love to eat can’t cook like you. Your a god David Chang

Thank you for sharing your stories and inspiration. ❤️

Wonderful! Thomas Kochs is delightful & very charming! The way he looks at things is very refreshing. It is no wonder that he provides such amazing experiences for the Guests in each Hotel that he manages. He did this so brilliantly at Claridge's & he also accomplishes this splendidly now at Corinthia as well. He is indeed brilliant, as well as emanates such a sweetness & humility. He is definitely a person who would be such a joy to meet or to know. Thank you for sharing this wonderful Commentary from him!

We made a video on why this theory is no longer responding our world conditions. Just in 4 years that much thing changed. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5jPYYCCiLZ8gNE

The essence of hospitality.

I would love to find any essay or scholarly articles written about this subject. If anyone has any suggestions please comment.

Actually they’re rarely right.

YAY DANNY ! This is Wendy Spector from STL. I moved back from CT 2 years ago. I know this video is 8 years old. but I just saw it. Today is Jan. 2024- Your content and delivery in this talk is SO excellent. I watched it twice. I think you could speak at an APA conference on this topic if you wanted to. Wishing you well and BRAVO ------

It is such a joy to watch a fellow bubble master at work!

Long after your guest for the evening are gone. They may forget what you said or what you served them for dinner or what wine you paired. But they will remember how you made them feel . Service is what you do for a guest . Hospitality is how you make them feel. Anyone can learn the skills of service but not everyone has the spirit of hospitality

This man put is hands on another worker and nearly got arrested for assault.

Lilla is a racist company. I worked there for a month and have received nothing but racial tentions and tones there. Tho missy was very nice to me, her staff are racists and run her concept into the ground with racial tones. Your HR director has just did something illegal to violate my rights …. Gm

PARADISIAC

This was phenomenal

Beautiful thankyou

I suspect infinite-game businesses play a series of finite games.

Very lovely! Really exquisite!

I had the opportunity to work at Ford as a product development engineer when he was CEO and let me tell you, the working environment was amazing, everybody was willing to help each other, every single individual knew what the goal was and was focused towards it. There were no backstabbing or people left out of projects, it was amazing to see how everybody worked as a unit. The results: the Ford Fiesta, the great Fusion, the 50th anniversary Mustang, and the redesigned world platform Focus. I have worked in other companies after my time at Ford and by far this was my favorite, it has a special place in my professional career, I still miss it but I needed to keep growing somewhere else.

love her book. she is an incredibly good writer and a great chef

That crowd didn’t understand the pure sorcery that they were witnessing.

Well said ❤❤❤

I hope I meet my future husband at Claridge's.😅

Great message and turn around, but to be devils advocate he also drove a Lexus to the bailout hearing, so the bit about the Ford garage being full of Land rovers, volvos and Aston Martins is a little bit fresh.

I love listening him

I was right - you are a comedian!!!

Amazing duo. ❤

Inspiring gentleman who live with his passion and hope he will converted it into so many aspects of his life. with love from Angel, Elmegade Copenhagen.

Thank you

Common sense. Rational. Considerate. Selfless. A good man. …odd.

Awesome

Loving Che in the hippie tie-dye- he looks so white.....

would love to have access to that server...

It has not been there since 1892. The hotel was founded in 1894