{"id":13517,"date":"2017-07-18T13:58:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T17:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/?p=13517"},"modified":"2017-07-18T13:58:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T17:58:39","slug":"breaking-danny-meyer-wins-2017-julia-child-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/2017\/07\/18\/breaking-danny-meyer-wins-2017-julia-child-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Danny Meyer wins 2017 Julia Child Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer wins the Julia Child Award<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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By\u00a0Maura Judkis<\/a><\/span>\u00a0July 18 at 9:00 AM<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nUnion Square Hospitality Group\u2019s Danny Meyer is the newest Julia Child Award winner. (Photo by Melissa Hom)<\/span><\/div>\n

Julia Child taught restaurateur Danny Meyer one of the most important lessons he\u2019s ever learned about hospitality. It was many years ago at the\u00a0Union Square Cafe \u2014 he can\u2019t recall exactly when \u2014 and he had received notice that she would be coming in for a celebration.
\n\u201cOf course I spent the entire day, and day before, transfixed on what this experience would be like,\u201d Meyer said. He put some of the late chef\u2019s\u00a0favorite dishes on the menus, and made sure they were freshly printed. When she came in with a group of 12 or so people, \u201cOf course, the entire time she was there, I was obsessing over her table the entire meal.\u201d
\nChild had a lovely dinner. The next day, Meyer received a hand-delivered letter from the New York Times, and was excited to open it up and read it.
\n\u201cIt turned out to be a very long typewritten letter from the managing editor of the New York Times\u00a0telling me that he had been at the restaurant the last night, and Julia Child was at the next table. And \u2018It\u00a0was clear that we mattered a lot less than she did.\u2019 It turned out to be a scathing and very very painful letter to read. He was absolutely right, in retrospect,\u201d Meyer said. \u201cIt taught me one of the most important lessons of my career, which is that there\u2019s only one Julia Child, but there are many regulars and celebrities that come to the restaurant. The lesson was how critically important it is to pay more attention to the people you don\u2019t know first, because then they won\u2019t notice how much time you\u2019re spending elsewhere. But if you go to people you don\u2019t know last, they may spend their entire meal with the feeling that they didn\u2019t matter to you.\u201d
\nMeyer, of course, went on to write \u201cSetting the Table,\u201d one of the most impactful books on hospitality. And on Tuesday, the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts announced that the Shake Shack founder and owner of more than a dozen other restaurants will be the recipient of this year\u2019s Julia Child Award for his influence\u00a0on the hospitality industry. When he heard the news a few months ago, he was on his way to Chez Panisse, and \u201cI was skipping up the steps to the restaurant.\u201d
\nThat memorable visit from Child wasn\u2019t the first time she had come to his restaurant, which was\u00a0shortly after Union Square Cafe had opened.
\n\u201cAs a 27-year-old first-time restaurateur, to have Julia Child come into the restaurant was akin to if I were the priest of a very small church and the pope were to pay a visit,\u201d Meyer said. \u201cIt completely rocked my world and it helped to put us on the map.\u201d
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