HOSPITALITY & JUDGEMENT
The foundations
of thoughtful hospitality.
Organisation and judgement. Two documented historical perspectives provide the intellectual frame of reference for Wayford Rating.
“From ordered hospitality to considered judgement.”
THE WAYFORD PERSPECTIVELa Maison réglée
The organisation of hospitality.
A work on managing a large household, the duties of its staff and the organisation of services.
Explore the source HISTORICAL SOURCE · 1803Almanach des gourmands
The culture of considered judgement.
Gastronomic guidance published from 1803: observation, context and judgement made accessible to readers.
Explore the sourceSOURCE · INTERPRETATION · METHOD
Historical context.
A responsibility for today.
Hospitality has long depended on order, service and judgement. Wayford Rating places its modern benchmarking practice within two documented traditions: Nicolas Audiger’s La Maison réglée (1692), concerned with the organisation of a great household, and Grimod de La Reynière’s Almanach des gourmands (from 1803), a landmark in published gastronomic guidance and criticism. The historical sources frame the subject; Wayford Rating’s present methodology remains its own.
1692 and 1803 are the dates of the historical sources. They are not founding dates of Wayford Rating. Our present-day assessment methodology is independently developed.
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