Yin, alongside seasoned hospitality leaders
Kevin Boehm, Will Guidara, Hanson
Li, Dan Simons and
Lien Ta guide OpenTable on its
ongoing mission to help restaurants thrive
SAN
FRANCISCO, Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/
-- OpenTable, a leader in restaurant technology, today
announces the appointment of industry veteran, Ellen Yin, to its Advisory Board. Yin founded
and co-owns High Street Hospitality Group, a James Beard Foundation
Award-winning restaurant group based in Philadelphia which includes the 25-year legacy
restaurant, Fork, the recent reopening of High Street and
a.kitchen+bar in AKA Rittenhouse Square. In 2023, Yin was named
"Outstanding Restaurateur" by the James Beard Foundation.
Yin joins a distinguished cohort of industry titans including
Kevin Boehm, co-CEO and co-founder
of Boka Restaurant Group in Chicago; Will
Guidara, author of "Unreasonable Hospitality" and co-founder
of The Welcome Conference in New York
City; Hanson Li, founder of
Salt Partners Group in San
Francisco; Dan Simons,
founder and co-owner of Farmers Restaurant Group in Washington, D.C.; and Lien Ta, co-founder of RE:Her and co-owner of
Here's Looking at You and All Day Baby in Los Angeles. For more details, visit
OpenTable's Advisory Board website.
In this remit, Yin will collaborate with OpenTable and other
advisory board members to further support OpenTable's mission of
helping restaurants solve their biggest challenges. Board members
bring their deep industry knowledge to help prioritize OpenTable's
product and innovation pipeline, guide decision making on agenda
setting issues, inform industry-leading partnerships and
integrations and more.
"OpenTable is deeply committed to supporting the restaurant
industry, and growing and investing in our Advisory Board is key to
informing our focus areas," said Debby
Soo, CEO of OpenTable. "Ellen has been a decade-long partner
to OpenTable and a passionate and loyal steward to the hospitality
industry for even longer – we're thrilled to have her join."
"OpenTable has been a trusted partner for many years and
recently, I've seen so much growth and positive change in the
company and its mission," said Yin. "I'm excited to take on this
new role to help them continue to innovate and best serve operators
like myself – while deepening my commitment to the hospitality
industry."
Yin has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and serves on
the boards of community organizations including the Philadelphia
Award, the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation and the Arden
Theatre Company. She is also a co-chair of Sisterly Love
Collective, an alliance of women restaurateurs and food
entrepreneurs, and a program of the Philadelphia arm of Les Dames d'Escoffier, a 501(c)(3) organization.
Yin also serves as a mentor to emerging hospitality talent in and
outside of her restaurants, and is dedicated to uplifting the
industry including underrepresented groups.
Learn more about the advisory board by visiting the website:
restaurant.opentable.com/advisory-board.
About OpenTable
OpenTable, a global leader in
restaurant tech and part of Booking Holdings,
Inc. (NASDAQ:BKNG), helps 55,000 restaurants, bars, wineries
and other venues worldwide fill 1.6 billion seats a year. OpenTable
powers reservations, experiences, payments, guest insights and
operations, enabling restaurants to focus on doing what they do
best: providing great hospitality.
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