These relaxed meetings are essential in facilitating mutual learning on behalf of the client and the service provider. For example, a leading law firm expressed dissatisfaction with the provision of 24 h rolling coffee breaks, requesting that the Hotel ‘make it more funky’. Through engaging the client as an operant resource, Hotel E was able to establish that ‘funky’ meant: (i) delivering ‘the Starbucks’ experience’ in the hotel context, (ii) flexibility in the timing and delivery of the service, and (iii) an element of fun. The improvement to the service was subsequently achieved through the creation of a ‘sweet-shop’, which was personalised for different clients, and via the introduction of technology that could deliver various styles of coffee on demand. The personalisation of hotel services at Hotel E can be relatively large scale, such as the overhaul of conference hospitality, but is more often conducted at a micro-scale with reference to individual guest histories. The managing director acknowledged that there are limits to the involvement of the client in the innovation process, because it would be difficult to maintain elements of surprise that are deemed essential to maintaining customer satisfaction; ‘we call them critical non-essentials, so it’s those silly little touches that you go away and say “oh wow you’ll never guess what”’.