Meetings, events, and plenty of bread: Here’s how Ellen Yin gets things done.
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If you were to peek at Ellen Yin’s calendar, it might give you a headache. The High Street Hospitality Group founder’s schedule is packed with meetings, business dinners, and networking events that often extend late into the evening. The James Beard Award-winning restaurateur oversees a number of Philadelphia’s top culinary establishments including Fork, the Michelin-recommended High Street, a.kitchen+bar (plus, a second location in Washington, D.C.), and the new Bread Room, which opened in October. And when she’s not running between those establishments, she’s helping other women in the city’s hospitality industry find success through her work as a co-chair of the Sisterly Love Collective.
Curious to know how one of Philly’s busiest women in the restaurant business gets things done, I asked her to walk me through a day in her life. Spoiler: It involves a lot of bread…