To endear a hotel to the oil and gas crowd, give them a place to eat and sleep at all hours of the day, a place to wash their boots, a warm place to smoke in the winter and a cold beer once in a while.
So goes the formula developed by Tejas Gosai, president of the Washington, Pa.-based business Shale Hotel Inc. The company is managing two hotels geared toward oil and gas workers, building two others and preparing to turn the Monroeville Holiday Inn into an industry destination for workers summoned here by the Marcellus Shale, the natural gas deposit underlying much of Pennsylvania.
Gosai represents a group of four doctors, among them his father, who bought the 187-room Monroeville hotel in June. His goal is to replicate there what he has helped to do in Bentleyville - attract at least half of the guests from oil and gas fields.
The Gosais have been in the hotel business for a dozen years. Kam Gosai, a practicing physician in Washington County, co-owns the Holiday Inn Express and the Best Western Garden Inn in Bentleyville.
These hotels weren't built for oil and gas workers. They've slowly shifted in that direction over the past several years.
Consider the food, which, seemingly, never stops.
Breakfast begins at 3 a.m. and guests rushing out the door to a job are given bags so they can toss in a breakfast burrito and be on their way. The early meal is served until 10:30 a.m.
At 1 p.m., soup and popcorn start in the lobby. Two hours later, another breakfast shift begins for those just waking up.
In the evenings, there are happy hours and wine, beer and cheese receptions. On occasion, there's barbecue from Hog Father, an industry favorite.
Outside the hotels, Tejas Gosai has plopped a few heating lamps and winterized chairs to accommodate the smokers.
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