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Article: Rive Gauche revival: outside company breathes fresh life into Baur au Lac's F&B offering.(food & beverage)
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- Hotels
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- November 1, 2005
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What do you do when you lose your chef who created a thriving restaurant concept and, in turn, that concept loses some of its cache? For the Rive Gauche Restaurant & Bar in the renowned Baur an Lac hotel in Zurich, it meant starting over. The management team decided to close the 7-year-old establishment to reposition it with the goal of attracting a younger and trendier clientele. To accomplish that aim, for the first time in the hotel's long history, the management team looked outside its own skills set to bring in a company whose sole business is creating and operating stand-alone restaurants. It wanted to find a partner to help with concept creation, design, staffing ...