Eloise, who?
Hotel Brat Revisited is a personal narrative series exploring what it means to grow up living your father’s work, while living IN your father’s work. Through stories of family relocations, grand openings, and late-night lobby adventures, I revisit the beautiful, chaotic rhythm of life behind the scenes.
It’s about belonging and displacement, ambition and tenderness, obsession and family — and how the lessons of hospitality shaped not just my father’s career, but the person I became.
This isn’t a tell-all; but it does explore what it is like to grow up knowing that everything is temporary, and that home is where you make it. It’s a love letter to every hotel employee that embraced an awkward and lonely kid, accepting her in a way her peers would not. an industry and a childhood built on constant change, connection, and the unspoken code of care that every good host knows by heart.
I started Hospitality Inherited to explore my father’s career, and to celebrate the art of hospitality. I hadn’t expected to tell my story, but it is hard to explain why my Dad was such an incredible General Manager, if you don’t know about the insecurities, the relationships, and the mistakes.
Thanks for stopping by!
Jenn
A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the Birth Canal…
On January 1, 1966, Frank Adam Rota was on track to achieve the highest ranks of management at the New York Hilton Rockefeller Center - which had been added to the NYC landscape a mere two years earlier.
A little over a year later, I popped into the world.
This chapter introduces the characters who were the core people in the life of Frank Rota, and the tumultuous results of a social life lived when most are asleep. Most of all, it’s about maintaining your best professional life, while chaos owns your personal life.
Join me while I revisit a year that includes a pregnancy, divorce, and a custody battle of a baby still inside the womb.
