September, 2022

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Best Ways to Promote Your Hotel

Hotelogix

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Hotel Booking Engine Philippines

Soft Inn

A hotel booking engine system is used widely by hotels regardless of the size of the businesses ranging from small boutique hotels to medium-size, grouping hotels, and luxury types. A good online booking engine system is important to ensure it serves hotel business needs and purposes, at the same time making it convenient for guests to do the reservation online.

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Using Live Video to Showcase Your Restaurant (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

In today’s world of continuous distraction, it’s important to be able to find strategies for your restaurant that stand out from the noise. Many restaurants have spent a great deal of thoughtfulness and money on carefully preparing their aesthetic both on location and online, but what is the next frontier? Given that we are in a picture perfect Instagram age, many restaurant connoisseurs and foodies crave a deeper experience – enter the world of live video.

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20 Restaurant Skills You'll Quickly Learn on the Job (Updated)

7 Shifts

Working in a restaurant is something more than 11 million people in the United States do. It's one of the most hands-on jobs you can have - and equips employees with an abundance of restaurant skills as a result. Like any job, a restaurant job teaches skills and processes you can put on your resume in addition to soft skills that make you both a better worker and a more well-rounded person.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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The Great Food Instagram Vibe Shift

EATER

The food blogger aesthetic has given way to something more realistic and DIY: Laissez-faire Instagram food is here For a long time, food looked one way on Instagram. It was the look of crisp, pristinely lit plates seen from above, with sprigs of herbs strewn to appear haphazard, despite the tedious work of styling tweezers; stacks of pancakes and cookies shot at exactly the correct angle to show a blur of eggs, old-timey glass bottles of milk, and an “accidental” dusting of flour in the backgrou

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How Hoteliers Can Ensure Safe and Secure Payments for Guests

Hotelogix

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4 Key Pillars Of A Guest-Centric Cloud PMS

InnQuest

Modern-day hotel tech is constantly being upgraded to cater to evolving guest preferences. However, the rising complexity of hotel management tech may reach a point where it restricts your hospitality staff from offering first-class guest service. The aim, amidst this digitized shift, is to find the right balance that enables hoteliers to deliver an unparalleled experience to their guests.

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More Restaurants Are Turning to Voice Tech: Here Are Three Reasons Why

Modern Restaurant Management

Technology has been a great help during these testing times and, in particular, more and more restaurateurs have been turning to conversational voice AI ordering systems to help them meet —and increase— their orders with the resources they have available. When it’s designed for a specific use case (like restaurants), voice technology is actually pretty straightforward to deploy.

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What Does 86 Mean? Definition, History and More

7 Shifts

If you're standing in line waiting to order the special of the night, the seasonal Panzanella Salad, you don't want to hear “86 the special”. At some point when you were dining in a restaurant, you may have heard the BOH staff shout “86” and the name of a menu item to the waiters. Or, if you've worked in a restaurant as a chef, line cook, or as part of the FOH (front-of-house), you may have used this hospitality term yourself.

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Food & Beverage Industry Report 2024

Driven by a diverse and exciting ecosystem of passionate, ambitious, and often young entrepreneurs, the Food & Beverage (F&B) sector is a highly competitive environment full of immense challenges and exciting opportunities. Expert Market’s 2024 industry report, sponsored by Toast, is informed by a survey of 522 U.S. food and beverage professionals, from restaurant owners to food service managers, providing insights into the real-time challenges and opportunities within the industry.

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We’re Always Falling for Fake Food Stunts

EATER

A person making “NyQuil chicken” | Screenshot via Know Your TikTok/YouTube. NyQuil chicken proves one of our worst collective online tendencies Last week, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning : Don’t cook your chicken in NyQuil. This needed to be said, according to the FDA, because of a “recent social media video challenge,” presumably linked to TikTok.

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Boutique is best for ethical travel

Boutique Hotel News

Giles Fuchs, owner of Burgh Island Hotel, highlights why boutique hotels are in a favourable position to welcome travellers that seek ethical experiences. Tourists increasingly want to travel ethically, from finding alternatives to flying, to organising their time around morally sound activities. But for hospitality businesses, it isn’t always easy to measure the ethics of your offering.

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Technology Tools that Help Hotel Management

Hotelogix

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How Mews is helping the unemployed into hospitality | Mews CSR

MEWS

At Mews, we have three CSR (corporate social responsibility) goals. One of them is helping the homeless and displaced , and we’ve already written about tackling climate action. Today, we’re talking about furthering knowledge and education.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Tips to Navigate a Perfect Storm That’s Threatening Our Food Supply

Modern Restaurant Management

We were ill-prepared for the COVID pandemic that devastated the food industry with supply chain disruptions, product and labor shortages, and soaring inflation. We simply didn’t see it coming, and we weren’t ready for the ongoing ramifications of this crisis. The biggest learning from COVID is that food businesses must be prepared for any crisis – and ensure their suppliers all along the supply chain are also prepared and resilient.

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4 Reasons Why Your Hotels Should Use Self-Check-in Kiosk

Soft Inn

The self-check-in kiosk is not a new concept, yet becoming a popular trend before 2021. Now it started to be embraced by hotel industries worldwide after the hit of the Covid-19 pandemic. Besides that, hotel guests are now becoming more aware of contactless service. This is proven based on the research run by students in UTEM, Malaysia, 93.7% of customers preferred a contactless check-in after the Covid-19 pandemic for their safety and convenience.

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How Netflix’s Hit Show ‘Mo’ Uses Houston’s Food Scene to Establish Identity

EATER

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Prioritise Guest Experience to Keep Them Coming Back for More

InnQuest

It’s one thing to meet customer expectations, and quite another to exceed them. Guest satisfaction is the ultimate indicator of success for hotels, restaurants, and other hospitality organisations since it directly impacts brand reputation, customer loyalty, and revenue. To get the best reviews and returning customers, go above and beyond to provide them with a welcoming atmosphere, comfort, and convenience.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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5 Questions travellers must ask before choosing their hotel

Hotelogix

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Point of sale (POS) for inventory management

MEWS

POS inventory management is the process of using a point of sale system to successfully manage supply. In the case of hotels, you can use the POS to help you keep track of stock levels on cleaning and office supplies, any supplies relating to maintenance, food and beverage, and any other supply-chain-related matter that ensures the proper running of your hotel, along with ancillary services.

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Five Ways Restaurant Technology Makes or Breaks Business

Modern Restaurant Management

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the voluntary quit rate is 25 percent higher than pre-pandemic levels. With today’s labor shortage and record-high resignations, restaurants cannot afford to lose workers, and technology should not be a bottleneck for workers to perform their job. To maintain a healthy business and working environment, restaurant technology must enable ease and efficiency among employees and service staff as much as guests.

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How User Friendly Is Your Online Menu?

Restaurant Engine

You want a user friendly online menu so anyone can use it. Have you ever placed an order yourself on your restaurant’s website? Have you ever heard complaints about your online menu ? Most importantly, we pose the question, “How user friendly is your online menu?”. As more and more websites look toward website accessibility, one place that often gets overlooked is the online ordering system.

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Business Automation in Hospitality: A New World

Dive into the transformative potential of business automation within the hospitality sector. This comprehensive overview showcases how innovative technologies can streamline operations, reduce costs, and elevate guest satisfaction. Discover the advantages of integrating systems like automated check-ins, CRM, and energy management to not only save on expenses but also to provide a seamless and personalized guest experience.

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The 10 Best Cookbooks of Fall 2022

EATER

Don Caminos /Eater. New books by Deb Perelman, Molly Yeh, and Illyanna Maisonet provide kitchen inspiration this fall Once again, fall is here, and no, we don’t know how that happened either. What we do know is that along with colder temperatures (we assume? but who can really say anymore?) and midterm elections, the season augurs a new and very welcome crop of cookbooks.

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Automation in the Hotel and Motel World

InnQuest

As automation becomes more and more prevalent in society, it’s no surprise that it’s making its way into the hospitality industry. In today’s fast-paced digital world, hotel and motel operators must be able to keep pace with the needs of guests on an individual basis. With the use of automated hotel management system , you can streamline your processes, improve operational efficiency, enhance personalisation, improve guest satisfaction, and improve employee satisfaction.

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Simple Ways to Attract Direct Bookings

Hotelogix

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What is POS transaction in the hospitality industry?

MEWS

You may be wondering: what is a POS transaction and how does it work in the hospitality industry? POS stands for point of sale and it’s used to charge guests throughout their stay at your hotel. Not only does it improve the guest experience by allowing payments to be made electronically from anywhere on the hotel premises, but it also helps hoteliers keep better track of sales in order to optimize and improve the customer journey as well as your bottom line.

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Planning Your Restaurant's Path to Profitability

Speaker: James Kahler, COO of Full Course

Ever wondered where to splurge and where to safely conserve when it comes to operating and growing your restaurant? 🤔 Join James Kahler, COO of Full Course and industry visionary, in this new webinar where he'll talk all about best practices to invest in your restaurant's success! Whether you're a new business or an established restaurant, a seasoned pro or a rookie, you'll learn the keys to sustainable success in this competitive industry.