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Breakfast Is King: Elevating the Guest Experience through F&B Innovations
Court Williams | August 14, 2023
By Court Williams Food and beverage (F&B) services are now integral to the hotel guest experience, extending beyond mere sustenance to create memorable moments and elevate the overall stay. Gone are the days when hotel restaurants were loss leaders, primarily serving the needs of in-house guests. F&B has emerged as a profit center, with proactive and innovative approaches driving its success. The Power of Innovative F&B Today’s hotel guests expect more than just a place to rest. They want intriguing and Instagrammable moments extending to the dining table, community spaces, and overall experience. Hotels recognize the power...
The Latest Wine Trend for Fall Then 2024
Adam and Larry Mogelonsky | August 9, 2023
By Adam and Larry Mogelonsky If you know either of us, then you know that we are big fans of wine. Besides the actual taste and endless variety of production around the world, we write about wine because it’s a great way to ramp up restaurant revenues on a high-margin basis. But this only occurs when the wine is effectively marketed and sold. For reference (and to show we actually know what we’re talking about), we published a book about how to sell more wine last year, and we’ve written about how finetuning your wine strategy can be used to generate quick wins for the hotel. Today, we look ahead, first to Q4 2023 then to 2024. Sp...
Tourism Tidbits: The Importance of Food and Food Safety for the Travel and Tourism Industry
Dr. Peter Tarlow | August 4, 2023
By Dr. Peter Tarlow The northern hemisphere’s long summer months are a time to relax and enjoy the great outdoors. When it comes to food preparation and good food safety habits, however, being too relaxed can destroy a vacation or even terminate in hospitalization. Although no one has recently connected food safety to criminal acts or acts of terrorism, this has occurred in the past. As we learned during the Covid-19 pandemic health is an important part of tourism security. Likewise, food safety must be an essential component of a sustainable tourism industry. We only have to review some of the problems that the cruise industry has...
A New Flavour for Hotels
PolyU School of Hotel and Tourism Management | July 20, 2023
A priority of hotels worldwide is, quite naturally, attracting and catering to the needs of guests. Seldom do hotels invest heavily in strategies to cater to non-guests. However, according to Dr Sung Gyun Mun, Dr Linda Woo of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a co-author, hotels’ food and beverage (F&B) departments can bring in big money by attracting customers from local communities – not just tourists. With important implications for businesses in the post-COVID-19 era of tourism recovery, the authors suggest that hotels may be able to use their F&B offerings to reach n...
Profiting From Low Cal Wines
Adam and Larry Mogelonsky | July 12, 2023
By Larry and Adam Mogelonsky Coming off what was hopefully a restful 4th of July break, lest we forget that wine is a still a profit center for hotels and restaurants all around the world and for all four seasons of the year. Still, there are lots of new trends to embrace in order to drive average check per cover. There are lots of reasons to rethink your beverage strategy for the latter half of 2023 and for 2024, especially because it can mean quick wins for your hotel’s revenues versus more expensive, long-term projects. And as a quick plug, if you’re interested in learning how to market your wine list for revenue optimization, co...
Meyer Jabara Hotels Partners With IMI Agency to Offer Expanded Beverage Program
Meyer Jabara Hotels | July 12, 2023
Leading hotel management and ownership group leverages new food & beverage partnership to elevate training, upselling across its operating portfolio [Danbury, Conn., July 12, 2023] — A proven industry leader in hotel food and beverage operations for more than 45 years, Meyer Jabara Hotels announced a new partnership with IMI Agency to roll out a cutting-edge beverage program at every one of the company’s full-service hotels, and every property equipped with a restaurant, lounge, or banquet hall. Through the agreement, which went into effect at the beginning of June 2023, IMI Agency will provide Meyer Jabara Hotels with expanded ac...
Shiji Adds New Mobile Ordering Solution “Shiji Digital Dine” to Infrasys Cloud POS
Shiji | June 14, 2023
Shiji’s new mobile ordering solution for Hospitality F&B -Shiji Digital Dine, is now available for Infrasys POS customers worldwide, helping hotels around the world improve service quality and increase revenue potential. ATLANTA, Georgia, USA, June 14, 2023 – Shiji, the global hospitality technology innovator, has introduced anew mobile ordering solution called Shiji Digital Dine, aimed at improving operational efficiency and enhancing the guest dining experience in the Hospitality F&B industry, by supporting direct ordering and connectivity with the hotels’ POS. In conjunction with Infrasys Cloud POS, Shiji has devel...
Cocktail Trends: What Tipple Will You Be Cheersing in 2023?
EHL Insights | June 12, 2023
Cocktails are a great marker of the times we live in and fascinating trends to follow for those mixologists serving on the front-line as well as those at the front of the line at the bar! This year our cocktail shakers are going to be filled with blasts from the past (the 90s to be precise), new takes on the classic Negroni, and a certain je ne sais quoi from the cocktail-drinking experience. We’ve spoken to the EHL mixologists to gather the cocktail trends filling our cups in 2023. These are the drinks you’ll be cheersing this year! 1. Spicy drinks There has been a movement away from sugary sweet cocktails, towards a more savory palett...
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