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Customer #1: We're
digging into the best item on the menu, your cheese-stuffed potato.
MARC: Oh, you got
that right. I had points in my life when I thought I was going to leave the
hospitality industry, but I always came back to it.
HATTIE: What do you
think kept drawing you back, just the excitement, the familiarity...
MARC: All of the
above.
HATTIE: ...your
father did it, your grandfather did it...
MARC: It's where my
pride lies, it's what I know, it's what I love. It was bred into me. And it's
also where my expertise lies. It's like a whole different place for me. It just
has a lot of memory and a lot of I just love it. I just love the kitchen
HATTIE: What
business do you think you're in? I mean, you don't just make sandwiches.
MARC: Oh, gosh, no.
I'm in the people business. This is about what people do. We provide a lot of
hospitality to people. And we serve great food and we have great music. But
that's not why we're successful. That's like an added attraction. That's a
bonus that put us from a level of success to something so far beyond anything I
could have ever imagined. And it's because we are perceived with quality, we're
perceived as a good member of the community, we're perceived with integrity,
we're perceived as being philanthropic, we're perceived as caring, we're
perceived as wanting you here. Our main--the way I could personalize our theory
of hospitality is for me to say to you, `I am glad you're here.' How're you all
doing?
Unidentified Man
#2: Fine.
Unidentified Woman
#2: Hello.
MARC: Did you know
our hours? Did you know we never close?
Unidentified Woman
#3: The hours that are like 26 hours a day?
MARC: Just
checking.
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