the hospitality industry theme
A waiter, bartender, hotel maid or other hospitality industry worker is engaged in their chosen occupation.
14 total · 7 major · 7 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahp1x05 | major | Most of the story took place at a hotel and many of the characters were employed there. |
| ahp4x25 | major | Thelma was a Hotel waitress and the story portrayed her at work. |
| ahp7x09 | major | In his sketch, Alfred Hitchcock played the role of a wry waiter. The private investigator Mr. Frute took a job as a hotel restaurant waiter in order to spy on the waitress, Mrs. Morgan. |
| movie: Grand Hotel (1932) | major | The story is set in the Berlin Grand Hotel. Among other things Kringelein argured with the staff over the quality of his room and managed to get it up graded to a suite. |
| movie: The Lady Vanishes | major | A good part of the story took place in a rural hotel and heavily featured the manager and one of the maids. |
| nonfiction: Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) | major | The narrator described his experiences working at a Paris hotel. |
| theamericanshortstory08 | major | Mr. Scully was a small hotel owner and the story portrayed him at work. Mr. Scully did his utmost to be a paragon of hospitality so that his guests would be comfortable. He carried their bags from the station, helped them wash up, made sure they had a good dinner, and gave the Swede his prized gin from India to drink to calm his nerves. He also defended the Swede as a guest even though he displayed various types of boorishness. |
| ahp4x07 | minor | A hotel manager was exasperated about what a man making a spectacle of jumping to his death from a room window ledge would do for business. |
| futurama2x13 | minor | Elzar was a professional chef with a glamorous restaurant. |
| futurama2x15 | minor | The crew’s budding poppler enterprise was snatched up by fast food chain owner Fishy Joe. |