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Plot Twist! It’s What’s For Dinner
These days, ‘surprise and delight’ is a tactic belonging to most brand’s marketing strategies. While success varies, the concept remains a sound and self explanatory one: enhance customer engagement with unexpected rewards. And yet, as surprising and delightful as dining can be, it’s not exactly a tactic baked into most restaurant programming. I get it, a restaurant is a busy place. This was all on my mind a few Saturdays ago when I took my mother to one of our favorite restaurants for her 82...
Plot Twist! It’s What’s For Dinner
These days, ‘surprise and delight’ is a tactic belonging to most brand’s marketing strategies. While success varies, the concept remains a sound and self explanatory one: enhance customer engagement with unexpected rewards. And yet, as surprising and delightful as dining can be, it’s not exactly a tactic baked into most restaurant programming. I get it, a restaurant is a busy place. This was all on my mind a few Saturdays ago when I took my mother to one of our favorite restaurants for her 82...
The Almond Mom-Almond Daughter Revolution
Imagine yourself as Gwyneth Paltrow for a day: you start with a nice intermittent fast, snack on a few things that won’t “spike your blood sugar,” then it’s onto bone broth for lunch followed by a nice paleo dinner, both meals supporting “your detox.” Oh, and you make sure to do one hour of movement, or so the actress declares in a controversial clip about her “wellness routine” — one in which critics claim the Goop founder regresses to a toxic dieting culture that’s no longer acceptable. Tik...
The Almond Mom-Almond Daughter Revolution
Imagine yourself as Gwyneth Paltrow for a day: you start with a nice intermittent fast, snack on a few things that won’t “spike your blood sugar,” then it’s onto bone broth for lunch followed by a nice paleo dinner, both meals supporting “your detox.” Oh, and you make sure to do one hour of movement, or so the actress declares in a controversial clip about her “wellness routine” — one in which critics claim the Goop founder regresses to a toxic dieting culture that’s no longer acceptable. Tik...
It Didn’t Happen by Accident: LA’s Original A-List Restaurant
Welcome to It Didn’t Happen By Accident, a new series in which we look back at legendary restaurants and the tactics that took them to the top. In honor of the 95th Academy Awards happening this Sunday, writer Darrell Hartman kicks things off by going deep on Romanoff’s – Hollywood’s OG celebrity hot spot. We hope you enjoy, and would love to hear your feedback in the comments below. Prince Michael Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky-Romanoff was about 50 years old when he opened a groundbreaking...
It Didn’t Happen by Accident: LA’s Original A-List Restaurant
Welcome to It Didn’t Happen By Accident, a new series in which we look back at legendary restaurants and the tactics that took them to the top. In honor of the 95th Academy Awards happening this Sunday, writer Darrell Hartman kicks things off by going deep on Romanoff’s – Hollywood’s OG celebrity hot spot. We hope you enjoy, and would love to hear your feedback in the comments below. Prince Michael Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky-Romanoff was about 50 years old when he opened a groundbreaking...
5 Factors That Determine a 🔥 Spot
We all know how hard it is to get a reservation these days. We feel it, and we’ve read about it. Of course, this isn’t true for all great restaurants. There are still neighborhood standbys and tried-and-true spots that are easy to walk into (or snag a day-of reservation at) because they’re out of the limelight, and maybe never even craved the limelight in the first place. And yet the game to get into hot spots — i.e., Horses in LA, Carbone in New York and Miami, San Ho Won in San Francisco, t...
5 Factors That Determine a 🔥 Spot
We all know how hard it is to get a reservation these days. We feel it, and we’ve read about it. Of course, this isn’t true for all great restaurants. There are still neighborhood standbys and tried-and-true spots that are easy to walk into (or snag a day-of reservation at) because they’re out of the limelight, and maybe never even craved the limelight in the first place. And yet the game to get into hot spots — i.e., Horses in LA, Carbone in New York and Miami, San Ho Won in San Francisco, t...
From the Kids Table: Divorce Sushi
Welcome to From The Kids Table, a personal essay series we’re beta testing. On some Sundays, we’ll ask writers to share childhood memories about dining out. For our third installment, author Katy Kelleher writes about her parents’ divorce, and how she and her father attempted to mend their strained relationship through the power of raw fish. We hope you enjoy, and would love to hear your feedback in the comments below. There’s a trope in rom-coms where the two leads bond over people watching....
From the Kids Table: Divorce Sushi
Welcome to From The Kids Table, a personal essay series we’re beta testing. On some Sundays, we’ll ask writers to share childhood memories about dining out. For our third installment, author Katy Kelleher writes about her parents’ divorce, and how she and her father attempted to mend their strained relationship through the power of raw fish. We hope you enjoy, and would love to hear your feedback in the comments below. There’s a trope in rom-coms where the two leads bond over people watching....
