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Report: Independent hoteliers see GDS bookings rise 34.5%

Hotel Business

vs. a decade ago (2014). year-on-year, 63% vs. 2019 pre-pandemic levels and up +4,609% vs. 2014. “Direct booking on a property’s own website accounts for around a third of all bookings, with OTAs about half that. in the past year and up 4.2% Channel Connect reservations increased 39.5%

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Automation Proves To Be a Necessity for Restaurants During COVID

Modern Restaurant Management

Besides that, 20 percent of Americans don’t even have bank accounts or have accounts but choose to use financial services outside the banking system, making cash their only option, according to the FDIC. The approach was used during the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak, as well as in the SARS outbreak in 2003.

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Uber Acquires Postmates, Merging Two of the Biggest Delivery Companies

EATER

Though the brand also scored early exclusive delivery accounts with Starbucks and Chipotle, it also garnered early ( if now ubiquitous ) criticism for listing restaurants on its app without their permission. It was also the smallest of the major players at the time of today’s merger, with 8 percent of the market share.

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NYPD Debunks Police Union Claims That Shake Shack Workers Intentionally Poisoned Cops

EATER

Throughout the night, Shake Shack was bombarded by tweets accusing the chain of attempted murder and calls to #BoycottShakeShack , messages that were amplified by right-leaning accounts with large followings.

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Chef Behind Parisian New-Wave Hit Dersou Dies

EATER

In 2014 he opened his first restaurant, Dersou; it was followed in 2019 by Cheval d’Or. Following this announcement, influential women in the food industry and Instagram accounts dedicated to championing women in food issued statements of support for the alleged victim(s).

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Dosa Kitchen Wants To Make Dosa a Household Name

EATER

In 2014, Scheintaub told Eater that dosa was becoming a craze, perhaps in the same way chai or turmeric have inched their way into Americans’ culinary vocabulary, but a decade later the Indian diaspora is still explaining.

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How Mattenga’s Pizzeria Simplifies Labor Management—and Gets Back to Family Life

7 Shifts

And so we sold our house in New Mexico and we bought a failing Pizzeria in 2014. 2 hours per week When Mattenga’s bought the restaurant in 2014, they had been using spreadsheets to keep track of their weekly schedules. Making fresh pasta, making pizza for people from scratch.