o'regan understood bringing high standards to shannan's food services wasn't just going to be about serving nice meals. We were being written off as the vanishing irish. If we're irish a we could do things as well ar better tan anywhere else. So from the moment o'regan took over the restaurant at shannon from the british, he started adding all these little touches, he improved the decorps. He dressed the witstaff in nice suits. And one day, when he saw the head chef carrying out an unadorned plate of food, he chided him for its lack of eye apeal. And i said, chef, there's no ape
On the west coast of Ireland, on the banks of an estuary dividing county Limerick from county Clare, lies a small town called Shannon. But Shannon is not a quaint fishing village or farming community. Its industry is its airport. And Shannon Airport is big. It handles up to 1.7 million passengers and 20,000 flights a year, most of them from other countries. It looks like a cosmopolitan international airport, but it has a unique claim to fame: the world's first airport duty-free store.
Today, the store has what you would expect -- designer perfumes, jewelry and various fine foods, with a lot of local (in this case Irish) products in particular. But like the area around the airport, the shop started out small, with a local boy from the area who would go on to change the world of tax-free commerce in and beyond Shannon.
Call of Duty: Free