Sur La Table

Sur La Table, Inc. is a privately held retail company based in Seattle, Washington, that sells kitchenware products, including cookware, cutlery, cooks' tools, small electrics, tabletop and linens, bakeware, glassware and bar, housewares, food, and outdoor. As of October 2018, Sur La Table sold products in 184 stores in 32 states across the country including the District of Columbia, as well as through their website and catalogs. Cooking classes are available in over 80 stores.[1] Sur La Table has a blog, A Sharp Knife & Salt, that focuses on food, chefs, restaurants and products.[2] Many of the company's stores offer culinary classes[3] and Sur La Table plans to include a kitchen into every new store that they open.[4] The company's corporate headquarters is located in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood.

Sur La Table
Private
IndustryRetail
Founded1972
HeadquartersSeattle, Washington, USA
Number of locations
130
ProductsCookware, bakeware, cutlery, small electrics, cooks tools and housewares.
OwnerInvestcorp
Websitesurlatable.com

In French, sur la table means on the table. French pronunciation: ​[syʁ la tabl][5]

History
Sur La Table's Pike Place location in Seattle, Washington.
Store in Manhattan

Shirley Collins founded Sur La Table in 1972, opening a single retail location in Seattle's Pike Place Market. In 1995, Collins sold the company.

In 2005, Kathy Tierney took over as the chief executive officer and advocated an expansion policy of opening new stores in "lifestyle centers", malls, and on city streets, "with a mix of upscale national brands and creative local merchants, anchored by an upscale or organic-themed grocery store that encourages frequent trips", Sur la Table became the second-largest specialty cookware retailer in the United States behind Williams Sonoma.[6]

In January 2011, Sur la Table launched a website and gift registry program.[7]

In September 2011, Sur La Table was purchased by Bahrain-based Investcorp.[8]

On February 18, 2020, it was reported that Sur la Table and Discovery, Inc., will team up together to produce a "first-of-its-kind cooking ecosystem" which will allow students to participate with the in-store cooking class via online streaming.[3] In June 2020, The company announced that it would indefinitely lay off 27 workers, or about a quarter of the staff at its corporate headquarters in Georgetown. The separations begin on July 1 and do not include severance packages.[9]

References
  1. Bandaranayake, Nadee (8 October 2018). "Sur La Table: From cooking class to loyal customer". NRF. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  2. "A Sharp Knife & Salt". Retrieved 19 June 2015.
  3. "Sur La Table And Discovery's Food Network Kitchen Join Forces On Content And Marketing Partnership". Discovery Channel. 18 February 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  4. Berman, Nat (2019). "20 Things You Didn't Know about Sur la Table - 6. Most of Sur La Table retail stores are equipped with kitchens". Moneyinc.com. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  5. Oxford French Minidictionary. Oxford University Press. 2002. p. 279. ISBN 0-19-860467-X.
  6. Tice, Carol (24 June 2005). "A wiser Sur La Table picks its outlets selectively". Puget Sound Business Journal.
  7. "Sur La Table Dishes Up New Location at Hearst Tower in New York Media Epicenter". Hearst. 15 August 2011. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  8. Martinez, Amy (21 September 2011). "Sale of Sur La Table may be recipe for growth". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  9. "Sur La Table to lay off a fifth of its corporate staff and possibly close five stores". The Seattle Times. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
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