Fat Balls In Veep, Gary Walsh says he graduated with a degree in Hotel Management from Cornell University. Some notable alumni of the school include the founders of Alamo Rent-A-Car; Arby's; Burger King; Dunkin' Donuts; Duty Free Shoppers Group ; Shake Shack ; HVS Global Hospitality Services; Lyft and PriceWaterhouseCoopers Global Hospitality Consulting. (For more, List of Cornell University alumni) Statler Hotel The full-service Statler Hotel has 153 guest rooms at the center of Cornell's campus. The hotel also serves as a primary teaching tool for the Nolan School of Hotel Administration. Each year more than 200 SHA students work alongside professionals in a range of hotel and restaurant operations. In 2011, 2012, and 2013, the Statler Hotel was awarded a 4-diamond rating by AAA. In January, 2020, hotel executive Arthur Keith was named its new General Manager. The Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship The Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship Center for Hospitality Research The Cornell Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) is a service of the Cornell University Nolan School of Hotel Administration for the hospitality industry. With the support of industry partners the center promotes, supports, and distributes hospitality research. Three series of center publications are posted at no charge on its site chr.cornell.edu. They are Cornell Hospitality Reports, Cornell Hospitality Tools, and Industry Perspectives. In addition, the center is the publisher of the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, now entering its sixth decade of publication, which is available by subscription only. The center's research agenda promotes studies that have direct implications for improving hospitality operations, but must be based on solid theoretical and procedural principles. The free reports and tools are more practitioner oriented, while the award-winning Quarterly includes more of the theory and educational content appropriate for students and academics. The center also produces a series of industry roundtables and participates in high level industry conferences to share research findings. Publications Cornell Hospitality Reports shares the knowledge created by center fellows and other researchers. Cornell Hospitality Tools - web-based interactive tools for the hospitality industry. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly - a leading academic journal for the hospitality industry. Industry Perspective: A White Paper Series from Cornell - provide insight from hospitality industry leaders on the issues that matter most to senior executives and hospitality practitioners. Hospitality Roundtable Proceedings - offer a thorough report on roundtable's deliberations. Best Practices - identified