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title: "Bill Marriott: Now That is What I Call a CEO blog"
date: 2007-02-19T13:49:32Z
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> [There’s nothing I love more than a great Marriott cheeseburger and French fries](http://www.blogs.marriott.com/default.asp?item=474238). Boy, I just love French fries. I started cooking French fries back in 1950 when I worked in the Hot Shoppes in Salt Lake City. And all my boys joined the company when they were 15 and 16 and worked first cooking French fries in the Hot Shoppes. So I love French fries.
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> We serve over 6 million pounds of French fries every year and people love them. Unfortunately, we’ve all learned that the oil we use to cook French fries with is a source of trans-fat, and today that’s not good. We know it’s been linked to obesity and heart disease.

 Talk about getting the tone right straight out of the gate. I literally have no insight or knowledge at all about whether or not Bill writes his own blogs, but this one has the ring of truth-its just too motherhood and apple pie to be otherwise. Bill loves fries, he has made a lot of them, and now is banning trans-fats in Marriott fries. cool. Why do I like Marriotts? They were the first hotel, in my experience, that made broadband as easy to use as in-house laundry services (courtesy of [STSN](http://www.stsn.com/)).