Traditionally, the brand had only male butlers, but Ms. Holladay said that 40 percent of the company's butlers today are women.
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The staff of butlers are even ready to serve multi-lingual guests, as Caesars has butlers who speak several languages, including Arabic or Cantonese, McBurney says.
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My husband, Mahir, and I recently tested the butlers at the St. Regis New York, a 238-room property in Midtown Manhattan that had butlers long before they became more mainstream.
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One solution that didn't occur to him was robot butlers.
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These financial butlers are not stuck in the past, however.
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Idle butlers will be forced to play solitaire ad infinitum.
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Many Chinese also learn how to be butlers in Europe.
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The number of butlers in China is hard to determine.
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The Foreign Office butlers are expected to find their own housing.
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Robot butlers at Las Vegas hotel aim to elevate guests&apos experiences.
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I think the bigger risk ... Come on, they have kombucha butlers there.
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Promoters of butlers in China often point out that the country has its own tradition of high-end service, and the classical Chinese novel, "Dream of the Red Chamber," features traditional butlers, called "guanjia," or "domestic manager," in Mandarin.
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They are also more tolerant of their owners'—sorry, butlers'—erratic working hours.
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Shares in Mitchell & Butlers — a FTSE 250 company — were flat at 0715 GMT.
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A few days later, Ms. Roth still had not heard from the Butlers.
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Ms. Roth said the Butlers were planning to drive to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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Tablets now control every room within suites and allow communication with suite butlers.
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I was eager to explore what lay beyond plunge pools and bath butlers.
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In the morning, discreet butlers will deliver coffee or tea via small hatches.
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If you don't have a car, see if Ski Butlers serves the area.
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I'd witness the flying cars, floating cities, and robotic butlers of some unknown future.
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Rival pub and restaurant groups including Mitchells & Butlers and Whitbread are battling similar issues.
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"It's so the cats can hear their butlers' voices," explains the owner, Cho Hanna.
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Beyond butlers and secretaries, what roles and personalities could these AI agents take on?
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What the industry does: Employs workers like butlers, housekeepers, and cooks in private households.
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The role is not new, and there are currently three government butlers on payroll.
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Test Run The St. Regis New York has butlers as an amenity for guests.
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"Eventually, the idea of butlers seeped into the hotel space in Europe," she said.
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The "beach butlers" are at your service, and kayaks and snorkel gear are freely available.
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South Koreans go one further, describing themselves as cat "butlers", pandering to every feline whim.
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In March, the Times released a piece with insights from one of Trump's longtime butlers.
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There's also an infinity pool, tanning beds and private butlers attending to Fab's every need.
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Beachfront rooms and villas come with their own butlers and personal full-sized swimming pools.
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That's even before you add in footmen and butlers, ladies-in-waiting and the media.
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It has two dining rooms, a sun porch, a pantry for butlers, and staff offices.
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Instead, Williams has been charged with felony theft of the Butlers' truck and RV trailer.
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The Butlers set off October 15 from their home state for a camping trip south.
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Might there be any rich, blond old guys with possible robot butlers in the show?
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She and her siblings grew up surrounded by maids, butlers, nannies, chauffeurs and other servants.
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Specialist logistics companies, like Natural Le Coultre, are the quiet butlers of the art world.
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The Butlers said they did not know Aitcheson was a priest until Tuesday, according to WJLA.
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Soon, the Butlers headed to a nearby beach where they could park free, Ms. Roth said.
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Ditto the Grand Tier boxes, which will have their own butlers; and ditto the next tier.
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Airbnb's new luxury service lets you book private islands and villas with boxing rings and butlers.
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She was the most beloved first lady among the butlers and maids on the residence staff.
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The Butlers filed a motion on Monday through their lawyer, Danielle D'Ambrose, to dismiss the lawsuit.
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Thanks to our butlers, our stay at the St. Regis New York was flawless and personalized.
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Amenities range from "camping butlers" to a resident "S'moreologist" tasked with prepping the perfect campfire snack.
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His assistant scheduled the appointments; his butlers watched them come and go from his Palm Beach estate.
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If I had to sum it all up in two words, those words would be: HOVERBOARD BUTLERS.
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From plug sockets and bacon to butlers and nudists, here are 10 of the of strangest... 1.
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The Luxury Beach Club will provide guests with personal butlers, mixologists mixing Champagne cocktails, and resident DJs.
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Six butlers take care of the well-being of the guests in the three most expensive rooms.
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Investigators have not mentioned a possible motive for the murders or described how the Butlers were killed.
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The metaphorical robot butler has already left the factory, and people really, really like their robot butlers.
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Butlers can tack $900 on to a room plus $50 to $100 per day for a tip.
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They brought their teenage sons along to help, making it a family affair of Rowans and Butlers.
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From thermostats to speakers to robot butlers, the Utopian version of Terminator 2 is almost becoming a reality.
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Thanks to this research, robotic butlers might one day be accessible to more than just the super rich.
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The African-American residence staff, especially the butlers, had tears in their eyes when the Obamas moved in.
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The biggest hotels have over 500 rooms and more than a dozen restaurants; the poshest provide personal butlers.
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Shares in peers Marston's, Mitchells & Butlers and J D Wetherspoon all fell between 2.9 percent to 6.5 percent.
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That's dramatically fewer than the regular number of ushers and butlers, for example -- approximately eight and six, respectively.
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A writer joins the team of butlers at the majestic Plaza Hotel in New York for two days.
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Over the course of 36 hours, we put three different butlers through the paces with our numerous requests.
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The New York property employs 38 butlers, and typically, each butler is in charge of about 20 rooms.
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His wife, Fanny, along with faithful maids, butlers, drivers, and messengers, helped arrange it all to his liking.
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Every floor has a team of personal butlers who are there waiting to attend to your every desire.
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Along the way, maybe we get robot butlers, maybe we're stuffed into embryonic pods and harvested for energy.
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Butlers are supposed to have a deep knowledge of their employers' every foible, traditionally recorded in a book.
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When it comes to flying cars, robot butlers, and teleportation, the future we were promised isn't quite here yet.
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Some people are pretty convinced that the future will be filled with flying cars and jetpacks and robot butlers.
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Mitchells & Butlers Plc blamed economic and political uncertainty in the UK for its decision to cancel its next dividend.
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The Kleberg County Sheriff's Office declined to comment Monday on how or when they believe the Butlers were killed.
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At the news conference on Tuesday, the authorities said that other people could be involved in the Butlers' killings.
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The chief usher manages all White House residence activities and oversees staffs of butlers, maids, chefs, florists and electricians.
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Shares in rivals Marston's, Mitchells & Butlers and J D Wetherspoon all fell, by between 2.6 percent and 8.5 percent.
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The jobs range from chefs in the kitchen to groundskeepers, maintenance workers, ushers, plumbers, housekeepers, painters, florists and butlers.
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"The government is not asking for 'house managers,' but 'butlers' because it is a very British thing," he said.
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Guests had a multi-course meal prepared by the White House chef and served by 22 White House butlers.
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Other hotels, such as the St. Regis New York and the Connaught, in London, provide butlers for all rooms.
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Being a travel writer, I've gotten my fair share of news releases in the last year about hotel butlers.
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Scenic's all-inclusive river ship cruises come with personal butlers, complimentary beverages and a long list of other extras.
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Fuller has joined its peers Mitchells & Butlers and J D Wetherspoon which posted impressive performances during the festive season.
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" And perhaps most tellingly, "It is encouraged for all butlers to develop their own personal touch to this service.
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He's to Prince Charles, William and Harry, and his company Nicholas Veitch founded The Royal School of Etiquette and Butlers.
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Even under Mr. Xi, butlers are finding growing work as symbols of good taste, according to people in the business.
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Pub operator Mitchells & Butlers Plc recently reported a steady start to 2017, crediting 'particularly strong' trading over the festive period.
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William and Simone ButlerThe Butlers' boat was attacked by whales while 1,200 miles off the coast of Costa Rica in 22010.
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But for simple questions, these bots' answers are not instantaneous in a way we might associate with our new robo-butlers.
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The amenities sound incredible: robot butlers and guest cabins with screens designed to look like you're staying on an alien planet.
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UK government advice to avoid pubs, clubs, restaurants, cinemas and theatres is hitting Whitbread, Marston's , Cineworld, JD Weatherspoon and Mitchells & Butlers.
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During our time there, we did not run into another guest, though there was no shortage of housekeepers, groundskeepers and butlers.
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It has money, sex, drugs; it has Newport, New York and Europe; it has nobility; it has maids, butlers, a gardener.
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The luxury shops and restaurants similarly attract well-heeled types who are also drawn to the resort's VIP lounges with butlers.
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A lot of promises were made about what the future would look like, and there's definitely a severe lack of robot butlers.
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If you've ever wanted to be like those people with their fancy techno car butlers, you should check out the Echo Auto.
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Along the way you'll see a few Mr. Handys, floating robotic butlers who explain the finer points of how Fallout games work.
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No. When Musk is hanging out in his secret lair with his secret robot butlers he turns to one genre: power metal.
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"Our butlers are on hand to collect shopping purchases from the store and deliver items directly to guest rooms," Mr. Novella said.
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Ralph Lauren crystal chandeliers, butlers, private elevators for each unit, and a chauffeured Bentley limousine service are all part of the package.
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For a growing number of luxury properties that have butlers as an amenity for their guests, the answer is a resounding yes.
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"My image of it is the bees chasing the guests back and forth while the butlers removed the arrangements," Ms. Dowling said.
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But you can bet that robots will help seniors age in place, even if they won't look like butlers or pastry chefs.
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All suites will have also have lounge seating, Grohe massaging showerheads, floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors, sitting areas and personal butlers.
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The FTSE 250 gave up 0.5%, with losses in all sectors, though pub operator Mitchells & Butlers outperformed after reporting a higher profit.
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The Rowans and Butlers will reward themselves with Irish coffees after a cold morning's work, covered from head to toe in orange.
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At Coleman, Bulger had "butlers," or younger prisoners who would bring him lunch and do other tasks for him, according to Rojas.
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Will we have digital butlers speak to our matches for us, weeding people out ... or Siri-like matchmakers talking us through our options?
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Mitchells & Butlers has been struggling with cost pressures and warned in May as wage inflation and increased food and drink costs drag margins.
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For pretty much as long as robots have existed, humans have wanted robot butlers: autonomous machines that do our bidding around the home.
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Women who need to be picked up at the airport are assigned female chauffeurs and are taken to their rooms by female butlers.
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Although they lived one floor apart in Clarence House until 1960, when Margaret married, they often communicated by letters delivered by their butlers.
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Intel showed off devices to track athletes' movement's and user's health, chips and sensors to power hoverboard butlers and to fly autonomous drones.
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Rising costs were also cited by pub firm Mitchells & Butlers as a reason for its profit dip, sending its shares down 7.2 percent.
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When African-Americans in Hollywood were not singing or dancing, they were often cast as maids, butlers, porters or other servile, peripheral figures.
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In contrast, pub and restaurant operator Mitchells & Butlers saw strong festive season sales as more diners opted for its pricier healthy menu options.
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Rival pub and restaurant groups including Mitchells & Butlers and Whitbread have warned that growth will slow as customers cut spending amid rising inflation.
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St. Regis has its own weeklong training program for butlers where they're taught how to assist guests with a variety of tasks including unpacking and packing their luggage, getting their clothes ironed (the butlers don't actually do the ironing themselves, but they facilitate the service) and serving them nonalcoholic beverages; they're also taught how to read guests' cues and anticipate their needs.
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Britain pub and restaurant groups including Mitchells & Butlers and Whitbread have warned that growth will slow as customers rein in spending amid rising inflation.
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I have a suspicion that our future might be filled with more machine gun-toting robots, like the one seen above, than robotic butlers.
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The other eight approached were Domino's Pizza Group, Brinker International, Darden Restaurants, Mitchells & Butlers, Restaurant Brands International, Restaurant Group, The Wendy's Company and Yum!
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Like other operators in the sector, Mitchells & Butlers has been battling increased costs, most notably from wage inflation, property costs and exchange rate movements.
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He said the goal was to integrate robots more deeply into the lives of average people, the Jetson's fantasy of robotic butlers and maids.
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He added that most national governments would employ someone to oversee events held for foreign dignitaries — though not all would officially be called butlers.
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"The great butlers are great by virtue of their ability to inhabit their professional role and inhabit it to the utmost," Stevens tells us.
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Ms. McCarthy, of Cornell University, said that even though the butlers at the St. Regis don't expect tips, those at other hotels likely do.
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For their part, cruise lines are happy to oblige, pampering and thrilling passengers with snow, butlers and race tracks — all on the high seas.
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And British pub and restaurant operator Mitchells & Butlers also saw strong festive season sales, as more diners opted for its pricier healthy menu options.
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Many student butlers here said they had watched and rewatched the show as an instruction video on the self-effacing unflappability of domestic service.
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"Thank you to all the White House ushers, butlers, maids, chefs, florists, gardeners, plumbers, engineers & curators for all you do every day," she tweeted.
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But "SB-129" goes much further than flying cars and robot butlers, introducing numerous SpongeBob clones and a two-headed Patrick, all without explanation.
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"We sign drivers, not butlers," was the response of Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene to suggestions that Raikkonen should have been told what to do.
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"He needs to give up other klansmen or klanswomen who (were) involved in putting that cross on the Butlers' property," Williams said, according to WJLA.
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But despite these efforts, robotic butlers that can do more than turn on the lights or provide weather updates feel as far away as ever.
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As the day went on, it got easier for the Butlers to communicate through gestures and glances and a bit of broken Spanish, they said.
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We're told 2 former butlers created a Facebook group that night to put the band back together -- employees, Playmates and Hef's children are all invited.
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Nicknamed "butlers," the pieces are discreet, functional and versatile enough to move from the foyer of a large house to a small bedroom or office.
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A small army of independent documentarians-turned-butlers scurry from tent to tipi carrying thermoses of coffee and bowls of powdered soup to tribal leaders.
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In a way, modern microprocessors act like attentive butlers, pouring that second glass of wine before you knew you were going to ask for it.
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They sat on dusky pink banquettes or in tiered, velveteen boxes and were tended to by a small army of suited butlers sporting red tailcoats.
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Mitchells & Butlers is the first large pub company to report its performance for December, setting the bar high for those to follow, Liberum analysts said.
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The remains of the Butlers, who were from Rumney, New Hampshire, were found buried in the sand of a Padre Island beach in late October.
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But the worry that information could be used to rob, extort or prosecute them has discouraged many rich people from taking butlers into their confidence.
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The Morgan Motor Company's cars look like they're made for the sort of gents who dismiss continental Europe as gauche and swap complaints about their butlers.
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Still, mid-cap pub operator Mitchells and Butlers jumped nearly 8% on course for its best day in almost two years, after robust half-year results.
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The villa comes with a private chef, housekeeping and butlers, according to the listing, and rates start at $1,750 per night for up to 18 guests.
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Along with robot butlers, billboard-sized TVs, and inadequately sanitized wearables being tried on by untold hordes, self-driving demonstrations have become a staple of CES.
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The stock surged nearly 39% and helped fellow mid-cap pub operators Mitchells & Butlers, Greene King, J D Wetherspoon and Marston's rise between 1.3% and 4.2%.
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Two people who answered the telephone at Mr. Butler's club on Thursday said the couple was not there, and the Butlers did not reply to emails.
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They've always made my eyes roll but have also piqued my curiosity about whether butlers actually have value or are nothing more than a marketing gimmick.
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In return, they may earn monthly wages of $323,800 or much higher as personal butlers, depending on experience and luck — more than for many service jobs.
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Reid oversaw the residence and events "at the 132-room mansion and its staff of over 90 plumbers, electricians, butlers, cooks and others," AP's Darlene Superville explained.
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Intel's ambitions were also clear at CES earlier this month, with the company showing off chips to power drones, sensors, and robot butlers — but no new laptops.
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Mitchells & Butlers, which has been focusing on its food offerings, said like-for-like food sales grew by 2.8 percent during the 7 weeks to Jan. 7.
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Family members say the the Butlers were avid travelers who were criss-crossing the country on a trip to Florida, where they planned to sell Christmas trees.
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The rooftop restaurant serves healthy fare alongside an infinity pool overlooking Copacabana Beach, while a sun deck, wet deck and water bench are attended by poolside butlers.
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The Butlers have an advantage, though, in that they can communicate seamlessly with an AI system that directs them where to go and how to optimize transportation.
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Pub group J D Wetherspoon surged 25%, alongside peers Marston's and Mitchells & Butlers, even as it cancelled its dividend and said profit would be below market expectations.
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"I only began to grasp this profession of butlers after watching 'Downton Abbey,'" said Xu Shitao, a 34-year-old Beijing native studying at the Chengdu academy.
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Ms. Rahmani said that in 2007 her company found positions in China for 20 butlers; by 2015 that number had grown to 375, including 125 with families.
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She photographed them with their staff—butlers, housekeepers, au pairs, nannies, drivers, and bodyguards—in their houses, a rare glimpse into the private lives of the wealthy.
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It's impossible to say for certain whether delivery robots will become a permanent fixture in our towns and cities, but they're certainly a better bet than robot butlers.
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A spokesman for the Nueces County medical examiner said Monday that an autopsy was completed in October, but he declined to comment on how the Butlers were killed.
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Now, the Butlers' family plans to have the couple cremated and brought back to New Hampshire for a celebration of life, according to Ms. Butler's son, Bradley Roth.
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Laird, Countrywide, Howden Joinery Group, Mitchells & Butlers and Aldermore, all saw negative broker activity on Tuesday, sending their shares 2.6 percent to 5 percent lower on the day.
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They've introduced all sorts of mobile features from concierge services to room keys, as well as ground-breaking hotel products like robotic butlers and in-room streaming services.
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For example, in Pullman's books its said that people in service (butlers, assistants, lower-level police officers) often have dogs as their dæmons due to their obedient natures.
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The proposed takeover comes at a time when Greene King's rivals JD Wetherspoon, Mitchells & Butlers and Marston's are struggling with a rise in minimum wage and higher costs.
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Resorts range from budget-friendly with all the necessities starting at $127, to worthy splurges that include premium liquor, massive entry-level suites, and personal butlers for $896.
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All the butlers, waiters, bartenders, kitchen and other low-level employees were black, as were the two armed guards who stepped outside the train at every sunny stop.
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CNBC's "Secret Lives of the Super Rich " highlights several of these over-the-top rooms, where on-call butlers, private elevators and in-suite theaters are the norm.
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Deputy Garza declined on Wednesday evening to provide more information about the circumstances of Mr. Williams's arrest in Mexico or how he could have been connected to the Butlers.
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In this I resembled Fernando, one in a series of butlers she brought from Spain to serve her meals, his grave, mustachioed face worthy of a painting by Velázquez.
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"Now, lines like Crystal, Ponant and Scenic have created ships that carry cruisers to adventure in a luxurious ambiance," offering personalized service by butlers, or private helicopters in port.
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"Our heartfelt condolences go out to the family and friends of the Butlers on the tragic loss of their loved ones," the sheriff's office said in a news release.
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Instead of run-of-the-mill butlers, there are red-liveried footmen, a detail that could read as tacky if not for the splendid surroundings and royal family legacy.
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Festive season has also provided some respite to the beaten-down sector, with Mitchells & Butlers also marking a solid update for the period encompassing Christmas and New Year holidays.
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However, earnings-driven gains helped pub operator Mitchells & Butlers, software company Micro Focus and thermal processing service provider Bodycote rise between 4%-5% and outperform the mid-cap index.
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Reporting by Can Sezer and Ezgi Erkoyun in Dilovasi and Robin Emmott in Brussels; writing by Ali Kucukgocmen and Tuvan Gumrukcu; editing by Daren Butlers, Alexandra Hudson and Jonathan Oatis
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Mitchells & Butlers said the use of antibiotics in livestock production is an important issue and the company is reviewing the matter across all species as part of its sourcing policy.
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Stonegate is the fourth largest managed pub company in the UK, established in 2010 to acquire 333 pubs from Mitchells & Butlers plc and expanding through a slew of acquisitions since.
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David says he and Michael did a comedy bit about Lenny and Squiggy going to vocational school to become butlers ... there was some dirty humor, and the crowd loved it.
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The Butlers were bored with the monotony of everyday life when they decided about a year and a half ago to crisscross the country in an R.V., Ms. Roth said.
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Two days later, when Ms. Roth tried to FaceTime the Butlers so they could see the excitement about the boots on their granddaughter's face, the couple could not be reached.
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Those who think the glamour days of cruise ships — when women dressed in elegant ball gowns for dinner and rooms boasted their own maids and butlers — are over, think again.
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There are no thoughtful, moderate conservatives, as there were when Chairman Peter Rodino held hearings on the impeachment of Richard Nixon—no Tom Railsbacks, M. Caldwell Butlers, or William Cohens.
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Like other British pub operators, Mitchells & Butlers has had to cope with higher costs, most notably from increased wage and property costs, following Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
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However, the company cancelled its dividend and warned of profit coming in below market expectations, joining the ranks of peers Marston's and Mitchells & Butlers which have warned on lower sales.
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"His idea was to bring the butlers found at the grand hotels of Europe to the United States," said Lisa Holladay, the global brand leader for St. Regis Hotels & Resorts.
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Most St. Regis properties offer butlers for all guest rooms, but in select locations, such as the ones in San Francisco and Majorca, they're only for those staying in suites.
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A string of Britain pub and restaurant groups including Mitchells & Butlers and Whitbread have also reported slowing demand - a warning signal for the country's economy which relies heavily consumer spending.
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Yet for now that means having a team of around 150 people, dubbed "magicians," who are essentially treated like virtual robot butlers by a clientele of mostly wealthy Bay Area types.
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At one of its newest hotels, the St. Regis in Hong Kong, guests can call butlers using China's most popular messaging app, WeChat, along with other platforms like Facebook's (FB) WhatsApp.
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As the evening begins, guests are driven through the back gates of Disneyland and around to New Orleans Square, where they are greeted by one of 21 Royal's professional butlers, Ellingson says.
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Residential bars can offer more personalized service, said one of the butlers, Ernesto Graniero, who has worked in the restaurant business for 25 years in Italy, France, England and the United States.
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Norwegian Cruise Line's The Haven features the "most luxurious" suites (a three-bedroom villa among them), private inner courtyard with pool, butlers, dedicated restaurants, and priority on-and off status in ports.
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From packing your suitcase when you leave, to laying out milk and cookies at night or running you a rose petal bath, butlers are on hand to help with your every need.
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Cellphones, in heavy use here, have a lot to answer for, too; Equity should investigate the way they have usurped the jobs of exposition-spouting maids and butlers in plays like this.
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A New York staffing agency that hires butlers, chefs, nannies, and personal assistants for wealthy families says it's been overwhelmed with calls from recently laid off hospitality workers looking for new jobs.
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Some well-known names such as bus operator National Express , Restaurant Group, pub operators Mitchells & Butlers and Marston's have now all lost more than two-thirds of their value this week alone.
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Even when surrounded by roaring rivers and starry skies, guests of Paws Up, a luxury camping site about 45 minutes outside of Missoula, Montana enjoy tents with indoor plumbing and personal butlers.
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Rogers was the first African American social secretary and working for the first African American first family had special significance for her, specifically seeing the reaction of the mostly African American butlers staff.
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Machines are created to improve the lives of human beings, and one of the attractions of advanced AI is the prospect of robot maids, butlers and chauffeurs (also known as self-driving cars).
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New mobile games and robot butlers are all well and good, but there are also many applications for the latest technology in poverty-stricken school districts and in the service of the disabled.
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Mid-cap pub operator Mitchells & Butlers surged 8% to a more than 3-1/2 year high after Canaccord Genuity upgraded the stock following recent buyouts of peers Greene King and Ei Group.
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We are still some years—five to ten years at least—from the Jetsons' age, where robots can express sophisticated emotions, understand all the nuances of human behavior, and be our personal butlers.
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Greene King's 774 million-pound Spirit deal, the biggest in its 217-year history, has helped it better compete with rivals such as Marston's Plc, Mitchells & Butlers Plc and J D Wetherspoon Plc.
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That's why when I saw fellow rich person Tim Gurner scold young people for buying avocado toast, I screamed "yes" so loud my butlers came into my morning den to check on me.
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The cruise line will own all aircraft — and keep the on-board butlers and pilots among their staff — but is using an external partner for aircraft operation, including maintenance, safety standards and pilot training.
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For some, it means hotels with butlers and fancy sheets and flying first class; for others, it's about hitting three-Michelin-starred restaurants and hiring the occasional private guide and car with a driver.
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The Butlers were named as defendants in the lawsuit, which was filed in District Court in Illinois on Tuesday by Laura Mullen, the mother of an athlete who trained at the club in 2012.
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They have a series of planning meetings where doormen, bellmen and butlers recount what each guest likes in order to make sure the hotel has that particular wine or bourbon, for example, in stock.
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The festive season, including Christmas and New Year, has provided a much-needed boost to the sector, with pub owners Mitchells & Butlers and J D Wetherspoon also posting impressive performance updates for the period.
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Casa Angelina in Italy's Amalfi Coast, for example, has butler service for those staying in its six suites, and Faena Miami Beach has butlers for guests who have booked multi-bedroom or specialty suites.
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This is especially true for the affluent millennial traveler, who seeks luxury hotels that offer personalized amenities and attention like cocktail butlers mixing drinks in your room or drink trolleys in the hallways, Batarags reported.
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"I'm Welsh originally but left there when I was 18-19 to come to London," Ms. Hutton said recently in the drawing room where the class-conscious Lady Violet frequently chastised butlers and visitors alike.
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And one thing to ask about those people, particularly the old, white men of the Academy is what kind of nonwhite people they nominate: how many presidents, doctors and citizens versus butlers, maids, and slaves?
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It often happens that a new method is found, progress is made quickly, and commentators (and often computer scientists too) make bold claims that this rate of improvement will continue until we've created robot butlers.
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Investigators used cellphone towers to approximate the Butlers' last known location, leading them to an area of the beach on Padre Island known as "the bowl" for the way the sand dunes form a depression.
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The idea of a stranger handling my personal belongings had me more than little uncomfortable, but Ms. McCarthy, the Cornell lecturer, had told me that butlers take pride in the task of unpacking and packing.
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To that end, Flyt currently works with more than 3,000 quick service and branded restaurants, including some of the U.K. and world's largest brands such as KFC, Tim Hortons, Mitchells and Butlers, Pizza Express and Nando's.
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He's so discreet you may not notice that he can still outrhyme the small fry—"fuck with me"-"cutlery"-"butlers be"-"hustlers be," say, all parsing as "The Story of OJ." But clever's not his program.
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Amazon now sells smart speakers that function as digital butlers, buttons that you can press to magically reorder household items, and wands you can wave over a product's barcode to add it to your shopping list.
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Grant Harrold, former royal butler to Prince Charles and a co-founder of The Royal School of Butlers, explained that the government's job description was broadly in line with the requirements of a 21st-century butler.
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Beating the heat: A team of pool butlers are available to massage your feet, clean your sunglasses, mist you with cold Evian spray to keep you cool and bring you complimentary seasonal Popsicles, sorbets and lemonade.
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Beating the heat: A team of pool butlers are available to massage your feet, clean your sunglasses, mist you with cold Evian spray to keep you cool and bring you complimentary seasonal Popsicles, sorbets and lemonade.
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SUMMARY OF CREDIT M&B is a whole business securitisation of a portfolio of 113,421 managed pubs and pub restaurants in Britain owned and operated by Mitchells & Butlers Plc (representing 80% of the M&B plc's pubs).
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The Sanchezes were relieved to have a place to stay with warm, welcoming hosts; the Butlers were thrilled to help a family in need -- especially when they saw the little girl wearing a pink, bedazzled birthday tiara.
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Granted, only a rarefied set of travelers can afford to stay at luxury hotels with butlers, but I can say that based on my experience, splurging on such a stay, at least once, may be worth it.
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"A decade ago, very few Chinese people stayed in five-star hotels," said Yang Kaojun, a property manager with the Summit Group, which employs teams of trained butlers who are at the beck and call of residents.
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Sure, we might be facing down a potential nuclear war, burning fossil fuels for fun, and still not have our own robot butlers, but the last few years have at least brought us something undeniably futuristic: levitating speakers.
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To show you the Lincoln Bedroom, and the bedrooms that were once ours, to introduce you to all the people—the florists, the grounds-keepers and the butlers—who dedicate themselves to making this historic house a home.
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Inspired in part by the "Downton Abbey" television drama, the country's once raw and raucous tycoons are aspiring to old-school decorum, fueling demand for the services of homegrown butlers trained in the ways of a British manor.
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In Times articles over the years, he describes feeling the heft of his career moves, in one instance saying that he turned down offers to play subservient characters, like butlers, because he rejected how Hollywood stereotyped his race.
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The influential Persian Gulf city has been home to the world's tallest building, a hotel that offers guests private butlers and 24-karat-gold iPads, and even a bakery that sold gold-laced cupcakes for roughly $1,000 each.
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Inside the hotel suite, a host of smart sensors embedded in coffee machines, mirrors, robo-butlers, and light bulbs analyze guest proximity and movement patterns in order to personalize the environmental conditions such as room lighting and temperature.
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When used with the Butlers' MARS scanner and its software, the chips help to produce highly accurate, striking, three-dimensional color renderings of the human body that distinguish materials like metal, bone, soft tissue, and fat with different tones.
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An escalator rises to the poker room, and high rollers can take a private elevator up to a "garden suite" on the third floor, where there will be two-story villas with interior pools, all with their own butlers.
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Unsure about the right amount to give, I asked our concierge staff for help but was told that there was no need to leave one because butlers receive a full salary and do not rely on gratuities for compensation.
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And Sara Vestin Rahmani, the founder of the Bespoke Bureau, a British company that finds domestic staff members for wealthy employers, said her company planned to open a school for butlers and domestic staff people in China this year.
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With private chefs, personal butlers and personal trainers available to them 24 hours a day, Williams, 36, and Ohanian, 34, could indulge in massages, beauty treatments and more at the spa, which is the only over-water spa in the Bahamas.
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"The amenities are impressive, but it's really the service experience that makes this extraordinary," McBurney tells Lemonis, referring to the hotel's staff of more than 65 butlers dedicated to covering the 22 villas on the property, attending to guests' every need.
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The reactions of their black next-door neighbors, the Butlers — parents Calvin (Cedric the Entertainer) and Tina (Tichina Arnold) and two adult sons Malcolm (Sheaun McKinney) and Marty (Marcel Spears) — range from less than enthusiastic (the parents) to amused (the sons).
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Though their main task is to manage financial assets, the biggest offices, some with hundreds of staff, undertake all sorts of other chores, from tax and legal work to acting as high-powered butlers who book jets and pamper pets.
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"To show you the Lincoln Bedroom, and the bedrooms that were once ours, to introduce you to all the people—the florists, the grounds-keepers and the butlers—who dedicate themselves to making this historic house a home," they wrote.
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Larger rival Greene King on Thursday flagged weakness in consumer spending and higher costs as it reported an 8 percent drop in first-half profit, while Mitchells and Butlers last week reported a fall in profit and scrapped its interim dividend.
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"We don't even have a front desk in the hotel lobby anymore," says Westbeld, adding that services such as checking in and out, and concierge inquiries about Singapore art, cultural and historical events are all handled directly by suite butlers.
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For years, Crystal Cruises was one of the few lines that didn't compete on that level, relying instead on two ultra-luxury mid-sized ships to deliver high levels of service with butlers and all-inclusive amenities like free caviar.
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For someone who grew up in Los Angeles, life behind palace walls - where butlers, footmen and members of the royal household, often dressed in smart traditional uniforms with scarlet waistcoats, discreetly go about their jobs - could scarcely be more different.
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It may seem somewhat anachronistic that butlers are still being hired, especially in an age when digital assistants such as Alexa and Siri are available to relieve the burden of household duties like buying groceries or switching off the lights.
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These problems will no doubt plague the expanding 'wealth work' economy, and the TaskRabbits, and Soothes, and DoorDashes, and the actual in-home Uber-for-butlers like HelloAlfred—and whatever app services that will send workers into strangers' homes after them.
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"The country now with the biggest trend in butlers is China," said Mr. Yeh, whose English accent would be at home on "Downton Abbey," the television series about a blue blood family in England, which was avidly watched in China.
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JD Wetherspoon, Domino's Pizza Group, Mitchells & Butlers and Restaurant Group, were among those to receive a March 15 letter from institutions including Aviva Investors AV.L asking them to set a timeline to stop the use of medically important antibiotics in their supply chains.
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Now, at the end of Inauguration Day, she was the first lady, moving into a home with "132 rooms, 35 bathrooms and 28 fireplaces spread out over six floors," and a staff of ushers, florists, housekeepers, butlers and attendants for her every need.
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But Downton imagines a kind of corruption that is corrected over time, and it is this attitude, much more than the butlers and the costumes and the elegant manor houses, that makes it feel like such an old-fashioned throwback of a show.
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Trump has lived most of these first months alone in his upstairs palace, inhabiting 20,000 square feet of the residence by himself most weeknights, catered to by a household staff that totals nearly 100, including a couple of valets and a handful of butlers.
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As for the Butlers, the family — and the dogs — had an uneventful trip and were able to use the jet again to fly back to San Antonio two years later when Butler accepted an offer to be NuStar's executive director of health, safety and environmental.
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Ex-staffers and interns for GOP Congressman Tom Garrett (R-VA) claim that instead of being able to fully focus on their duties of working on legislation and helping serve constituents, they were treated like glorified housekeepers and butlers, according to a report from Politico.
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Accused of "abus de faiblesse," or exploiting the old woman's frailty, the photographer, François-Marie Banier, was bombarded at a trial in early 2015 by the testimony of maids, butlers, doctors and others who called him the dominating manipulator of an overmedicated, disoriented woman.
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Location: London, EnglandIn a nutshell: A 121-room hotel near Hyde Park that dates back to the 19th century and features a refined-neutral aesthetic, around-the-clock access to personal butlers, afternoon tea, and a Michelin-starred restaurantStarting rate: $619 per nightSource: US News & World Report
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The Cherokee citizen and Stony Brook University assistant professor believes the moment has come for queer academia to seriously question the roots of their discipline, and ask how the field can expand to include more voices outside the Euro-American canon of Judith Butlers and Jack Halberstams.
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Investigators used cellphone towers to approximate the Butlers' last known location, leading them to an area of the beach on Padre Island known as "the bowl" for the way the sand dunes form a depression there, Chief Deputy Jaime Garza of the Kleberg County Sheriff's Office said.
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I had the privilege of visiting the White House several years ago with someone who had worked in the Bush 41 White House and it was astonishing to see the butlers, ushers and others race over to hear how the former president and first lady were doing.
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The unnamed driver is now a person of interest in the unsolved killings, says the Kleberg County Sheriff's Office "Our heartfelt condolences go out to the family and friends of the Butlers on the tragic loss of their loved ones," the sheriff's office said in a news release.
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While incoming presidents routinely replace a high number of senior policy staff members that were put in place by the outgoing president, more often, the chefs, groundskeepers, butlers, and other staff that keep the White House running on a day-to-day basis are spared from administrational purges.
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Other amenities on the island scheduled to roll out later this year include South Beach, the area for volleyball, beachside basketball, soccer, paddle boarding, glass-bottom kayaking and zorbing in an inflatable zorb ball, and Coco Beach Club, which is a more luxurious oasis with over water cabanas and private butlers.
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As well as Talos, Hephaestus created a quiver of drone-like arrows that could never miss, a mechanical dog that always caught its prey, a pair of fire-breathing bronze bulls and a fleet of self-driving cauldrons that acted as butlers to the gods, serving them nectar and ambrosia.
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Attendees to the show were greeted at the estate's entrance in proper royal fashion, with 80 broodingly handsome butlers decked out in full suits with tails: And if you're not entering a country estate to the tune of 60 trumpeters, now you know you've been doing it wrong this whole time.
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Read more: You can hire the Queen's former personal chef to cook for you and take you on a 'royal culinary tour' for $6,000Fans can join the chef and his team of butlers at an exclusive royal location — which changes yearly — to sample royal food and even take some cooking masterclass.
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Staying true to the intended role of a butler (the word is derived from an Old French term for "bottle bearer"), good knowledge of "fine wines" and food service is listed as a minimum requirement for the job, since the butlers must also take care of the government's wine cellar.
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"What they would like to say to their friends is, 'Look, I have a butler, an English-style butler in my home,' to show how wealthy they are," said Neal Yeh, a Chinese-born Briton living in Beijing, who for over a decade has helped train and find jobs for butlers.
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According to Reneta McCarthy, a senior lecturer at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, the concept of butlers dates at least as far back as the 18th century in Europe, when a butler was a male who was in charge of the dining and entertainment in wealthy households.
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And similarly to the TV show, "Downton Abbey" does its best to make you care about the problems of the Crawleys and their servants, even when the "problems" are deciding which gown to wear to dinner with the queen, or which one of the butlers will get to serve the king his soup.
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On the morning of the inauguration, before the departing president hosts his successor for a midmorning tea, members of the White House residence staff — butlers, maids, cooks, groundskeepers and others — typically gather in the East Room to say goodbye to the couple they have served, often for the better part of a decade.
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" Which we can add to a list of meta-lines that includes "I have a clarity of vision that allows me to resist a housemaid's trap of sentimentality" and "A day of racing cars and pigs: who could better that?" and "Do other butlers have to contend with the police arriving every 10 minutes?
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The third would focus on the classic job of the cabana boy, those blue-shirted beach butlers — three of the club's 15 cabana staffers are female — who hustle around the club setting up tables and tarps, ferrying food and drinks, carrying supplies from members' cars to their cabanas and from cabanas out to the beach.
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After handling the immediate business associated with the medical news — informing family, friends, work; tidying up some finances; putting out stacks of unread New York Times Book Reviews to recycle; and throwing a large "Limited Edition" holiday party, complete with butlers, I had some time to sit at my kitchen table and draw up the bucket list.
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One of the principal functions of the economy of the past few years has been to allow people on the lowest rungs of the 1 percent to live like their betters in the 0.1 percent — to provide drivers, cooks, personal assistants, cleaners, butlers, private jets and food delivery at the push of a button to anyone blessed with more wealth than time.
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She did, however, share some good kitchen tales she learned from her husband of both of the Johnson daughters' weddings, the difficulties surrounding a last minute Middle East peace accord dinner, her sadness over the fact that butlers had been replaced with plated dishes at formal White House dinners and her amazement that government cooking, historically a low-paying difficult gig, was now a coveted treat.
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Williams and her girlfriend stayed in a cabana with four butlers at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in the Bahamas and at the Rome Cavalieri Waldorf Astoria in Italy, where she reportedly complained to employees that the Mercedes-Benz the hotel provided to pick her up was "too small" and did not match her "vision of luxury," according to court documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
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The rating actions are as follows: GBP200m Class A1N floating-rate notes (outstanding as of Jul 2016 GBP153.9m) due 2030: affirmed at 'A+'; Outlook Stable GBP482m Class A2 fixed-rate notes (GBP20163m) due 2030: affirmed at 'A+'; Outlook Stable USD418.8m Class A3N floating-rate notes (USD322.3m) due 2030: affirmed at 'A+'; Outlook Stable GBP170m Class A4 floating-rate notes (GBP170m) due 2030: affirmed at 'A+'; Outlook Stable GBP083m Class AB floating-rate notes (GBP325m) due 2033: affirmed at 'A+'; Outlook Stable GBP350m Class B1 fixed-rate notes (GBP139m) due 2025: affirmed at 'BBB+'; Outlook Negative GBP350m Class B2 fixed-rate notes (GBP341.8m) due 20163: affirmed at 'BBB+'; Outlook Negative GBP200m Class C1 fixed-rate notes (GBP200m) due 2032: affirmed at 'BBB'; Outlook Negative GBP50m Class C2 floating-rate notes (GBP50m) due 2034: affirmed at 'BBB'; Outlook Negative GBP110m Class D013 floating-rate notes (GBP110m) due 2036: affirmed at 'BBB-'; Outlook Negative Mitchells & Butlers Finance Plc interest rate swap affirmed at 'A+'; Outlook Stable Mitchells & Butlers Finance Plc cross currency swap affirmed at 'A+'; Outlook Stable The swap ratings address the issuer's ability to make payments under the swap agreements as per the transaction documentation, excluding swap termination payments due to default or non-performance of the counterparty.
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