Hi this is Ted Kelly with Ted's Hospitality Minute. Today we've got a special guest and Andy Cajka with Southern Hospitality Group and he welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about you and SHG. Ted thank you very much for this invite great to see you. Wish it was in person but this seems to be pretty consistent these days. We do appreciate this opportunity again name of my company is Southern Hospitality Group and it was formed in 1998 for the purpose of developing and managing mainly franchised hotels. We started our first franchise with Hilton Corporation and then we moved in to do some Marriott properties and approved for Hyatt properties and then also involved with some independent development and management myself. I started in this business at an early age 13, washing dishes grew up in Cleveland Ohio and went to went to school to maybe get out of the restaurant business and thought I'd go into manufacturing or in a management and that was coming out at the time of our first my first experience of a downturn of the recession of back in 82 and so I got had an opportunity to go into the hotel business with a local Holiday Inn as a assistant food and beverage director. So that was the beginning of the of the hotel and hospitality career and then was very very fortunate to join Hyatt Hotels and have a corporate career with them and travel with various Hyatt operations twice here in Greenville South Carolina and also did a corporate stick with Hyatt corporate director rooms which is where I was able to open 14 Hyatts and experience that side of the business.

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