A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.
A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.
Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's reputation is based. The gap in pay is so great that it is becoming increasingly difficult for young cooks to pursue their passion at the rate of pay restaurants are able to afford.
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.
A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.
All you need to do is to get clients in the hotel door; then they hand you their wallets for five days.
