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I agree with this...we need to extend hospitality everywhere in our business. It's a culture of care. Don't sell to people, serve the customer and they'll grow your business in no small ways.

Will Guidara's stance on "unreasonable hospitality" is intriguing, suggesting a bold departure from the ordinary in pursuit of customer delight. While it sounds appealing, the challenge lies in defining what's "unreasonable" without veering into wastefulness. Striking that balance could elevate a restaurant's reputation and profitability, but it's a risky bet in an industry where margins are tight. It's a call for innovation and customer-centricity, but one that demands careful navigation to avoid excess. Are diners ready to pay for the "unreasonable"? That's the real question. #HospitalityInnovation #CustomerCentricity #AdditionalInsights

Thank you so much Will Guidara. Your presentation delivers extraordinary insight. Products alone no longer make the grade. "It's how you make people feel." To all who read this message: What do you do to make people feel they have had an extraordinary experience? Let me know your USP, now UCE, "Unique Client Experience." I will be a pleasure to share your wisdom, inspiration and creativity to help others deliver their personalized Extraordinary Experience. Working together, we can change the world, one experience at a time.

"One who loves all living beings serves God."

If you want over the top hospitality there can’t be a disparity between the customer and employee experience. If you purely focus on radical hospitality you can run the risk of exasperating your employees, by essentially stating they are second class. If you focus on the employee experience in conjunction with the customer experience, radical hospitality is truly possible.

Of course it is true that the human connection matters. There are places in Asia that use traditional hospitality to full effect which is an extremely pleasant experience. A culture of hospitable behaviours is instilled in staff but one can sense that it is genuine and it is done with humility. So will we do it for the sake of being good hospitable humans being kind to our fellow humans, or will we do it for better profits? And ‘technical perfection’ in hospitality? I do hope there would be some technically perfect genuineness too. Too much of anything comes with natural consequences. The world today needs better humans, not better businesses.

I always felt the difference between people that worked in hospital industry versus those who did not. Insightful perspective.

Absolutely! It's truly wonderful for everyone, not just the customer!

This sounds lovely. I guess this is leading a trend for high end, very expensive venues. I am very cheered to see that you are championing human connection as the critical component. Outside this bubble, the historic juggernaut of corporate business have been sucking out every bit of human connection and service they can from the experiences of the not-wealthy. Same effect via the third party corporations who broker business practices for smaller businesses who don’t have that in-house infrastructure, by hook or by crook- I’m repurposing that phrase into a euphemism). I want to be fair: Maybe you mean to lead the business world into kinder more human practices for all customers. Your examples don’t spell that to me— asking now: what would you do to restore the human touch and the meeting of even basic human needs in hospitality for all? Airlines’ subjecting groups of 100s of customers inside a enclosed capsule high in the air to DBT-forming (not hyperbole) cramped spaces is one well known abomination. I have no doubt this disappearsnce of comfort and even minimal personal space has much to do with the emotional turmoil so frequently erupting on air flights now. A lovely injection of stress and experience into our population.