FLORENCE, South Carolina—Raines introduced that restaurant veterans Chris Corridor and Ryan Turner will function strategic advisors throughout Woven by Raines, the corporate’s way of life division centered on boutique properties all through the Southeast. Corridor and Turner are the co-founders of Atlanta-based Unsukay Eating places and produce greater than twenty years of expertise growing and working restaurant ideas.
As Woven grows, the collaboration offers Raines and its traders the flexibility to deliver restaurant retailers to life, program them persistently, and drive each income and revenue all through the portfolio. It additionally creates the flexibleness to re-concept or refresh menus when a property requires it, with out important capital reinvestment.
Corridor and Turner’s involvement with Raines started via the conversion of the Rose Hill Property in Aiken, SC, into a life-style expertise consisting of a boutique lodge, upscale eating, and different facilities. Constructing on the success of that undertaking, they are going to now assist form meals and beverage technique throughout Woven, with extra alternatives anticipated all through choose Raines properties as they emerge.
Statements From Management
“Partnerships like this are how we’ll proceed to lift the bar on the visitor expertise and stand aside as a administration firm,” mentioned Gray Raines, managing associate of Raines. “Chris and Ryan are two of the most effective within the enterprise and produce a uncommon mixture of restaurant credibility, operational depth, cultural readability, and hospitality intuition. Their perspective will assist us proceed elevating the usual for what meals and beverage, and hospitality can develop into throughout our portfolio. We’re enthusiastic about what we will construct collectively at Woven.”
“We’ve all the time created restaurant experiences we’d need to dine and work in ourselves,” Turner mentioned. “We consider the hospitality expertise is constructed from inside, and each element have to be designed to really feel intentional, private, and memorable. Chris and I are excited to deliver our many years of expertise to Woven and help their imaginative and prescient for meals and beverage that turns into a defining a part of the visitor expertise. The Raines staff understands that meals and beverage isn’t just an amenity. Completed effectively, it turns into a part of the property’s identification and a driver of long-term visitor loyalty.”
