Analysis Of The Chandler's Ship Restaurant

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Introduction:
The chandler’s ship restaurant is private-dinner serving restaurant found in an old building located at gelderskade 8 street in Amsterdam. This restaurant is unique and different than the common restaurants found in the city of Amsterdam. Unlike the other restaurants, it is serves particular group of tourists. The setting of the restaurant and the way it operates also differ from other restaurants in the Amsterdam. For this and some other reasons, I have chosen the location to be the focus of my study. Therefore, this ethnographic study examines the uniqueness of the restaurant in general and the kind of people dining at that restaurant in particular. To provide a vivid illustration on the aforementioned issues, both interviews
Firstly, The restaurant is old and staffs used in the restaurant are traditional too. In this way, it reflects the heritage of Dutch voyages and culture. Secondly, the restaurant is proving that traditional restaurants can still compete with the modern restaurants. The last and the most important thing about the restaurant is that ‘privacy’. Tourists or local officials are unlikely to get such restaurant, in Amsterdam, where they can get full service. In this restaurant, everything is arranged in the way they need it to be. They can discuss private issues without any disruption as if they are at their own home. In nutshell, the restaurant provides such visitors with much freedom of acting and enjoying their time with their own
Unlike other tourists, they are much of protocol and prefer to remain calm. They do not want to accompany their enjoyment by music or dance while having drinks. After having a trip outside and dinner at chandlers restaurant, the spent the rest of the evening discussing about business issues. They enjoy their stay at the city at the same time they reserve some time for business issues. Therefore, for them, the restaurant is not only place of recreation but also point where business issues are discussed and planned.
The other thing, I was able to learn from the study was that chandlers ship restaurant is one of the historical restaurants aims to reveal tradition of the Dutch people. Items kept in the restaurant gives different feelings to tourists. The artifacts may remind them things they know in history about voyages conducted from that area to different parts of the world. Therefore, the restaurant is a place of heritage and traditional Dutch

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