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Delaware North Companies
Travel Hospitality Services
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Despite its more than 60 years in the business,
Delaware North Companies Travel Hospitality
Services reinvested in its brand in a major way
in 2009. The results, quite frankly, have
been astounding.
Under the leadership of operating company
President Matt King and a new business
development team, Delaware North announced
a wave of strategic alliances with high-profile
national brands such as Food Network, Travel
Channel, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and
Which Wich. It also began working with Iron
Chef Masaharu Morimoto on a new airport
dining concept.
Some of these new partnerships are providing
Delaware North with added appeal in seeking
new and expanded airport contracts. Others
have already resulted in completed or soon-
to-be-developed new locations, including
Sports Illustrated, Heineken, The Coffee
Bean & Tea Leaf, Moe’s Southwest Grill and
Pink’s Hot Dogs.
Pink’s, a second location of the well-known
Hollywood gourmet hot dog restaurant, is just
one of a number of new concepts Delaware
North is adding or has added over the last year
that fits the company’s innovative Gateway
Concept SM . Delaware North works to select
appropriate local, regional and national brands
that enable airports to reflect their communities
and serve as economic engines for the region.
With a strategy centered on meeting the demands
of a new generation of travelers who seek fresh,
fast and healthy dining options, Delaware North
Companies Travel Hospitality Services is
well-positioned to increase its market share
as one of the nation’s leading airport food
service and retail companies.
With a little help from our friends
Delaware North Companies Travel Hospitality
Services announced in October 2009 that it
is teaming up with celebrity chef Masaharu
Morimoto to develop new fast-casual airport
restaurants at several larger airports across
the country.
The new restaurant concept, Skewers, will feature
yakitori-style meals – skewered meats with vegetables
grilled or fried and served with rice bowls. Yakitori
is popular as street and bar food in Japan, but is
little known in the United States. Soups and salads
will also be on the menu, which is intended to
offer fare that is convenient, tasty and healthy.
“The restaurant will provide travelers with
a unique Asian dining experience and
connect them with Morimoto’s fabulous
interpretation of Japanese cuisine,” said
Matt King, president of Delaware North
Companies Travel Hospitality Services.
In addition to working with Morimoto, one
of Food Network’s most well-known iron
chefs, Delaware North is collaborating with
the popular cable television station on several
new airport dining concepts.
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