Hospitality – the friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers in which the host receives the guests with goodwill.

It is a common complaint that companies now provide a disappointing level of customer service.  But merely providing good service is not enough for a business to be assured of success. In a superb article on the Skift[1] hospitality website, 6 Basic Lessons in Hospitality From Danny Meyer, Deanna Ting summarizes a discussion held with Mr. Meyer at New York University in which he encourages businesses to go beyond service to providing customers with remarkable hospitality.  Mr. Meyer is a renowned restauranteur and the force behind acclaimed New York based restaurants such as Shake Shack, The Modern, Gramercy Tavern, and Union Square Café.

Ms. Ting’s article reviews six lessons from Mr. Meyer on hospitality, which have broad importance for entrepreneurs.  This post considers lessons for business owners from all types of industries from the discussion with Mr. Meyer at NYU and from his New York Times best-selling book, Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business.  Mr. Meyer explains it this way:
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