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Why it’s time to add Reddit marketing to your mix

Smart Brief Hospitality

Many marketers still consider Reddit an enigma. Founded in 2005, it’s one of the few elder social media platforms that’s survived to today. Since the company’s IPO in March, its stock price has gone in the opposite direction everyone anticipated — up, up, up. It boasts a highly engaged 850 million monthly active users , an audience that isn’t afraid to share their opinions, viewpoints and feedback.

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Encouraging employees to invest in the environment

eHotelier

A new study finds that optimising leadership might be more effective than compensation programmes in motivating employees to engage in green practices.

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Mark Best charts his experience on Netflix’s The Final Table

Hospitality Magazine

Mark Best talks international fandom, being part of a new school of competitive culinary programming and why The Final Table was one of the greatest experiences of his career so far. When Netflix announced The Final Table in August 2018, the streaming platform described it as “a global culinary competition show featuring the world’s most renowned chefs”.

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Florida High Court Gave Bars a Big Win, But There Are Additional Ways to Reduce Liability Risk  

Modern Restaurant Management

Owners of bars, taverns, restaurants and other establishments serving alcohol kept a close eye on a case before the Supreme Court of Florida this year. At issue was a $28.6 million jury verdict against a bar awarded to a young woman catastrophically injured when she was hit by a pickup truck driven by an underage 20-year-old who had been drinking at the bar.

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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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Restaurant Accounting: A Comprehensive Guide

7 Shifts

Restaurant accounting isn’t easy. It involves tracking massive amounts of real data and industry benchmarks. It even has its own language, KPIs, EBITDAs, and CoGs. Sounds complicated? That’s probably because you’re hearing most of these words for the first time. Learning basic accounting is like studying a different language, regardless of how many decades you have in the restaurant industry.

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How can your hotel ensure guests sleep well?

eHotelier

By focusing on sleep quality, hotels can greatly improve the guest experience and satisfied guests are more likely to return and recommend your hotel.

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How Text Analysis Helps Restaurants Identify Customer Issues

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants receive huge amounts of feedback from customers — in survey responses, via social media, on review sites, and more. This unstructured feedback — text responses about your restaurant — holds valuable insights into what’s going right or wrong at your locations, all of which drives repeat visitors, retention, and loyalty.

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Birch & Waite 

Hospitality Magazine

Birch & Waite is a locally owned business that was founded more than 30 years ago with a vision to provide superior-quality, fresh-chilled products for the professional chef. Birch & Waite’s endless pursuit for culinary perfection and innovation continues to set the benchmark in Australia for mayonnaises, dressings, relishes, sauces, and desserts.

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Unlocking potential: the benefits of early career exploration in hospitality

eHotelier

Early career exploration in the hospitality industry is about more than just landing a job; it's about developing skills, finding a passion, and starting a rewarding career path.

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Landmark Watts Restaurant Locol Is Reopening

EATER

The restaurant will reopen August 8 in its original location

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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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Is it PSL Season Already?

Modern Restaurant Management

While the restaurant industry has been focused on value meals so far this summer, Pumpkin Spice Latte (PSL) season has snuck up on us with independent restaurants leading the orange-colored way. From May 15 to July 15, SpotOn saw 1,070 “pumpkin” items added to menus across the country, with a spike of 176 items added just between July 7 and 13 alone.

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Trimatt Systems

Hospitality Magazine

Looking to print your food and drink packaging in-house and on demand? Discover printing solutions from Trimatt Systems to profit more. Visit the 2022 APPMA Australian Machinery Manufacturer of the Year Trimatt Systems at stand HJ37. The team will showcase Australian-designed and manufactured print automation solutions for the first time at Fine Food Australia, providing visitors with a unique opportunity to see profit-boosting machinery up close.

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Is your hotel breakfast an overlooked profit center? 

eHotelier

Breakfast can be a profit center from brand recognition, search engine visibility, and increased turnover and profitability.

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A Daiquiri for Every Mood

EATER

The 24 best Daiquiri cocktail recipes, including the classic and the Hemingway Daiquiri, plus frozen, clarified and Campari-spiked riffs.

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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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Capturing actionable data: the Digital Product Checklist

MEWS

Data in sharper focus There's certainly no shortage of data. Current estimates put the amount produced globally every day at 328.77 million terabytes. That sounds like a lot. And it is; if all that data was in full HD CCTV footage and your security team watched it for 24 hours a day, it would take around 7.5 million years to get through it all. It would be the night shift that never ended.

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Artisan Food Company Australia 

Hospitality Magazine

Artisan Food Company Australia is a dynamic and leading food contract manufacturer. World-class manufacturing capabilities and a European-inspired product portfolio allows the brand to create food solutions locally and globally for retail, industrial, and foodservice customers. The brand’s range of premium arancini, snack bites, and roti products are the perfect additions to menus that require quick cooking and flavourful small portions in individual or bulk packaging.

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The business case for appealing to hotel guests with disabilities

eHotelier

A significant customer cohort that has yet to be fully embraced at both operational and marketing levels are guests with disabilities. Substantial opportunities exist to upsell and cross-sell to capture more total revenue from this growing segment.

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How Chef Dawn Burrell Went From Olympic Athlete to Culinary Force

EATER

Houston chef Dawn Burrell details her journey from the world stage as an Olympian to the world stage as a top chef

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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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Five successful hotel operations transformations

MEWS

1. Glampsource North Hatley: no more paper The new generation of hoteliers are lucky. They don’t know some of the painful, time-consuming processes that used to be necessary before technology came along.

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Lancer Worldwide

Hospitality Magazine

Experience innovation and excellence with Lancer Worldwide and Hoshizaki at Fine Food Australia 2024. Discover a dynamic showcase featuring state-of-the-art beer fonts, frozen beverage dispensers, and soft drink dispensers from Lancer Worldwide. Hoshizaki’s renowned ice machines, commercial fridges, freezers, water dispensers, and sushi cabinets all complement these innovations.

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Luxury brands expand into new hospitality sectors beyond cafés and spas

eHotelier

The frontiers of how luxury can be experienced are being widened resulting in greater market presence and richer multisensorial experiences.

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A Tomato and Mozzarella Pasta Recipe That Celebrates Summer Produce

EATER

Photo illustration by Lille Allen; see below for full credits This dinner for one puts summer tomatoes on a pedestal Fresh tomato pasta is hardly a new invention: there are countless recipes spread across the internet, including versions from Martha Stewart and Ina Garten. And then there’s my mom’s incarnation, which is threaded with mozzarella and basil.

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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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What Restaurant Operators Need to Know About RFID

Modern Restaurant Management

In early 2022, Chipotle Mexican Grill began testing radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to enhance its traceability and inventory systems at its Chicago distribution center and approximately 200 restaurants in the greater Chicago area, becoming one of the first major restaurant companies to leverage RFID case labels to track ingredients from suppliers to restaurants via serialization.

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AJ Baker

Hospitality Magazine

Teams from across Australia, including the dedicated foodservice team from South Australia, will be at Fine Food Australia to showcase a selection of amazing products AJ Baker supplies, installs, maintains, and services from refrigeration brands including Manitowoc Ice, Bonnet Névé, Criocabin, and All Chilled. Whether you’re exploring new refrigeration solutions for your business, learning more about high-quality ice-making machines, or are simply curious, AJ Baker’s team of experts will be on h

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Radisson Hotel Group expands its presence in Egypt with the opening of Radisson Residences, Cairo Heliopolis

eHotelier

Radisson Hotel Group is proud to announce the opening of Radisson Residences, Cairo Heliopolis located in the heart of Egypt’s vibrant capital in the famous Heliopolis district and the first Radisson Residences in Cairo.

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Master the Mexican Classics

EATER

These five classic Mexican cocktail recipes go beyond the Margarita and Paloma. Here's how to make the Carajillo, Batanga and more.

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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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Understanding Legality of Non-Alcoholic and Cannabis-Infused Beverage Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

There has been a lot of fluidity in the beverage sphere over the past few years with the rise of mocktails and other nonalcoholic experience. In 2023, off-premise sales of non-alcoholic beer, wine, and spirits topped $565 million, according to NielsenIQ, which was a 35-percent increase in dollar sales from the prior year. Alternatively, there's been an uptick in the cannabis-infused beverages market – with the $2.04 billion market in 2023 projected to grow to $3.09 billion globally.

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Best Juices Co 

Hospitality Magazine

Best Juices Co is a trusted locally owned and operated Victorian company that has supplied quality juices since 2013. The business is built on a foundation of supplying exceptional, consistent, and quality products to a wide range of retail and wholesale customers. The company only accepts the highest-quality raw ingredients to make its product range, which includes oils, olives, and organic juices.

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Resolute Road Hospitality celebrates grand opening of The Newberry Hotel, A tapestry collection by Hilton

eHotelier

Resolute Road Hospitality, a third-party management company founded on the promise to change the way owners think of their management company, announced today the grand opening of The Newberry Hotel, a stunning addition to the Tapestry Collection by Hilton.

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The Pumpkin Spice Slurpee Nobody Asked For Arrives Today

EATER

The color is giving pee, not PSL. | 7-Eleven WYD, 7-Eleven??? Like every other basic millennial white woman of a certain age, I, too, cannot resist the allure of fall. I can’t wait for shorter days, cooler temperatures, and yes, delicious fall beverages tinged with warming spices. But that enthusiasm for all things autumn doesn’t include the new pumpkin spice Slurpee from 7-Eleven , which officially arrives in certain “top Slurpee drink markets” — including stores in Texas, California, New York,

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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.