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Enhancing Restaurant Operations: Achieving Continuous Improvement

Sculpture Hospitality

In the ever-evolving landscape of the restaurant industry, standing out and thriving requires more than just offering great food. It demands a relentless pursuit of excellence, a commitment to continuous improvement, and an unwavering dedication to delivering exceptional experiences for customers.

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5 questions managers of remote teams should ask themselves

eHotelier

We know that managing a team remotely is fraught with both technical and interpersonal complications. Here are suggestions to make sure you're successful at it.

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Colin Fassnidge headlines Sydney Guinness and oyster festival

Hospitality Magazine

Chef Colin Fassnidge is teaming up with Sydney venue The Doss House to celebrate all things Guinness and oysters for one weekend this August. The festival is the brainchild of Doss House Owner Ciara Doran, Fassnidge, and Fishtales’ John Susman, and will see different food activations held across The Doss House’s sandstone courtyards including an East 33 oyster station, a pig on a spit, and a stall with colannon (mashed potato) turnovers and beef and Guinness pies.

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Destination Marketing For Hotels: Top 5 Tips

InnQuest

In today’s highly competitive hospitality industry, effective destination marketing plays a crucial role in attracting guests to hotels. With the rise of online travel platforms and social media, hotels must employ strategic marketing tactics to stand out from the crowd. This blog post will provide valuable tips and insights for hotels to enhance their destination marketing efforts and entice travelers to choose their hotel for a memorable stay.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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Uncover Your Restaurant’s Uniqueness: A Path to Standing Out

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant operators are always looking for new tools, promotion channels, and advertising options, but they might not be quite sure what they need to say to tempt a potential guest. Before dealing with promotion of any kind, you should determine your restaurant’s base: the value of the establishment, its uniqueness, target audience, and the place that the restaurant occupies in the minds of guests.

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9 benefits of implementing a customer experience platform: insights from industry experts

eHotelier

The results of implementing a platform that is focused on the guest experience include improved guest satisfaction and loyalty, higher ratings and reviews, and increased revenue through repeat bookings and positive word of mouth.

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8 Benefits of staying in serviced apartments | Mews

MEWS

Modern travelers have diverse needs and preferences. Let's see how serviced apartments meet them by offering flexibility, comfort and convenience while bridging the gap between hotels and apartments.

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Embracing AI: A Recipe for Success in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t new, but suddenly it’s everywhere. Stories of its perils or profits appear in everything you read, scroll, listen to, or watch, making it difficult to separate hype from help. Our Revenue Management Solutions (RMS) team believes AI falls into the latter category. We also believe in the fast-paced world of the restaurant industry, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a key ingredient for success.

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Sustainability with Jennifer Klar of Six Senses

eHotelier

In this episode, Jennifer Klar discusses Six Senses’ industry-leading approach to wellness and sustainability.

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Steven Sinclair to join Sydney’s Jacksons on George

Hospitality Magazine

The former Icebergs Dining Room and Bar and L’enclume alumni has been announced as head chef for the upcoming venue. Jacksons on George is the first venue from hospitality group DTL Entertainment Group Pty Ltd lead by Creative Director Maurice Terzini and General Manager Michael Broome. The multi-level venue is set to open in spring at the new Sydney Place precinct in Circular Quay.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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9 marketing strategies for serviced apartments | Mews

MEWS

The right marketing strategy can help serviced apartments make an impact, grow and outdo the competition – all while boosting profitability. First, let's look at how to attract guests in different stages of the marketing funnel: awareness, consideration and the purchase phase.

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Revolutionizing Restaurant Supply Chains: The Impact of AI on Transparency, Validation, Verification, and Sustainability

Modern Restaurant Management

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has become invaluable in the food industry. It can help improve restaurants’ transparency, validation, verification, and communication, driving key performance indicators (KPIs) like increased customer satisfaction, trust, and loyalty. AI can also improve sustainability within restaurants – and throughout their supply chains – with huge benefits that include waste and carbon emissions reduction, cost savings, and meeting consumer demand.

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Hotel talent management: recruit, develop, retain for success

eHotelier

Here are effective strategies for recruiting top-tier talent quickly, actionable plans for fostering their professional growth, and techniques for encouraging continued service, ensuring a seamless bounce back for your hotel. In a world still recovering from the impact of the pandemic, this dedication to your team isn't just good business practice; it's the path to resilience and growth.

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New Xero data reveals the state of Australia’s small businesses

Hospitality Magazine

Global business platform Xero has released its latest data as part of the Xero Small Business Index that covers statistics from February to June 2023. The Xero Small Business Index averaged 120 points in the first five months of this year, which is above the last result of 112 that was revealed at the end of 2022. The data has been calculated from aggregated and anonymised transactions from hundreds of thousands of small businesses across the country.

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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 maintain innovation in a scaling business

MEWS

Often as organizations scale, they lose their edge. Things start to move slower, and innovation can feel few and far between. This post will outline seven key points I’ve learned for maintaining an innovative edge within a cross-functional product team, enabling growth and promoting creativity.

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A Better Approach for Unbanked Restaurant Employees

Modern Restaurant Management

More than 75 percent of Americans say that increasing financial stress is impacting their productivity at work. Financial insecurity has hit all-time highs in many segments of the workforce, including the restaurant and quick service restaurant (QSR) industries, whose workers tend to be more underserved with less access to affordable banking services.

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The cost of faking a smile

eHotelier

New findings show that suppressing or hiding internal feelings can be detrimental to employees and reduce their intention to remain their role, which has clear managerial and practical implications.

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St. Ali opens coffee and cocktail venue at Queen Victoria Market

Hospitality Magazine

Melbourne’s St. Ali has opened a day-to-night concept in the Queen Victoria Market. St. Ali & The Queen is located in the new Munro development and is described as a European-style concept serving specialty coffee, cocktails, and a market-focused food menu. “Coffee brands and cafés have a hard time transitioning from day to night, and very few venues have managed to do it well so for us, The Queen is a physical manifestation of our desire to get into the night life environment,”

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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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Is your Country Club’s Career Page Turning Away Talent?

Horizon Hospitality

Believe it or not, ninety-two percent of online job applications go unfinished by candidates. That is a staggering figure for any business trying to keep teams staffed. For industries like country clubs, which already deal with a limited talent pool, it is also problematic. What can clubs do when their career page is losing candidates interest? Focus on the Candidate.

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Process Innovation as the Core Engine for Hotel Technology Implementation

Larry Mogelonsky

Reflecting on the past year and a half, have you noticed that the pace of the world has seemed to become relentlessly fast? At first, it was easy to chalk this up to playing catch-up from the temporary slowdown of daily life that was the pandemic. But this current tempo is the real new normal, especially with the dawn of publicly available generative artificial bits of intelligence like ChatGPT that are implied to be the provocateurs for widespread creative destruction in both travel and hospita

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Designing achievable goals through market & business insights

eHotelier

Data and analysis provide the foundational insights to set realistic, meaningful, and strategic objectives.

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The history of the gilda

Hospitality Magazine

The gilda is a classic Basque pintxos that comprises three ingredients: Guindilla peppers, an anchovy, and an olive skewered together. The savoury snack first appeared in the 1940s at Bar Casa Valles in San Sebastian, Spain, which is one of the earliest and most influential pintxos bars in the area. While the origin location is widely accepted, there is debate around exactly who created the first gilda.

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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 Best Pasta Salad Recipes, According to Eater Staff 

EATER

Bettina Makalintal/Eater Follow these Eater-approved, summer-friendly recipes to the letter, or consider them your starting points for experimentation There’s no time of year that we’d really ever turn down pasta salad. But we certainly lean on it the most in the summer, when we need travel-friendly dishes to bring to picnics or refreshingly cold food to eat from the fridge.

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With Great Rates Come Great Guest Expectations

Larry Mogelonsky

Even in the back half of 2023, every hotel is still contending with inflation in some way or another, likely passing these costs onto the customer. Thus far, from what the aggregated travel numbers for this year indicate, guests have been fine with the increased rates. But does that mean that your current guests – in what can ostensibly still be described as a rebound year from the pandemic – are happy guests that are ready to come back within a reasonable timeframe?

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IHG to redefine luxury hospitality in Saudi Arabia with debut of ultra-luxury brand Regent Hotels & Resorts

eHotelier

IHG® Hotels & Resorts, one of the world’s leading hospitality companies, has signed a management agreement with Almuhaysin Group to open the first Regent Hotel in the Middle East, in Saudi Arabia. Set to open by mid-2024 in one of the most prestigious waterfront locations in Jeddah, Regent Jeddah will provide uninterrupted views of the Corniche and Jeddah’s Formula 1 racetrack, setting a new standard for modern ultra-luxury in Saudi Arabia.

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Nomad Group’s Reine & La Rue to open next week

Hospitality Magazine

Bookings are now open for the much-anticipated French-inspired venue in Melbourne which is set to open on 1 August. Reine & La Rue was announced earlier this year in May , and has been coming together at Melbourne’s 189s neo-gothic Melbourne Stock Exchange building. The 150-seat venue will host a main dining space, bar, and the eight-seat speakeasy La Rue which will also serve the main dining menu.

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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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Redcraig Lodges brought to market for £690k asking price

Hotel Owner

Redcraig Lodges in Bridge of Dee has been brought to market for an asking price of £690,000. The listing includes four self-contained one-bedroom holiday lodges in a location ideally situated for Aberdeen, as well as separate detached four-bedroom owners’ accommodation. The lodges have been formed by the redevelopment of a former steading building and provide a large double bedroom with shower room and open plan kitchen, lounge and dining room.

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A Power Proposition: Transparent Energy Brings Procurement Expertise to AHLA Members

Industry Insights Lodging Magazine

Working out of Transparent Energy’s Chicago Office, Business Development Manager Eric Wyman helps lead the business development team in their assignments with innovative buying strategies used to manage his clients’ energy portfolios and mitigate risk in the market.​ He is an experienced professional responsible for providing dynamic energy management services to commercial and industrial businesses with diverse facilities located in deregulated power markets throughout the country.

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Maslina Resort announces the launch of its new Real Estate Investment

eHotelier

Having opened in 2020, the much-loved five-star Relais and Chateaux property, Maslina Resort, on Hvar, Croatia, has announced that it is ready to begin a new story, with the expansion of an additional 5 luxurious Villas and 12 Residences, a turn-key project operated under the Maslina brand.

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Why more venues are keeping the kitchen open after hours

Hospitality Magazine

We’ve all been in a position where you lose track of time and the food options dwindle — if not completely disappear. But more venues are catering to those looking for a meal as the clock strikes midnight. In Sydney, Merivale’s Mumu has launched a late-night menu serving up a combination of tasty, familiar eats and options from its usual South-East Asian-influenced offering.

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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.