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Larry and Adam Mogelonsky | October 6, 2021
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The Living Company Expands Hospitality Leadership Team
The Living Company | December 3, 2020
The Living Company (TLC) announced today that three veterans of the furniture industry will join its executive team as part of its continued expansion in the hospitality space. Beyond hospitality, TLC has experienced significant growth in the burgeoning workforce housing and co-living sectors. Through its University Furnishings brand, it is the leading supplier of furniture, fixtures, and equipment to off-campus student housing. Backed by Lee Equity Partners, TLC offers a comprehensive range of services, including design, sourcing, kitting, warehousing, delivery, installation, replacement, and rehabilitation. According to President and CEO...
The Automat Concept – What’s Old Is New Again With Technology: Opportunity for Hotels
Dr. Frederick DeMicco | December 2, 2020
By Frederick J. DeMicco, Ph.D. and Isaiah Morrow, MBA Student, The School of Hotel and Restaurant Management, The W.A. Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University A restaurant without waiters or workers behind the counter seems like an idea from the future; Ironically, this is an idea of the past. This concept is called an Automat, it was popularized in the early 1900s after the Spanish Flu Pandemic (Figure 1). Horn & Hardart, the largest Automat opened in New York in 1912 without any visible employees’ whatsoever costumers inserted their money into a glass-enclosed kiosk and enjoyed a steaming plate of freshly made food...
A New Model for Safety and Automation in F&B Management
Linda Pouliot | November 30, 2020
By Linda Pouliot F&B represents a significant portion of a hotel’s non-room revenue. Especially in the pandemic era, F&B management is among the most critical operational challenges confronting the hotel industry. Today’s environment offers two parallel challenges: Achieving operational efficiency and, at the same time, responding to, meeting and anticipating changing guest preferences that are driving a growing demand for safe, secure environmentally sound on-property experiences. As hoteliers rebuild their businesses, here are guidelines they can consider in constructing a new kind of F&B operating model that meet t...
Access Point Financial Provides FF&E Financing for Aloft Omaha Aksarben Village
Access Point Financial | November 23, 2020
Recognized leader in hospitality-focused lending closes loan for the property’s furniture, fixtures, and equipment during construction OMAHA, Neb. - November 23, 2020 – Access Point Financial, LLC (APF), a leading direct lender and specialty finance company focused exclusively on the hospitality industry, today announced the completion of an agreement with Center 60 Hospitality to finance the furniture, fixtures and equipment at the recently built Aloft Omaha Aksarben Village in Omaha, Nebraska. Center 60 Hospitality sourced Access Point Financial to secure a $450,000 loan to finance the hotel's furniture, fixtures, and equipme...
Bartech Unveils BarTouch Cloud to Enhance Manual Minibar Operations Efficiency
Bartech | November 18, 2020
Cloud-based platform enables seamless in-room F&B operations despite reduction in onsite non-essential staff, while minimizing costs and enhancing data security. Las Vegas — November 18, 2020 — Bartech, a Las Vegas-based provider of automatic, profit-generating minibar solutions for the global hospitality industry, has announced the launch of BarTouch Cloud, an advanced manual minibar management solution designed to address the needs of today’s hotels in a post-COVID industry environment. With guests expected to remain socially distanced and with properties limiting the presence of non-essential staff for the foreseeable fut...
Circa Resort & Casino Implements the InvoTech Uniform System for Contactless Uniform Distribution and Inventory Management
InvoTech Systems | October 28, 2020
InvoTech Uniform System Establishes Efficient Operations and Total Control with RFID Technology at Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas LOS ANGELES, CA – October 28th, 2020 InvoTech Systems Inc. announced the recent implementation of its Uniform System at Circa Resort & Casino. InvoTech Systems is the leading provider of advanced Linen Management, Laundry and Uniform Systems that integrate the latest RFID technology to increase profitability for hotels, resorts, casino operators, sports arenas, convention centers, theme parks and production plants. The InvoTech System installed at Circa Resort & Casino manages the uniform inven...
Harvey Leis Joins Belle Meade Hospitality
Belle Meade Hospitality | October 19, 2020
Belle Meade Hospitality, custom casegoods and seating manufacturer, is excited to welcome Harvey Leis to our sales team. He will service the Mid Atlantic and Northeast USA. Bringing over 25 years of experience in the furniture industry, from design, product development, to sales, he has established a reputation as a highly respected hospitality professional and will be an asset to your procurement needs with his experience and expertise. Harvey is based in Pennsylvania and can be reached at [email protected]
FreshAir Announces Unique and Highly Effective Smoking Detection System for Hotels
FreshAir Sensors | September 30, 2020
FreshAir1 monitors for, detects, and proves tobacco smoking and marijuana smoking Lebanon, NH – FreshAir, an industry leader in the development of sensors to detect and alert for hazardous chemicals, announces its unique and highly effective FreshAir1 Smoking Detection System. The FreshAir system is ideally suited for use in hotels, casinos, and other hospitality industry settings. The only technology available to monitor for, immediately detect, and prove tobacco smoking and marijuana smoking, FreshAir1 Smoking Detection Systems are ideal for enforcing no-smoking policies, protecting infrastructure investments, securing cleaning fees...
Ghost Kitchens in the Lodging Industry: A F & B Strategy for Hotels
Frederick J. DeMicco | September 29, 2020
By Frederick J. DeMicco, Ph.D. and Isaiah Morrow, School of Hotel and Restaurant Management, Northern Arizona University A Ghost kitchen is a professional food preparation and cooking facility that serves customers exclusively by delivery. Ghost kitchens do not have a physical location that customers can enter (yet). The concept of ghost kitchens strips down the traditional dining establishment by removing dining areas and fancy décor. Instead, they serve as kitchens for restaurants to prepare food to deliver to customers. Several restaurants can operate out of the same ghost kitchen, either working from the same facility or breaking the ...
What Skills Does a Culinary Arts Professional Need?
EHL Insights | September 21, 2020
As a culinary arts professional, the more skills you have, the more valuable you are. And, as with any career, the more valuable you are, the more successful you will become and ultimately the more satisfied you will be with your professional life. In the culinary arts profession, it all boils down to your skillset. Following are some of the skills that a culinary arts professional needs in order to be successful. Whether you work in a fine hospitality establishment that caters to international guests, or you work in a small French bistro in the South of France, you’ll need to hone the following culinary skills. Passion for the Culinary...
Automatically Receive Your Food Products and Update Your Costs in Seconds With Clear Sky Software’s Interface to Cheney Brothers
Clear Sky Software, Inc. ® | September 21, 2020
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – September 21, 2020 – Clear Sky Software, Inc. ® announced today the release of a new software interface between the company’s food inventory control system, called Clear Sky FOOD and Cheney Brothers ® Food Service Distributor. This interface is available immediately. With this new offering from Clear Sky Software, hospitality organizations have a complete, back-office food inventory management solution integrated with a major food distributor. Clear Sky FOOD helps users track food products from the point of purchase, through receiving and the ultimate transfer to kitchens, restaurants, banquets or an...
5 Tips for Cutting Down Food Costs
HotStats | September 17, 2020
With COVID-19 slicing into hotel profit, cutting food costs is more important than ever—especially with so many hotels now relying on food and beverage (F&B) services to meet guest expectations. If hoteliers want to drive profit in the wake of COVID-19, it’s crucial to monitor F&B costs. Otherwise, the expenses from these important operations could be draining critical cashflow. Luckily, there are simple ways a hotel or resort can grab control of its F&B expenses and increase profit. And lowering food costs is at the core of that plan. Here are five ways to lower food costs in the hotel industry in the face of COVID-19: ...
This Is Why You Keep Your Restaurant’s Signature Dish
Larry Mogelonsky | September 16, 2020
By Larry Mogelonsky, MBA, P. Eng. (www.hotelmogel.com) Chefs are creative individuals and I’m continually blown away by what these professionals can do when challenged to explore their passion. But a restaurant needs some marketing sensibility if it going to thrive, especially in a hotel or urban capacity where there are numerous other independent and more agile operations to compete with. While some executive chefs are themselves tremendous impresarios or, dare I say, celebrity chefs, many others need to be reined in so that the menus are in stride with what the market wants and so that they fit with the dining outlet’s theme for a...
What Does a Restaurant Manager Do?
EHL | August 31, 2020
One job, many hats Restaurant Managers ensure restaurants run smoothly and efficiently. They seek to provide customers with pleasant dining experiences that live up to brand standards. Their efforts, which include effectively managing employees, are ultimately geared towards safeguarding the profitability of the restaurant. In effect, an RM embodies general management, administration, customer services, human resources, supply chain & procurement, health and safety, compliance, accounting & marketing – all rolled into one. This is particularly true for those working in smaller establishments, who are in frequent contact with bot...
How Hotel F&B Pivoted in Response to COVID-19, and What the Future Holds
Court Williams | August 12, 2020
By Court Williams Global tourism has been expanding rapidly over the past few decades, and this was a primary factor driving the hospitality industry before the coronavirus outbreak. Growth projected by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), set the expected number of tourist arrivals across the globe at more than 1.5 billion by 2020. Covid-19 had other ideas, however, and 2020 has turned out to be the year everything changed. Hotel food and beverage (F&B) operations are among some of the most-affected industries. Key Hotel F&B Trends Before Covid-19 Change is inevitable, and the whirlwind arrival of Covid-19 proved once agai...
How F&B Service Will Change Post-COVID
HotStats | August 4, 2020
As COVID-19 plows through the hospitality industry, it’s carving new paths to profit along the way. Moving forward, hotel food and beverage (F&B) services will be among the most transformed departments in the post-COVID-19 world. Already, the virus has changed how F&B services attract customers, and it’s altering the habits of guests. (In a prior post, we presented how social distancing could transform F&B operations.) Wondering how F&B services will change for hotels post-COVID-19? In this article, we’ll dig into the answer. What’s the State of Hotel F&B Services Now? Unfortunately, many business owners wi...
Take Local to the Extreme
Larry Mogelonsky | July 22, 2020
By Larry Mogelonsky, MBA, P. Eng. (www.hotelmogel.com) Prior to Covid, hoteliers all over the world were already working on various programs to support local businesses and showcase the best of the community to guests. Now that the pandemic is practically locking out international travelers, the push for drive market customers and ‘local everything’ has bloomed exponentially. But if you are pursuing a course that many of your competitors are also going after, how do you stand apart? The answer is to go deep into your culture and lore, and simply outdo your rivals through what I call ‘extreme local’. Every city is unquestionab...
The Impact of Social Distancing on Hotel F&B Operations
HotStats | July 17, 2020
When 2020 is over and done with (could not come sooner, right?), “social distancing” will be the frontrunner for buzz term of the year. It doesn’t even matter that the World Health Organization has lobbied vigorously for the phrase to be dropped in favor of “physical distancing.” Poppycock ... hogwash ... piffle ... social distancing shall proceed as the preferred patois of the pandemic. Social distancing will play a key role in hospitality operations going forward, and in no place will this be more pronounced than food and beverage operations (F&B), which include restaurants, bars and conference and banqueting. F&...
The Tuxon, Newest Member of Marriott International’s Design Hotels Portfolio, Features Furnishings by Eclipse Hospitality
Eclipse Hospitality | July 9, 2020
PHOENIX, July 9, 2020 - After months of renovation and construction, the newest member of Marriott International’s Design Hotels portfolio, The Tuxon, opened July 3rd in Tucson, Arizona with casegoods manufactured by Phoenix-based Eclipse Hospitality. The Tuxon, pronounced “Tuck-son,” a playful nod to visitors to Tucson who mis-pronounce the silent “c” in the city’s name, joins Marriott’s elite group of more than 300 hotels located around the globe that promise their guests an immersive local experience. The Tuxon is set to be the first Marriott Design Hotels property in Arizona. “Furnishing The Tuxon was a beginning-to-end...
Serving Up the Future: Technology in F&B
| July 1, 2020
By Kimberly Yoong Even as the adoption of high-end technology became increasingly prevalent across industries around the world, the hospitality industry had long resisted indulging in automation, insisting on the value of the ‘human touch’. But with COVID-19 concerns still rife, many hotels and restaurants have had to turn to technology, ironically, to keep the physical, human touchpoints to a minimum. In 2019 alone, the agri-food tech industry saw US $19.8 billion in funding, of which nearly 40% went to eGrocers (20%) and offsite retail and restaurant infrastructure (16%). And now with the pandemic making food delivery apps and onl...
5 Easy Steps to Bring Employees Safely Back to Work Using the InvoTech UHF-RFID Uniform System
InvoTech | June 17, 2020
InvoTech Systems provides the perfect solution to help wardrobe operations transition employees safely back to work in the current situation—respecting social distancing and hygiene norms to enable full productivity of staff. Track your entire inventory and distribute uniforms without physical contact using the UHF-RFID Uniform System—from uniform purchase, assignments, daily use and laundry activity. Processing uniform transactions and recordkeeping is automated by simply passing the uniform items over a counter-top RFID antenna, a bulk reader station or using a portable handheld RFID reader. Here are the 5 easy steps you can implemen...
3 Simple Steps to Ensure Cleanliness Amid Covid-19 Worry
HotStats | June 16, 2020
COVID-19 has amplified the call for hotel cleanliness. Long after the virus is gone, the dangers of germs will linger in guests’ minds — producing anxiety with every sneeze, every handshake and every dubious surface. It’s up to hoteliers to both protect visitors and put their minds at ease. For hoteliers, the only way forward is through a fresh hotel cleanliness strategy. In this article, we’ll lay out a plan to not only keep guests safe, but also calm their nerves about virus threats. Here’s how to assure visitors of hotel cleanliness during and after COVID-19. Step 1: Reevaluate Your Deep Cleaning Plan Before the travel in...
Ripclear Releases New V2 COVID-19 Face Shields to Safeguard Hotel Personnel
| June 16, 2020
Ripclear, makers of the most advanced protective film for outdoor sports eyewear, announced the launch of its V2 Shield, designed to protect personnel dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak including hotel staffers, EMS workers, nurses, police, facility and operations personnel, and other front-line staff. They expertly designed V2 Shield features with 91% optical transparency, so that personnel can safely and effectively do their work while staying protected via a certified medical face shield. “We heard the needs of frontline responders and essential workers across the country, and are producing an optically clear, anti fog, foam padded fa...
Unlock New Possibilities With Contactless Access Control
ID&C | June 9, 2020
Florida based company, ID&C, helping to provide solutions to protect hotel staff and guests As the world emerges from self-isolation and people begin to travel once again, is your property ready with a plan for how you are keeping your hotel staff and guests safe? Now is the time to offer the option for your guests to purchase contactless access control products, such as “single use” pre-packaged RFID wristbands and key cards. With the increased need to ensure proper sanitation and health standards everywhere, it's important to secure your venue and easily identify your authorized guests. ID&C offers RFID and non-RFID contac...
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