October, 2022

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Wellbrook Hospitality’s principals on future growth

Boutique Hotel News

BHN editor Eloise Hanson speaks to Timothy Griffin, PJ Kenny and Prasanthan Balakrishnan, principals at Wellbrook Hospitality , about the group’s first project LEVEN Manchester, expansion plans, and investor sentiment. The post Wellbrook Hospitality’s principals on future growth appeared first on Boutique Hotel News.

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How to respond to reviews, according to experienced hoteliers

eHotelier

These tips from experienced hoteliers can make the task of responding to guest feedback a little less daunting, and they also show how imperative it is to engage with customers in the form of review responses.

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Canteen by Matt Moran opens at the Sydney Opera House

Hospitality Magazine

Solotel has secured the site currently operating as Opera Kitchen for a three-year term following a public tender. The group will replace current concept Opera Kitchen with House Canteen, which will open for all-day dining seven days a week. “It’s hard to beat this waterside location at the Opera House,” says House Canteen Co-Owner Matt Moran. . “We’re thrilled to continue being part of such an iconic location for our city with House Canteen.

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How Digital Can Help Brands Create Personalized Experiences for Guests

Modern Restaurant Management

For the past several years—and especially since the pandemic—restaurant brands have focused on enhancing digital experiences that allow them to offer more off-premise options and streamline operations to address staff shortages. While digital tools help solve these problems and open up a new world of marketing possibilities, they can also help brands create more personalized experiences, and therefore, a more meaningful relationship with their guests.

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

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, 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 History of Tipping in Restaurants: The Complicated Past, Present, and Future

7 Shifts

When you dine out at a restaurant, you tip your server. It's the expectation and an essential part of how restaurant workers earn a living. A guest's tip subsidizes wages for most of America's restaurant workers. It's a reality that only exists in North America—the United States and Canada. In most other parts of the world, tips are not expected—and in some cases, it's considered rude to tip.

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Carnival Cruise Line Drops All Protocols for Most Sailings

Cruise Hive

Carnival Cruise Line drops requirements for almost all sailings, making it even easier for passengers to take a vacation. The post Carnival Cruise Line Drops All Protocols for Most Sailings appeared first on Cruise Hive.

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Drone food delivery is taking off

eHotelier

A major potential advantage of drone-based food delivery is that drones are eco-friendly, in line with calls to promote sustainability in the food service industry.

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Maybe Sammy named top bar in Australasia

Hospitality Magazine

Sydney’s Maybe Sammy is the highest-ranking Australian bar on the 2022 edition of The World’s 50 Best Bars list. It marks the fourth consecutive year the high-glam venue has come out on top, with the bar snagging the no.29 spot. The top 50 bars were announced at an awards ceremony held in Barcelona earlier in the week, with some of the Maybe Sammy team celebrating the big win in person.

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Ahead of Fire Prevention Week – Is Your Restaurant Safe?

Modern Restaurant Management

As a result of the Great Chicago Fire that killed 250 people in 1871, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed an annual week in October as Fire Prevention Week, now the longest-running public health and safety observance on record. In 2020 , local fire departments responded to an estimated 1.4 million fires in the United States. These fires caused 3,500 civilian fire deaths and 15,200 reported civilian fire injuries.

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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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How to Write a Restaurant Business Plan [with Sample]

7 Shifts

You can't start a restaurant without a plan. A restaurant business plan is one of the most (if not the most) essential elements in getting a new restaurant off the ground. There are a few reasons for this: A business plan is typically the first thing any lender or investor will want to look at. Taking the time and energy to create one proves to others (and yourself) that you're serious about the venture.

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The 34 Best Cleveland Restaurants

EATER

Martha on the Fly. Fancy cocktails at a Viking drinking hall, steamy breakfast sandwiches at a pandemic-era micro-diner, lamb ssam for two at a Mediterranean stunner, and more great bites to try now in Cleveland Cleveland has always been somewhat of an overachiever when it comes to restaurants. Thanks to a handful of talented, pioneering chefs like Michael Symon, Karen Small, Zack Bruell, Dante Boccuzzi, and Doug Katz, who got the culinary ball rolling 20 years ago, the city had a jump on simila

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How to Select the Right Property Management System for Your Hotel

Hotelogix

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Moral marketing: How to advertise your hotel’s commitment to ethics

eHotelier

Hoteliers must promote their commitment to ethical action if they want to attract modern customers and keep them coming back. These tips will help you honestly and believably advertise your hotel’s commitment to ethics.

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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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Global Asset Solutions launches Hotel Asset Management course

Hotel Owner

Global Asset Solutions has launched an online training course with external accreditation which will aim to support the growing demand for hotel asset management. The course will reportedly target aspiring asset managers who are already working elsewhere in the sector, as well as students and new entrants. According to Global Asset Solutions, the certificate is tailored towards hotel owners, bankers, investors, lenders, operators, students and “anyone involved in hotel real estate who wants to u

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How Restaurants Can Survive (and Thrive) in Periods of Economic Turmoil

Modern Restaurant Management

With a recession on the horizon, recent data from the National Restaurant Association found that 43 percent of restaurant owners believe that economic conditions will decline in the next six months. While the current situation for restaurants is far from good and with the rising cost of food adding to the situation, it is no surprise that restaurateurs are stressed for what’s to come.

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The Bahamas Agrees on Massive New Cruise Port Development

Cruise Hive

The Bahamas attracts major investments as it signs a deal for a new cruise port based on Long Island, capable of handling 13,000 guests daily. The post The Bahamas Agrees on Massive New Cruise Port Development appeared first on Cruise Hive.

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How Black Gloves Took Over Cooking Videos

EATER

RusAKphoto/Shutterstock. Black nitrile gloves have emerged as a calling card of the food content creator class — and a polarizing one, at that On Instagram, black-gloved hands pull apart a stuffed chocolate cookie until it’s held together by only sticky tendrils of marshmallow. On TikTok, they heap cheese, meat, and eggs into a loaf of bread as the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Big Poppa” plays in the background, resulting in a video that’s been watched nearly 9 million times.

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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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Lodging Econometrics: Dallas Leads the U.S. Construction Pipeline By Projects

Lodging Magazine

PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire—According to the third quarter United States Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE), the U.S. market with the largest hotel construction pipeline by projects is Dallas with a record high count of 174 projects, accounting for 20,676 rooms. Following Dallas is Atlanta with 139 projects/17,843 rooms, Los Angeles with 118 projects/19,062 rooms, Phoenix with 113 projects/15,508 rooms, and New York with 102 projects/17,805 rooms.

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5 tips to increase hotel newsletter signups

eHotelier

Here are five practical ways to increase hotel newsletter sign-ups, enabling you to build quality relationships, increase patronage, and attract more guests.

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Top Tips for Success in Content and Influencer Marketing Campaigns

Revfine

Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel What advice can you offer to anyone considering a Content Marketing and/or Influencer Marketing campaign this year? (Question proposed by Sarah Dandashy) Our Marketing Expert Panel Sarah Dandashy - Travel & Hospitality Expert, Ask a Concierge Reshan Jayamanne - Digital Marketing. The post Top Tips for Success in Content and Influencer Marketing Campaigns appeared first on Revfine.com.

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How To Build a Manager

Modern Restaurant Management

A few months ago, I wrote about how hard it is to find staff, especially managers. At that time, I discussed two ways that we were going to build a manager from existing staff rather than search for a new one. Recently, one of my clients had a great manager pass away unexpectedly. The first thing we did after we got over our initial shock was to put together a Go Fund Me to help his family in their time of need.

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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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Barbados Cruise Season Begins, More than 25 Cruise Lines to Visit

Cruise Hive

The first ships of the season have visited Barbados already, and more than 25 cruise lines will call on the country in the next 5 months. The post Barbados Cruise Season Begins, More than 25 Cruise Lines to Visit appeared first on Cruise Hive.

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Andrea Nguyen’s Genius Soy-Seared Tofu Recipe Offers Big Flavor for Little Effort

EATER

James Ransom/Ten Speed Press. Published in Food52’s new “Simply Genius” cookbook, Nguyen’s recipe requires zero pressing or freezing “There’s so much misinformation about tofu out there,” says cookbook author Andrea Nguyen. One of those myths, she notes, is the idea that tofu must be “forced into, you know, like a vise grip, so that it is so firm that it doesn’t fall apart.

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AHLA: U.S. Hotel Leisure Travel Revenue to End 2022 14 Percent Above 2019

Lodging Magazine

WASHINGTON—U.S. hotel leisure travel revenue is projected to end 2022 14 percent above 2019 levels, while hotel business travel revenue is expected to come within 1 percent of 2019 levels, according to a new analysis released today by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) and Kalibri Labs. The projections are not adjusted for inflation, and real hotel revenue recovery will likely take several more years.

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Investing in the tourism sector? Look out for these 5 upcoming tourism trends

eHotelier

If you are investing in the tourism sector in India, look out for these 5 upcoming trends, which may see a higher surge in 2022 and onwards.

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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.