097: Creating a Unique Identity for Your Inn

Steve Short, how's it going? It's going well, Matt.

We're doing something here where we're kind of revisiting, at least by memory, your old stomping grounds.

That is right.

And also, too, it's the first time we've interviewed innkeepers in a long time.

But also, yes, in my old stomping ground.

This interview is with Bruce and Emily Hopp, who are the owners of the Landgrove Inn restaurant and studio based in Landgrove in Vermont, which is one of the next towns over from where I lived.

for many years in Manchester, Vermont.

So I'm getting all nostalgic.

I want to go back and visit and check these guys

out.

I want to go there for the first time because it sounds awesome.

I mean, great, great discussion.

Really cool couple.

And it's so cool when they've taken over this property that obviously it sounds really neat.

It was, I'm sure, managed and operated really well before the Now they've taken it and they're just running with it, doing it their own way, but keeping up with the whole core idea of having this art studio with all of these workshops and the draws, that's the big draw.

So I think it's a great listen for any innkeeper, anybody with a property that's either got something going, you know, and how they might want to expand that? Or is thinking about how do I partner? We talked a bit about it before on previous podcasts over the years that you've got to differentiate.

You've got to have something that's kind of your identity, basically, as a property, as a brand.

And so with them, it's about the art studio and the restaurant.

There's got a restaurant that supports it.

And of course, the 16 room in, it sounds really awesome.

I don't consider myself artistic, but I'd still love to go up.

I think it would be a great, great trip and to check it out.

Sounds really cool.

Yeah, it does sound really cool.

And they also get like renowned art teachers and artists to do it.