The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/hotel-school/)
In recognition of a $50 million donation from alumni Peter Nolan ’80, MBA ’82 and Stephanie Nolan ’84, the hotel school will be renamed the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration.
2 Stay 2 Go, the entirely student-run restaurant that made their debut last semester, is back up and running. With an expanded staff, the business has grown to include more community service, meal donations to help end food insecurity in Ithaca and a catering program.
Instead of tastings in the Statler Hall Auditorium, professors teaching Wines, Cider Production and other alcohol-based classes have been getting creative, making at-home tasting kits for students.
Known for his surreptitious giving campaigns — recently donating the last of his fortune — the former hotel school student is more than a businessman. He is a philanthropic institution at Cornell and beyond — and soon, he’ll be the namesake of the road that runs through the Ithaca campus.
After opening during a pandemic, 2 Stay 2 Go shuttered for two weeks after an employee tested positive for COVID-19.
Opening a restaurant in the middle of a global pandemic is crazy, and critics would say it’s impossible. Sitting inside of 2 Stay 2 Go during the soft opening just proves otherwise. Food is about bringing people together — something that’s been lacking in this technological, socially-distanced age. Most of us are spending all day in our apartments or dorms, staring at screens and lamenting the good old days when we used to be face-to-face and not mask-to-mask. The opening of a new Collegetown restaurant is exactly what students needed to pull them out of their hovels.
Daniel Jones ’22, a student in the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, came up with the idea to open a pop-up restaurant in Collegetown from Oct. 8 until Nov. 8, two weeks before I joined them for a full run-through of their menu. Jones was determined to keep the restaurant 100 percent student-run and operated, and not even a week later, he recruited his team from across the graduating classes at Cornell. Noah Horns ’22 and Bobby Dandliker ’22 are his co-executive chefs, Samay Bansal ’21) is acting as his president, Sabrina Sam ’22 is his pastry chef and Luke Verzella ’23 and Elin Atonsson ’23 are his marketing directors.
Students in the School of Hotel Administration are getting the experience of running the Statler’s restaurant virtually — complete with takeout containers and video surveillance to ensure that their planned night goes smoothly.
This week, I was lucky enough to interview Max Aronson, a recent Cornell graduate from 2019. Graduating from the School of Hotel Administration with a concentration in Beverage Management, he is now an assistant server at Eleven Madison Park — a fine dining restaurant located in the Flatiron District of Manhattan. Eleven Madison Park is ranked third among The World’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2016 and is known for their taste and presentation. Let’s take a look at how Max is doing today. 1.
Howard Meek, an American educator of hotel management, founded a hospitality program at Cornell in 1922, at the request of the American Hotel Association and hotel magnates during that time period.