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• Oakland gets a taste for gourmet
10.16.2009 Outlet: San Francisco Chronicle When Jeremy Umland was considering opening a second location of his popular San Francisco restaurant, Ozumo, he considered Napa and Walnut Creek. Instead, he decided to follow the money. "Investors and developers, all with a lot more cash to risk • 'Duck' Into Citizen Hotels Grange Restaurant For Some 'Fowl Play' 10.14.2009 Outlet: HotelChatter Where: 926 J St. [map], Sacramento, CA, United States, 95814 October 15, 2009 at 9:19 AM | by EricRosen | 0 Comments When it opened last December, we told you all about the geeky glory of the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento. Now we want to tell • Hotels get creative to cope with hard times 10.12.2009 Outlet: Miami Herald - Online, The Faced with the toughest financial crunch in decades, hotels are moving beyond typical discounts and offering unusual promotions to lure clients and create buzz. The 27-room Crane's BeachHouse in Delray Beach, for example, offers a ''The Bed-in for • I'M ASITTING IN MY OWN PRIVATE CABANA HERE AT THE HOTEL MAYA SWAGO. 10.12.2009 Outlet: KTLA Morning News - KTLA-TV HI, ALLIE. Reporter: GOOD MORNING, YOU GUYS. I'M ASITTING IN MY OWN PRIVATE CABANA HERE AT THE HOTEL MAYA SWAGO. WE'RE GOING TO WIND UP DINE LARESTAURANT WEEK. COMING UP WE'LL SHOW YOU ALL THE APPETIZERS, ENTTRAYS, ALL COMING UP LIVE FROM LONG BEA • In San Francisco, hotel rooms for less than $100 10.09.2009 Outlet: Austin American-Statesman - Online TRAVEL By Helen Anders SAN FRANCISCO The Good Hotel is a good hotel. Its rooms are small and spare but contemporary-cool, and they have everything you need: a bathroom, a safe, TV, free wireless, an iPod dock and clever art. Some rooms are even ai • San Francisco Japantown hotel delivers anime immersion 10.02.2009 Outlet: Los Angeles Times - Online Check into mainstream manga: A Bay Area Best Western rethemed by a boutique hotel chain buzzes with vibrant comic sensibility. Click to Enlarge Three unique restaurants in San Francisco Hotel Guide Restaurant Guide Attraction Guide • HOTELS 10.01.2009 Outlet: Los Angeles Times Infobox Infographic Hoping to keep its 119 rooms filled, Hotel Erwin on Venice Beach is offering an unusual promotion for its countercultural clientele: an Ink and Stay package that includes $100 toward a tattoo and a bottle of tequila to numb • Treating Your Employees Like Honored Guests = Outstanding Customer Service = Business Success 09.30.2009 Outlet: Fast Company - Online FC Expert Blog This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone. Chip Conley, founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre, the largest group of boutique hotels in California, believes in treating hi • Gourmet Stimulus Plan 09.30.2009 Outlet: North Bay Bohemian More than two dozen restaurants are offering $25 prix fixe menus as part of the inaugural Santa Cruz Restaurant Week, Oct. 1-8. Full menus are posted at www.santacruzrestaurantweek.com. Our advice: make reservations. Aptos Sanderling's Oc |
Share the Joy
Joie de Vivre Hospitality Celebrates the Spirit of the Season With a Promotion Designed To Deliver Joy to the World Acts of Kindness Are Rewarded With 'Share the Joy' Tokens And An Opportunity To Pay It Forward
San Francisco, November 27, 2006 - Beginning today, Joie de Vivre (JdV) Hospitality, California's largest boutique hotelier, will commence a two-month, grass-roots distribution of 5,000 'Share the Joy' tokens to good citizens in the community as well as individuals who truly practice random acts of kindness.
Honoring Goodwill
Each token, printed with a unique number, can be redeemed for surprises such as spa treatments, hotel rooms, restaurant discounts and entries into a grand prize drawing for a 2007 California getaway. In true spirit of the concept, recipients are then encouraged to 'pay it forward' to one additional person as a reward for a good deed done, spreading the joy 10,000 times over.
Putting a modern twist on this classic tradition of passing along good tidings, JdV Hospitality has created a special website to allow for unique registration, prize redemption and pay-it-forward inspiration.
Digital Kick-Off
Joie de Vivre Hospitality is proud to partner with Cingular Wireless and Energy 92.7 in hosting a kick-off event at Hotel Vitale. This event will be a culmination of a year-long promotion produced by both Cingular and Energy 92.7 where weekly 'good citizens' have been chosen.
All 50 individuals will be honored and recognized for their good deeds at this celebratory event and will receive the first 50 of the 5,000 Joie de Vivre 'Joy Tokens.'
"Considering the pace of today's digital age, sometimes it's the slowest form of communication that causes the biggest ripple," said JdV CEO Chip Conley. "The impact of personal interaction and recognition with a token of appreciation is most authentic . . . and in a time when avatars, email and voicemail rule, it's that authenticity that sparks a true holiday spirit."
About Joie de Vivre Hospitality
Based in San Francisco, Joie de Vivre Hospitality (www.jdvhotels.com) is a creative collection of lifestyle businesses. As the Bay area's most prolific hotel operator, the Joie de Vivre portfolio encompasses 40 hospitality businesses throughout California, including 30 boutique hotels with more than 2,800 guestrooms. The company also owns and operates San Francisco's largest day spa, the Kabuki Springs & Spa. Each property celebrates the San Francisco Bay Area through a unique visual style, uncompromising design principles, one-of-a-kind amenities and personalized service.
