The service is a New York City exclusive for the time being but San Francisco is slated to get the super-simple catering nod sometime in the next three months, and then expand to the country's top 15 metro markets within a year.
Riordan Roett, a corporate consultant and director of the Western Hemisphere program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, said the reason for the contradictions in United States economic policy was "as simple as catering to special interests," with little regard to the effect such zigzags have on the nation's trading partners.
Also in Provesende is the charming, simple, self-catering Quinta da Costa (doubles from €65, +351 917 985 956).
That doesn't mean that 95% of my music is inane or trivial … it's music catering to simple needs".
When asked whether he would rather his new disc had been of his concert hall works, instead of music catering to "simple needs", he laughs and excuses himself from the room.
The decor is simple and each self-catering house sleeps up to four.
The former granaries have been converted into simple but smart self-catering cabins.
Near the sleepy town of Wellington, Diemersfontein's sprawling estate offers 14 simple rooms, or self-catering cottages with their own veranda, fireplace and kitchenette.
Accommodation tends to consist of simple pensions and self-catering studios, places such as Michalis Little Houses on Koufonissi (from €45 for a studio for two), a delightful collection of six whitewashed houses.
Catering was equally simple: "buckets of spaghetti – linguine on the second day for a change – with a great sauce made by [wife] Pamela".
"We have always been laser-focused on our 'multi-local' approach, which goes beyond simple translation and focuses on catering to, and understanding, the business and cultural needs of each market," said Dan Serfaty, CEO, Viadeo.
