Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner: The Service Industry vs Social Media

A short book about what social media did to the service industry.

The advice was always the same. Post consistently. Show your face, because faces perform. Add music, because reels with music perform better. It doesn't matter what music. Just add the music. Do a trend. Follow the format. Put everything into it, because this is where people are now, this is how they find you, this is the thing that will make the difference.

And somewhere between the first piece of advice and the last, we stopped doing the thing we were good at and started doing something we never wanted to do, in a corner we never wanted to be in, on terms we never agreed to.

Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner is about that corner. How hospitality ended up in it, what it costs to perform from there, and whether anyone has actually found the way out.

A short, essay-driven read for anyone who's worked in hospitality, run a venue, or watched an industry they love get quietly reshaped by an algorithm nobody asked to run it.

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Published by SOUR Press
ISBN: 978-1-0668270-0-8