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#13 - Sims Foster: the future of the hospitality industry, and doing business for local good
1 hour 21 minutes Posted Mar 9, 2021 at 7:00 am.
Introducing Foster Supply Hospitality (and a rogue refrigerator)
Why the Catskills is such a storied region, and how it’s changed so dramatically in the past few decades
Starting in hospitality: from dishwashing to digging into data
Bringing a music sensibility to the hospitality business and the importance of the practice room
Facing up to the prospect of constant tiny failures
The future of training in the hospitality industry
How Sims assesses new hotel and restaurant opportunities
Underrated factors that make or break a hospitality company
The colossal financial failure and making a recovery
Seeking out thought partners… and working with your life partner
Recognizing crisis, and moving forward
The importance of doing business for local good
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Sims Foster is co-founder of Foster Supply Hospitality - a group of rurally independent small hotels and restaurants based in New York's Catskills Mountains.
In this conversation we get into facing up to the inevitably of hundreds of tiny failures, finding thought partners, the importance of the practice room, how the hospitality industry could rethink the ways it trains talent, and why local matters.
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