Goldbelly is a curated online marketplace for regional and artisanal foods crafted by local food purveyors throughout the United States....Founded as 'Goldbely' by Joe Ariel, the company began its operation from a townhouse in Noe Valley in San Francisco with a four-person team of Ariel, Trevor Stow, Vanessa Torrivilla and Joel Gillman.[5][6][7][8] The site accepted into Y-Combinator in 2013.[9] Time Magazine named Goldbelly one of the 50 Best Websites of 2013.[10] In 2013, Goldbelly closed on $3 million seed funding led by Intel Capital.
In 2017 the company moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City.[13] In October 2018, the company changed their name from Goldbely (with one L) to Goldbelly (with two Ls), raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Enlightened Hospitality Investments, the fund formed by Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group, and had Danny Meyer join the company's advisory board.
Meyer was born and raised in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis,[1] where he attended John Burroughs School. As a child Meyer attended Camp Nebagamon for boys in Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin. During college Meyer worked for his father as a tour guide in Rome and then returned to Rome to study international politics. Meyer was a Brother of Alpha Delta Phi while at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. After graduating from Trinity in 1980 with a degree in political science,[2] Meyer worked in Chicago as Cook County Field Director for John Anderson's 1980 independent presidential campaign.
In 1985, at age 27, Meyer opened his first restaurant, Union Square Cafe.[4] Meyer's other restaurants and businesses include Gramercy Tavern, Blue Smoke and Jazz Standard, Shake Shack, The Modern, Cafe 2 and Terrace 5 at MoMA, Maialino at the Gramercy Park Hotel, Untitled at the North End Grill, Marta, Porchlight, GreenRiver, Union Square Events, and Hospitality Quotient.[5] Union Square Events, USHG's catering division, operates several concessions at major sports facilities including Citi Field, Saratoga Race Course, and Nationals Park.
In 2010, Meyer suffered his first restaurant closure, Tabla. In a statement, Meyer blamed the closure on the specificity of the Indian cuisine offered by the restaurant. [7] That same year, Meyer participated in a documentary called "The Restaurateur".[
Meyer has served on the boards of Share Our Strength and City Harvest.[19] In addition, he served as Co-Chair of the Union Square Partnership for 5 years[20] and as an executive committee member for NYC & Co and the Madison Square Park Conservancy.
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MercurysBall2 ago
Family and friends use the back door at Arcaro & Genell - https://www.psdispatch.com/news/local-news-1/61818/family-and-friends-use-the-back-door-at-arcaro-genell
“We don’t consider that the kitchen door; we consider that the family and friends door,” he said. “Family and friends, they walk through the kitchen to come to the restaurant. Some restaurants put tables in the kitchen as a novelty, but people just come in there automatically.”
That list of family and friends started in 1962 when Angelo’s parents Angelo and Marie Genell went into business with Marie’s brothers, Frank and Anthony Arcaro. They purchased Laurenzi’s Restaurant at 443 S. Main St., lent their surnames in alphabetical order and started a tradition that continues with Angelo and his brother, Mark.
Angelo, 58, said 2018 marks 40 years working at the restaurant in an official capacity. He doesn’t count the years he wasn’t paid.
“We lived upstairs, so we were always downstairs helping our family,” Angelo said. “The next thing you know, 40 years have gone by.”
During that time, he and Mark learned the family recipes they keep alive today, including their pizza’s cheese blend, which Mark calls “top secret.”
Angelo said their pizza’s popularity can be attributed to a number of things — its rectangular shape, its balance between heavy and light, its aforementioned cheese blend — but the most alluring aspect has nothing to do with the pie.
Along with its Italian dining experience, Arcaro & Genell also keeps another Italian tradition alive: bocce. The outdoor game, which originated in Ancient Rome, traveled with Italian immigrants to their new homes. Today, Angelo said it’s become a popular pastime at the restaurant.
“We’re involved with the bocce leagues with the Sons of Italy in Old Forge, and it’s starting to be a place where a lot of people can have fundraisers and raise money in a fun way,” Angelo said. Angelo said he doesn’t think of hosting bocce leagues and
perpetuating his family recipes as consciously keeping tradition alive. He said it’s something he and Mark do automatically. “It’s just part of your makeup. You can’t make that happen, you know what I mean,” Angelo said. “It’s just the way we were brought up.”
There’s a list of kitchen-door-using family and friends who’d probably argue they were raised properly.
Psalm67 ago
Is Bocce anything like Ping Pong? Hmm.
kestrel9 ago
So? Just because Trump stopped there while campaigning? So look into every place that uses the Goldbelly delivery service.
Now they're on your radar because they play in bocce leagues? You've lost perspective in your Trump hatred imho.
MercurysBall2 ago
And btw, it was the title of the article that drew my attention. Go read it again. And you do know that is Mafia country, right?
MercurysBall2 ago
I don't hate Trump. I look for connections between places, people and things. That is all. Get a grip.
kestrel9 ago
If you don't hate Trump (and that doesn't mean you have to support him obviously) then I'm sorry, I was mistaken. I was under the impression that you felt the same about him as @think-
MercurysBall2 ago
I'm on the fence about him. Like everyone here I was overjoyed when he won in 2016. Sometimes I think he's really working to expose the bastards and sometimes I despair at the people who work within his administration. I understand that bringing down a cabal does not happen overnight but I think it's important to adopt critical thinking. I am critical of him sometimes and when I find articles on him that are factual and don't necessarily paint him in a positive light I pay attention to those too. I believe that it is really up to us, the people, to haul the politicians up by their bootstraps and not to give someone a free pass because of political ideology. For me, the fact that he came in almost as an independent candidate and not as a traditional Republican is a positive. In this post, the way we went into that pizza place I see more as an indication that he has heard about it and was making that public. I don't know if he was endorsing it. Somehow I get the impression he was shining light there. I don't know his reasons but I pay attention to current events. We're on the same team.
kestrel9 ago
Thanks for clarifying your position and I agree that critical thinking is always important. Regarding the pizza place, Trump's comments seemed pretty straight forward to me, it was a stop intended to take a political opportunity to make a point about Joe Biden as a candidate than it was to have some obscure message about Goldbelly, Prince Harry and Megan Markle. If there is a hidden meaning I would look first at the Biden corruption, Ukraine, China etc. (Edit: although I just found this about Jill Biden and Prince Harry go figure lol "Prince Harry at the 2014 Invictus Games...‒ everywhere Prince Harry went...he had this blonde woman on his arm ‒ the Vice President’s wife!" )
From reading the QRV post and yours, I did not get the impression that there is a case to be made against the pizza place in of itself, and to do so based on Trump's campaign stop there seems unfair to their business which appears thus far to be a legit family business. That was in part, the basis of my complaint tbh.
Yes we are :) and I very much appreciate your hard work as a PG researcher.
MercurysBall2 ago
Yeah, I agree it was more about Biden. That's why I included his name in the title. I don't think Trump was tracking the place back to Whinge and Cringe but the pizza places in that area have mafia connections and that's an interesting link.
I just googled Biden and mafia - this is the first thing that came up: 1972 United States Senate election in Delaware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_United_States_Senate_election_in_Delaware
Meghan Markle is clearly a plant of the DS and the royal family.. you know the rest..
Your Jill Biden and Harry link:
It's all DS. Remember Biden, Water Island, close to Lolita Island.
kestrel9 ago
yes the mafia is a huge topic, comes up time and again.
http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/9152/bernard-madoff-the-mafia-and-the-friends-of-michael-milken
Noteworthy APRIL 2016 Blaze erupted in the apartment of Bernie Madoff associate Ezra Merkin, don't want to miss this!
Leon Black back in the news http://archive.is/dcCI6 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-23/apollo-chairman-leon-black-to-be-subpoenaed-in-epstein-case-nyt
More Epstein Connections: A Wall Steet Billionaire, Links to Black Ops Firm, and Ties to Felon who owns KinderCare
https://voat.co/v/thinkdrafts/3799238
Some additional info on the dynamic couple's charity hopping https://distincttoday.net/2020/07/28/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-formally-shut-down-the-sussex-royal-foundation/
Side street on the subject of eco tourism, islands and elites:
https://voat.co/v/GreatAwakening/3359170
http://archive.is/VdqMU The Storming of St. Barth’s 2010
of interest https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a8523/bruno-magras-st-barts/
MercurysBall2 ago
Looking at St Barth's will take you to Kate Middleton's family .. and that is a whole other rabbit hole that Brits are largely unaware of.
kestrel9 ago
I added to my comment, check it out if you didn't catch it, regarding Dominic Reid
^^yes! thanks for reminder
2017 Invictus Games was the backdrop for Markle/Harry. https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a33488286/prince-harry-meghan-markle-engaged-2017-invictus-games/
and who can forget Giustra/Prince Harry/Markle in Canada https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10724306/prince-harry-meghan-markle-canadian-tycoon-frank-giustra-mansion/