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.
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?