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Hu. Hotel sold

Hotel Business

Originally constructed as a bank building in 1905, the property was converted into a 110-room luxury boutique hotel in 2002 and underwent significant renovation and rebranding around 2018-2019. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1982, the hotel retains its traditional ornate and classical revival exterior.

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Hyatt to launch Homes & Hideaways by World of Hyatt

Hotel Business

Among the services provided will be owner relations and services, accounting and financial services, guest/concierge services, front desk and amenity management, maintenance and capital project oversight, marketing, distribution and pricing, housekeeping and procurement.

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Virtual Acceleration, Raising the Bar and Insult Monitor

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM News Bites features a double dose from US Foods, SpotOn Transact, DoorDash Kitchens, Virtual Restaurant Consulting, Tripleseat and Gather, wagamama, Toast, The Gluten Intolerance Group, Instawork and StaffMate Online, Procurant and Yellofin, Sift, 7shifts, ParTech, Revel Systems and Como, Kabbage, Bluecrew and Cuboh.

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Premier adds real estate development associate

Hotel Business

Premier, an end-to-end architecture, design, procurement and project management and development firm, has added Cole Travers as a real estate development associate. as an intern in 2017 and following graduation from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business in 2018, he landed a full-time job at the company as a financial analyst.

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Magnuson Independent Collection reports 10x industry average RevPAR

Hotel Business

“And we do this without tying them to unethical and exploitative practices of Property Improvement Plans (PIPs) or mandatory procurement contracts, saving them thousands of dollars every year. Since its inception in 2003, Magnuson Hotels has been a Fair Franchising brand and that is truly the defining factor for our shared success.”

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Why Are the World’s Greatest Mangoes Almost Impossible to Buy in the U.S.?

EATER

It was 2018, and that order of mangoes was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. As such, the vast majority of the Pakistani American diaspora are unable to procure their homeland’s national fruit easily. On that night in 2018, I knew I had stumbled on something unique. So, decadence it was. pound boxes.

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How Walmart Got Its Hands on the Coolest Pantry Brands

EATER

When Walmart first reached out to Jing Gao, the founder of Fly By Jing , several years ago, she wasn’t quite ready for her self-described “tiny company,” which got its start on Kickstarter in 2018, to get involved with such a large retailer. Going into a retailer like Walmart isn’t a decision any company can make lightly.

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