36 minutes ago, chromedome said:I should point out that not all hotel restaurants are run by the hotel. Company-owned spaces are often just there as an adjunct of the primary (room-renting) business. Independent operators leasing space in a hotel, as I was, are more motivated to turn a profit/attract a clientele in their own right.
Indeed. For many years, my brother ran a restaurant in a hotel in the UK. He merely rented the kitchen and dining room space from hotel owners. It catered mostly to business travellers and, to be honest, my brother gave it up in the end because business travellers generally didn't want to eat the kind to food he preferred to cook. They tended to be unimaginative and unwilling to try anything even slightly out of the normal (in their eyes).
He was making money, but was bored out of his skull. He has moved on to better things. Less money but more satisfaction.
