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David Chang’s Memoir Fails to Account for the Trauma He Caused Me

EATER

But as an employee on the receiving end of that rage, the book fails to account for trauma he caused me. Chang writes that he doesn’t remember the specific incident, but concedes that, apart from a few details, the account is “accurate and could have been written about almost any night I was working service.”.

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The extended-stay pipeline is heating up

Hotel Business

Since 2017, nine new extended-stay brands have launched. Construction Pipeline are extended-stay projects, accounting for 35% of projects and 30% of the rooms in the total U.S. Extended-stay projects under construction, at the end of Q3 ’22, accounted for 264 projects/28,286 rooms, up slightly YOY.

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Latin America’s Hotel Construction Pipeline Surges in Q3 2023 with New Projects and Construction Start Initiatives

Hospitality Net

At the Q3 close, there were 93 new project announcements (NPAs), accounting for 415,416 rooms, marking the largest number of new project and room announcements in Latin America since Q2 2017. The region’s pipeline project counts are up slightly, at 6% year-over-year (YOY) by projects and 5% YOY by rooms.

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142 Bakers Delight workers allegedly underpaid $1.25 million

Hospitality Magazine

Workers employed at Hobart outlets in Kingston, Lindisfarne, and Eastlands, are said to have been underpaid between July 2017 and October 2020. We will use all laws and powers at our disposal to ensure franchisors are held to account when they fail to address non-compliance in their networks,” says Acting Fair Work Ombudsman Kristen Hannah.

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LE: Latin America’s pipeline surges in Q3

Hotel Business

At the Q3 close, there were 93 new project announcements (NPAs), accounting for 415,416 rooms, marking the largest number of new project and room announcements in Latin America since Q2 2017. These five countries combined account for 68% of all the projects and rooms in Latin America’s construction pipeline.

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CBRE: Loyalty programs should soften economic downturn impact

Hotel Business

Over the past 10 years, room nights, loyalty members, loyalty program liabilities and redemption revenues may have been influenced by accounting changes, brand mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, rebranding and dynamic point pricing. This may not be true of top-tier members.

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ESOPs and Sustainable Restaurant Culture

Modern Restaurant Management

The idea had been kicked around almost five years prior to the ESOP transaction, in 2017. Essentially an ESOP is a big picture plan that can double as an employee's retirement account. To learn more about the pros and cons of putting an ESOP into place, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Cucci.