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- Crain's Detroit Business
- Article date:
- December 8, 2008
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AAA gives MGM Grand a pair of 4-diamond ratings
MGM Grand Detroit has earned two top honors in the hospitality industry, winning a pair of Four Diamond awards from Heathrow, Fla.-based AAA.
It marks the first property in Detroit to get the award for both a restaurant and a hotel, winning for the 400-room hotel and the Saltwater restaurant.
John Hutar, vice president of hotel operations, said he requested that AAA consider the hotel and Saltwater two months after the property opened last November.
"For hoteliers, this is what drives us, he said. "After I signed that letter, I asked the staff if they're all in for this. They were, so ...