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Jon Taffer

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1. “We were also the company when we got it hired by all the hotel companies. I'm the guy who flew around America closing almost every top floor restaurant on every hotel, moving them from those things into food and beverage operations that would be successful. We did that for many years, did hundreds of hotels got very, very good at it, Barry. And we opened my first restaurant, which I owned myself. I opened St. Louis in 1989.”

   2020-05-22 · Masters in Business · Jon Taffer on Bars, Restaurants and Hotels on Lockdown (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “You know, in the mid 80s, tax codes changed, Barry, and it got to the point that hotels could no longer write off certain deductions. So restaurants and bars and hotels had previously been more amenities. They weren't run as profit centers. They were run really as service mechanisms to support guest room sales in a hotel. Well, when those tax codes changed, my company was very successful. This is back in the mid-80s. And I created a company to teach the hotel industry how to make money in food and beverage, which believe it or not, they weren't good at then. And these are all the hotel franchises around the country. I won't mention brands, but household brands, 1,200 hotels in one company, 800 in another. So we went in in those days, hotel restaurants, Barry weren't exactly the greatest. Hotel bars you wouldn't even go to. So we're the company that built all the outside entrances in and tried to create position for the local market.”

   2020-05-22 · Masters in Business · Jon Taffer on Bars, Restaurants and Hotels on Lockdown (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “You know, it's funny when I went to high school back in those days, a lot of us went west. We just went to California. That's what we did. So I had taken music lessons when I was in high school. I was a drummer. I was very serious about it. Took lessons for nine years and went to California actually to pursue a music career. And in my pursuit of the music career, I started managing a nightclub one day, the Troubadour, the very famous Troubadour in Hollywood, California, which had opened in 57. Letty Bruce was arrested on a Troubadour stage, Barry, for saying something I won't repeat. That's the kind of history that that place had. So I got a job at the Troubadour and started managing it. And one thing led to another, and I've been in a bar and hospitality management business ever since, but I've run bars, restaurants, resort, hotels. I've really worked in every facet of the hospitality industry.”

   2020-05-22 · Masters in Business · Jon Taffer on Bars, Restaurants and Hotels on Lockdown (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source