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Hotels are offering Silicon Valley perks to address staffing shortages

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As a result, many hotel employees—from concierges to cleaners—suddenly have access to an array of perks and benefits which were once reserved for office workers at financial services and technology companies.

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Who Knows Anthony Bourdain?

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Anthony Bourdain in 2013. Don’t get used to it,” he once told Mike Ruffino, his composer for No Reservations and Parts Unknown. You want me to get you a taxi, but you’re in a hotel with a very fancy concierge. Because all of that mundane stuff, the restaurant reservations, etc., Photo by Isaac Brekken/WireImage.

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‘Jiro Dreams of Sushi’ and the American Omakase Boom

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A decade into the “Jiro” era, omakase has become both a rarified experience — and one that’s rife for future experimentation In 2013, even though I could not afford it (not like there was a time when I could afford it), I saved up my money and got a reservation at Sushi Nakazawa soon after it opened. In Los Angeles.