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The Open University, the future is open. Welcome to this episode of Talking Points. I'm your host Brian Kelly The Points

Guy and today we've got a really interesting guest. You know we've had Tony Award winners and CEOs on this

podcast but today I think it's our first James Beard Award winner 28 times

over I believe. welcome Danny Meyer CEO of Union Square

Hospitality Group I'm so happy to be here and to meet you we have come to meet

each other because points run deep in your family from what I hear.

Well points not only run deep, but travel does.

So I grew up in St. Louis and my dad was a travel agent.

Oh really? He and my mom for the first two years of their marriage lived on the border of Alsas and Germany because he was a

counterintelligence officer in the army. The promise the story is going somewhere.

But the reason that he was recruited to do that was because he had a real gift for languages.

And the time, the two years that they were there, were basically

spent as a two-year honeymoon because there were no altercations during those two

years and they spent their entire time driving through the French countryside getting to know

innkeepers mostly who would take them in and feed them so he comes back to

St Louis starts a travel agency because everyone wanted to know where you know where they should take these driving trips

and he ended up becoming the first American agent for a fledgling group of inns which were then called Relaya Campagna,

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