I get a lot of cards and letters, but I received one not too long ago that really impressed me. It made me so proud because it exemplifies more than the Marriott culture - this is about the essence of the human spirit. Let me tell you the story:
A few months ago, there was a minor car accident in front of our Renaissance Harborplace hotel in Baltimore, Maryland when a car struck . . .
Many of our Marriott employees are serving double duty, like Max Gomez. Let me tell you about Max. I met him a couple of weeks ago in Miami at the Miami Biscayne Bay Marriott hotel.
Max is an engineer at that hotel. He emigrated from Peru about 25 years ago and he joined . . .
Our company's roots go back to the restaurant business. My mom and dad opened their first A&W root beer stand in 1927 and when the weather got cold they put on chili, hot tamales, hamburgers and hot dogs and we were in the restaurant business. We opened a bunch of drive in restaurants called Hot Shoppes in the 1930s and 1940s and our roots are really grounded in food.
So we have always had a test kitchen at Marriott. Even back in the 1930s we were testing our recipes and making sure they were the best we could make them. We have a wonderful test kitchen here at headquarters and each month I sample the food we serve our guests in our hotels. It's a lot of fun and I give a lot of credit to Brad Nelson. He's our . . .
I received two interesting comments from a reader named Brian. He asked me why Marriott doesn't sponsor people from other countries to train in our hotels in the United States.
Actually, we do sponsor international associates to train in our country. Currently, we have 590 people from different countries training at our hotels in the U.S. on what's called a J-1 visa.
These associates train for a year in our domestic hotels and they are a great asset to our company. They possess great skills and bring . . .
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