On April 5th, the members of
Cayuga Corporate took part in a “different” kind of monthly meeting. We met at 9 a.m. at Hans Pfister's house in Escazu for a cup of freshly brewed Costa Rican coffee. Cayuga’s executive chef, Jose Lopez, introduced the group to William, a Sushi and Sashimi expert. William spent two hours teaching the Cayuga team the secrets of Sushi…from rice preparation to fish selection to making the rolls. While Sushi is not exactly a Costa Rican dish, it has become very popular over the last few years. One reason is because Costa Rica has some of the freshest fish available. We offer Sushi at
Arenas del Mar and
Harmony Nosara and are thinking of adding sushi dishes as specials at some of our other hotels.
After our corporate meeting, where one of the main topics of discussion was how to reduce carbon footprints (check out how you are doing at
calculator.carbonfootprint.com or
myfootprint.org), we went on to prepare something more local for lunch. Jose brought some great corvina and tuna and we all got to work chopping onions, garlic, cilantro, avocado, etc preparing for an incredible ceviche meal. Ceviche is served at all of our hotels in one form or another and is raw fish “cooked” in lemon juice. With a cold beer or chilled glass of Sauvignon Blanc, it is probably one of the best
lunches on a tropical beach that you can imagine.
We made two kinds of ceviches and the verdict from everyone present was “amazing”. Why don’t we all do things like this more often? As Ana Maria, our Human Resources Coordinator pointed out, this is not your typical corporate meeting and not many employees in hotel companies have the chance to experience this. It most likely has to do with our slogan:
Experience, Learn, Connect & Relax. Where we not only want to create incredible experiences for our guests, providing them with learning opportunities and chances to connect with the local culture, at the same time, we also want to provide that same culture to our employees and ourselves.
Our next meeting is in early May, after the
Lapathon in
Lapa Rios. We were thinking of doing an event around the
Waterfall Luncheon at Lapa Rios. I am sure we will come up with something really special!
We'll upload more photos from the day on our
Facebook page this week!
