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A screaming baby or a child running through a dining room is never a pleasant sound or sight for diners, but one Northern California restaurant has decided to do something about the behavior of its pint-sized diners.
Shake's Old Fisherman's Grottoon Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey has banned loud children from its dining room. A sign out front reads: "Children crying or making loud noises are a distraction to other diners, and as such are not allowed in the dining room."
In addition to banning noisy kids, the sign also prohibits strollers, high chairs and booster chairs. Diners looking for a peaceful, quiet meal may let out a sigh of relief, but those with small children may see it as just another way of saying: "You're not welcome here."
"I'm completely shocked because I never had that happen," customer Niki Riviere told KSBW-TV. She left after not being able to get a high chair for her 6-month-old baby. "Usually they cater, at least have a high chair for the child, but it seemed like they didn't want any child. They said the child can't make any noises so they turned us away."
Chris Shake, who owns the restaurant, is standing by his policy.
If a place has the rules, thats what the rules are, Shake told KSBW-TV."You go in and abide by the rules or you find a place more suitable for you."
Earlier this year, chef Grant Achatz publicly contemplated banning infants from his Chicago restaurant Alinea after he observed an 8-month-old crying in his dining room.
Achatz tweeted: "Tbl brings 8mo.Old. It cries. Diners mad. Tell ppl no kids? Subject diners 2crying? Ppl take infants 2 plays? Concerts? Hate saying no,but.."
"I could hear it crying in the kitchen," Achatz told ABC News. "We want people to come and enjoy an experience at Alinea for what it is, but we also have to be cognizant of the other 80 people that have come in to experience Alinea that night."
We've reached out to Shake for comment and will let you know when we hear back.
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The law in California says that if you want to raise taxes to build something like a new Convention Center, you have to get two-thirds of voters to approve it.
Friday, an appellate court ruled that the city of San Diegos clever idea to raise the hotel-room tax, without actually asking voters to approve it, was not legal. And suddenly, the $520 million Convention Center expansion, the largest construction project on the citys docket, was thrown out.
The California Supreme Court is the only entity that can resurrect it.
The legal concern was clear a long time ago. The city was trying to raise a tax without doing the hard things that come with raising a tax.
Over the years, a diverse array of groups has argued it was illegal.
It included the Chargers, who wanted to kill the expansion to combine its momentum with their own stadium dreams. The U-T San Diego editorial board and ownership, with their own stadium dreams, also agreed and criticized the effort.
The hotel workers union thought it was illegal, and made some salient points before unions backed off once a labor agreement for construction was finalized.
And then there was, obviously, attorney Cory Briggs and watchdog Mel Shapiro. They actually did the work to prove it was illegal.
Heres what went wrong for the city.
Former Port Commissioner Steve Cushman and former Mayor Jerry Sanders came up with the plan to expand the Convention Center without a vote. They wanted to raise hotel-room taxes like they had with the Tourism Marketing District, or TMD.
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Cell phones have gotten a bad rap in restaurants lately -- from the viral Craigslist post about cell phones and service, to a City Paper column, to the opening of the phone-free Sheppard. But at the Oval Room, which reopens Monday after a $1 million revamp, you're invited to Instagram and Vine to your heart's content. And we've already gotten started with this photo of yellowfin tuna with ginger dressing and spicy tapioca below.
"Everything is photo-worthy, and some things are video-worthy," said Simon Stilwell, general manager for the restaurant. "We want people taking pictures of the food and the space and the drinks ... We want them to be part of the experience and to be able to share that with others, too."
Among those photo-worthy new additions: a series of bar snacks (fry bread, duck confit tater tots), a new Asian-inspired menu with char-grilled octopus, ginger-saffron marinated lobster, and crab salad with peach cocktail sauce, and a list of cocktails that reads like a Lou Bega song (They're named Monika, Rosalie, Alejandra, and Scarlett, among others). That's in addition to the sleek and modern new lighting fixtures, a marble bar, and bold abstract and representational art that now covers the walls, thanks to Martin Vahtra, who designed sister restaurants Rasika West End and NoPa. And to the commenter on Tom Sietsema's chat who inquired about the ladies' room -- yes, it's gotten a facelift, too.
The goal, said Knightsbridge Restaurant Group owner Ashok Bajaj, was to update the dated space so that both millennials and power lunchers would feel at home.
"Even the power diners ... everybody wants a little more relaxed restaurant," said Bajaj. But the new look doesn't mean that the proper service from the old version of the restaurant will go away: "Were not compromising on what our goals are here at all, in a fine dining way."
The first step towards bringing in a younger crowd was revamping the bar, which used to be an afterthought.
"Before, there was no real bar, it was just something in the way of getting to the dining room," said Stilwell. "Now the bar is very much a focal point of the restaurant."
It will also host the restaurant's first-ever happy hour, from 5-6:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, when diners can get 20 percent off of all drinks. The deal applies to the patio, too. Bar snacks will be an affordable $4-$7 and fine-dining deals abound: A four-course tasting menu is $60 ($90 with beverage pairings), and an entree-drink-dessert deal for lunch at the bar is $20.
Now that the renovation is complete, Bajaj says he's contemplating his next restaurant and scoping out locations. He offered no hints as to where it will be located, but said that it will likely be an Asian concept.
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Similar to the keyless entry pilot program launched by Starwood earlier this year, hotel giant Hilton plans on upgrading rooms with new technology that will allows guests to access a room by simply waving their smartphone in front of the door. Starting the upgrade process during 2015, guests taking advantage of the new keyless entry system wont need to bother with picking up entry key cards at the front desk. Detailed by Hilton today in a press release, Hilton expects to complete the upgrades at all hotels by 2016.
In addition to keyless entry with a mobile device, Hilton also plans on rolling outadditionalaccessibility in the form of digital check-in and check-out using a smartphone or tablet. Ideal for guests that are weary from extensive travel, checking in digitally, in combination with the keyless entry platform, means that guests can go directly to the room upon arrival.
Encouragingguests to enroll in the Hilton Honors program, the mobile app will also allow enrolled guests the ability to look through the hotels availableinventory and select a specific room. Similar to picking out an assignedseat in a movie theater, guests could specifically choose a room thats positioned away from other guests to ensure a restful night of sleep. Guests will also be able to check out photos of the different styles of rooms prior to making a selection.
Speaking about the room choosing feature, Hilton Worldwide globalhead of digitalGeraldine Calpin said We analyzed data and feedback from more than 40 million HHonors members, as well as guest surveys, social media posts and review sites, and its clear that guests want greater choice and control. In fact, in a recent study, 84 percent of business travelers surveyed said they wanted the ability to choose their own room. We are giving our guests the ability to do just that by enabling them to select not just their room type, but the exact location in the hotel, all the way down to their room number.
Beyond choosing a specific room in the hotel, guests will also be able to choose from a variety of upgrades through the mobile app. A guest could upgrade the size of the room to a higher quality or perhaps request special items be delivered to the room prior to arrival. This is somewhat similar to how upgrades are handled when checking in for a flight, either on a mobile application or while at a terminal in the airport.
According to Hilton representatives, the digital check-in support on mobile devices should be available at over 4,000 Hilton properties by the end of 2014. In addition, future digital enehancements will be available to guests every 6 to 8 weeks as the development team continues to build upon the digital check-in platform.
Regarding platform support for the smartphone check-in feature, Hilton has yet to announce all thesmartphone platforms that will be supported. However, both iOS and Android are at the top of the list. Its also likely thatlow power Bluetooth technology will be used at the hotel room doors to maximize platform support across different smartphones.
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The Rodd Grand Hotel is one of four local establishments subject to a room levy tax used towards marketing and promotion. TINA COMEAU PHOTO
The chair of the Yarmouth and Acadian Shores Tourism Association (YASTA) says he is excited that the association will be working with the Yarmouth Room Levy Group more closely in the future.
Something Ive heard since our inception is there wasnt enough industry input and with this, theres certainly going to be more of that, said John Cunningham.
The plan is for the group to become a full funding partner of the organization with members from the group sitting on the YASTA board.
Manager Neil MacKenzie says the industry-led group has been partnering with YASTA for nearly three years on group sales efforts, providing approximately $45,000 over that period.
The addition of them as a full partner strengthens us, both in stability and in focus. More industry input is what weve been striving for, he said.
Both bodies have an agreement in principal and are working together to amend YASTAs bylaws to establish full partnership, tentatively by September.
As a full funding partner the room levy group will be contributing approximately $60,000 per year for a three to five-year period.
They will also have up to three voting members on the YASTA board. At present they have no voting members.
With the group as voting members, Cunningham says YASTA may head in a slightly different direction in regards to packaging experiences and advertising, using the YASTA group sales position.
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Soon you won't need hotel room keys -- you will just need your iPhone, tablet or Androiddevice to check into an accommodation and unlock your bedroom.
That is, at least, if you're staying at one of the Hilton's hotels, which has announced a couple of tech-based upgrades to its properties.
In addition to being able to unlock doors with your smartphone, Hilton guests will be able to pre-select exact rooms from a hotel floorplan in a way reminiscent of how most airlines operate their seat reservations.
Specifics surrounding the technology have been vague, such as whether the smartphone keys will use NFC, or an app, or some alternative. Answering Wired.co.uk's questions this morning, a Hilton spokesperson in the UK arm of the business said "there will be a mobile enabled room key", which is only moderately more useful to know than the company's existing statement that "we are developing proprietary technology that is safe and reliable for our guests to use, and cost-effective for our hotels to install".
Extracting logic from semantics, it seems guests will download and install a proprietary app on their devices, which will allow visitors to log into their Hilton internet account and select an option to unlock their door with a password -- no front desk will be required.
There are other methods emerging onto the market that could, in future, be used in hotels. One such example is the forthcoming Nymi wristband, which uses a person's unique heartbeat to unlock doors and other devices simply by approaching them.
Additionally, security expert at the University of Cambridge, Frank Stajano, was recentlyquoted in the Guardian discussing how an "electronic aura" broadcast from a device worn on the body could be detected by supported devices and used as a replacement to computer passwords.
Hilton is to roll out its mobile door unlocking and related features worldwide between now and 2016.
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By THOMAS GALLICK Wednesday July 30, 2014 1:29 PM
A Powell man hopes to transform a home near the city's downtown into a 10-room bed and breakfast.
Gene Rodriguez brought initial plans for the Day Dream Inn to Powell's Planning and Zoning Commission at its July 23 meeting. Rodriguez plans to build a 10-room addition to the early 20th-century home at 80 E. Olentangy St., just west of its intersection with Grace Drive.
Rodriguez said the closest hotels to downtown Powell are located about five miles away in Dublin. He said many visitors to Powell would continue to use those facilities, but he thought the city could easily support a small bed and breakfast.
"Overnight guests would include ... corporate travelers, golf and recreational users, holiday and festival revelers, visiting relatives, shoppers and diners," he said.
City officials said they liked the use for the 0.46-acre site, but questioned how 10 units and 10 parking spaces could fit on the property without creating problems.
The commission took no action on the proposal at the meeting, which served as the board's introduction to the project.
Rocky Kambo, a planner with the city's development department, said some parking spaces as shown on the site's initial plans encroach on the public right of way. Other spaces could obstruct the views of motorists turning right onto Olentangy Street from Grace Drive, he said.
Kambo also questioned whether the 10-unit addition would work on the site. He suggested reducing both the number of units and parking spots could solve potential problems.
"It's a great use. We think it's perfectly in line with what we have here in Powell," he said. "It's just the intensity of what we're seeing on the site may be more than the site can handle."
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