Born and raised in Brooklyn, the vice chairman of Fox Way of life Hospitality Group, Oneca Maffei, will let you know being within the hospitality and restaurant business was not one thing she deliberate for.
“I wasn’t the kid that knew particularly what I wished to do,” Maffei advised BLACK ENTERPRISE. “You recognize I didn’t come out of the womb saying I wish to be a trainer or a health care provider, I had quite a lot of pursuits and passions and I actually simply wished to reside an intentional life that was positively, persistently impacting folks, so from a younger age I knew I had the power to attach in a short time and I used to be good at guiding people to channels the place I knew they might thrive however I didn’t know that was a job.”
The Brown College alumna started working within the hospitality business as a hostess and within the retail business for L’oreal, Bloomingdales, and Barney’s. She additionally went to culinary college as a result of as Maffei put it, “I didn’t know boil water.”
Maffei admitted that she fell in love with offering an expertise for folks, and has achieved simply that with the Parlour Room, which Maffei is a companion in. She describes it as an eclectic, romantic whiskey emporium in the midst of Manhattan, sporting greater than 400 whiskeys behind the bar and several other menus.
The restaurant opened final December on 70 West thirty sixth Road, two blocks from Macy’s flagship retailer on thirty fourth Road. The Parlour Room’s ambiance is heat and welcoming, because the restaurant is draped in velvet, with a chandelier, and a fire. Mixing its whiskeys with a particularly considerate cocktail program with a bevy of spirits makes the Parlour Room really feel much more enchanting.
Maffei’s journey to The Parlour Room began when she was employed by the Fox Way of life Hospitality Group as its human sources director. Maffei hit the bottom operating within the place, doing quite a lot of work exterior of her typical duties. That bought Maffei a promotion to vice chairman and, lower than a 12 months into the function, she started considering of how the group might increase.
When she came upon an area opened up subsequent to The Ragtrader, a restaurant owned by the Fox Group in midtown Manhattan, Fox Hospitality President Mark Fox requested Maffei to be a companion within the subsequent restaurant, which finally grew to become The Parlour Room.
“I used to be simply actually passionate and had an actual love for folks after which I used to be simply actually open about the place that journey was going to hold me and I’m glad it carried me right here,” Maffei mentioned.
“It was extraordinarily thrilling to get the provide to be a companion and I used to be completely satisfied as a result of I get to make use of each the artistic and analytical sides of my mind, whereas additionally having a agency grip on the folks and tradition aspect of the corporate as a result of I used to be already vice chairman.”
