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Is It Okay to Ask Your Dinner Party Guests to Venmo You?

EATER

Dinner parties became normal, and hosting a way to both gather your friends and show off your domestic skills. In this moment of ever-increasing food prices, it’s starting to feel a bit like the bad old days. I get that cooking a whole dinner for a bunch of people can be expensive.

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Choice Q3 domestic RevPAR increases 15.2%

Hotel Business

30, reported domestic RevPAR growth accelerated quarter-over-quarter, increasing by 15.2% Domestic RevPAR growth has surpassed 2019 levels for 16 consecutive months through Sept. 11, for a purchase price of $674 million. The company’s total domestic pipeline as of Sept. Choice Hotels International Inc. ,

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

EATER

I pulled the car around and watched a massive garage door open to reveal my prize: a stack of mango boxes on a dolly cart, this batch with a going price of about $8 per fruit. As such, the vast majority of the Pakistani American diaspora are unable to procure their homeland’s national fruit easily. The next day, my family gorged.

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How to Start a Hotel Business

Xotels Hotel Revenue Management

At the core of any successful pre-opening phase are well thought through elements of product pricing and positioning such as: Room type strategy (e.g. Competitive positioning (how do you competitively price yourself in the market, evaluating your value-add and weighing it against your competitors). Distribution (e.g.

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How Ice Cream Became the Ultimate American Comfort Food

EATER

Flavored ices and frozen desserts have been coveted for thousands of years, across many cultures, by people who have gone to great lengths to procure them. He basically became czar of the US food supply, exerting totalitarian control over prices, distribution, and purchasing. Buy it on Bookshop or Amazon.

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Green Book Extra: Purchasing execs on tariffs

Hotel Business

For this year’s Green Book purchasing report, Hotel Business spoke with Jocelyn Lurie , VP, procurement, Throughline by IIG ; Lori Patten , principal, Patten Purchasing LLC ; Nicole Schmidt , founder/CEO, Source ; and Eleanor Waddell , VP, strategic growth and business development, Avendra International.

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