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Behind the Service15 October 2026

The most interesting thing in one of America's largest buffets is not the food

A couple of days ago I watched a video about Shady Maple Smorgasbord - a huge buffet in Pennsylvania, USA. The scale is impressive: thousands of guests, a huge kitchen, hundreds of employees.

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Off the Rubrics3 October 2026

It seems I have fallen out of the channel life a bit

The last post was a month ago, and quite a lot has managed to happen during this time. As you know, I spent the summer in the USA, where I worked at a five-star hotel that met Forbes standards. This was not just another seasonal job - I gained a lot of experience, met interesting people and, what is especially pleasant, made several connections that could very well be useful to me in the future.

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Off the Rubrics27 August 2026

Do travels make the world bigger or smaller?

My acquaintance with traveling began long before my first independent trips. I used to watch "Orel i Reshka", memorizing cities, hotels, airports and trying to imagine what it would be like to one day end up there myself. Back then, most of these places existed for me much like movie sets: interesting to watch, but located somewhere in a completely different reality.

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Behind the Service4 September 2026

What is 5-star service?

A new rubric in byLIMONOV Here I will sometimes show the hospitality sphere and other services not from the guest's side, but from the inside: how good service is actually built, what employees are taught, what happens behind the scenes of restaurants and resorts, and what small details make up that very experience for which people then give five stars.

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Off the Rubrics22 August 2026

Bratislava is finally becoming a city from which you can fly

Until recently, the phrase "flying from Bratislava" quite often meant first boarding a bus and going to Vienna airport.

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Off the Rubrics17 August 2026

The day that had peacocks, Spider-Man and a blue McDonald’s

On our day off, my girlfriend and I decided to get out of the house and spend the day as simply as possible: walk through Cottonwood and then take a shuttle to Sedona.

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