Modern Restaurant Management
JULY 22, 2024
Imagine your wait staff getting your restaurant ready for the day when the heat index outside exceeds 100 degrees. The temperature is so oppressive that employees immediately crank up all the air conditioning units. An hour later, when sweltering guests crowd in, your team is too distracted to turn some units down. High electric bills and wasted energy are the last things on their minds.
Food Safety Tech
JULY 22, 2024
The review in the July 2024 Journal of Food Protection , “Potential for Glove Risk Amplification via Direct Physical, Chemical, and Microbiological Contamination,” sheds light on critical issues within the glove manufacturing industry and their implications for food safety. As food industry executives and professionals, it is crucial to understand these challenges and implement effective strategies to mitigate glove risks.
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Hospitality Net
JULY 22, 2024
Hotel performance declined more than expected with the greatest decrease taking place at the beginning of the week (Sunday-Tuesday) and the greatest impact occurring in the Top 25 Markets. A similar pattern was seen in 2019, which followed the same day-of-week calendar, although the decline this year was much more severe. In both 2019 and this year, the impact of July 4th occurring on Thursday reverberated into the following week, particularly the first couple days.
Foodservice Equipment Reports
JULY 22, 2024
Krispy Kreme shared today, July 22, that it has sold a majority ownership stake of Insomnia Cookies to the investment company Verlinvest and private equity firm Mistral Equity Partners. The release says the transaction represents a $350 million total enterprise value, which has doubled since Krispy Kreme’s 2018 acquisition. Krispy Kreme received $127.
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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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Hospitality Net
JULY 22, 2024
We’ve witnessed success from hoteliers and hospitality professionals alike who prioritize a data-driven culture. Our Hotel Moment podcast dives into those success stories, and it’s from those conversations that we bring you four tips from industry leaders who have grown their business by prioritizing the data they collect.
Food Service Focus brings together the best content for large-scale food service management professionals from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Hospitality Net
JULY 22, 2024
Singapore, 23/July/2024: Hotelogix, a globally leading cloud-based hospitality technology provider, has implemented e-Invoicing for Tanzania hotels through a Virtual Fiscal Device (VFD) vendor. With this, hospitality entities in Tanzania using Hotelogix Hotel Property Management System (Hotel PMS) can issue digital tax documents to comply with Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) guidelines.
FoodService Director
JULY 22, 2024
Awards and prizes highlighted the hard work of college dining professionals with the Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards, National Culinary Challenge and more.
Hospitality Net
JULY 22, 2024
Call it bleisure or hybrid travel; then look at emerging segments like the work-from-anywhere digital nomads or workcations. Overall, the hotel industry for the rest of the 2020s will see a demise of the days of wholly separated meeting and events (M&E) and leisure travel segments, giving away to a mixture of the two as travel becomes more experiential and purposeful.
Lavu
JULY 22, 2024
Alright, restaurateurs, it’s time to get real about your POS system. In this fast-paced industry, having the right restaurant management tools isn’t just nice – it’s crucial. Let’s dive into why flexible point of sale solutions are becoming the secret ingredient for successful restaurants. The Limitations of Standard POS Systems Let’s face it: those one-size-fits-all POS systems are about as useful as a dull knife in a professional kitchen.
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Hospitality Net
JULY 22, 2024
Sonesta International Hotels Corporation (Sonesta) today announced the opening of Costa Sur Resort, Classico Collection by Sonesta. The 206-room, upper-upscale property is located on a private beach overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Banderas Bay, south of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. The resort sits atop a protected lagoon and is minutes away from local attractions, including The Malecón boardwalk, The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Zona Romántica (Old Vallarta), and Rio Cuale Island.
Food Safety Magazine
JULY 22, 2024
Singapore Makes Edible Insect Sales, Imports Easier; Determines 16 Safe Species
Hospitality Net
JULY 22, 2024
Featuring an impressive collection of original artwork, the 121-room property completes eight-month refresh of all guest rooms, lobby, common areas and meeting spaces.
Food Safety Magazine
JULY 22, 2024
Beginning in August, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) will implement a new sampling program to verify allergen label claims on ready-to-eat (RTE) foods.
Hospitality Net
JULY 22, 2024
Equinox Hotels, a revolutionary leader in high-performance luxury hospitality, is proud to announce plans for the opening of Equinox Resort Treyam, one of Magna’s twelve destinations, located on the coast of the Gulf of Aqaba. Magna’s destinations, including Treyam, are part of NEOM, the evolving regional development, taking shape in northwest Saudi Arabia.
Food Safety Magazine
JULY 22, 2024
In this episode of Food Safety Matters , guest Nuno F. Soares, Ph.D. discusses a method for “selling” food safety to top management, as described in his newest book. Bob Ferguson also talks about his latest Food Safety Insights column on how technology is changing food safety.
Hospitality Net
JULY 22, 2024
Where did all of these robots come from? While hospitality may seem like the last place you might expect to find Artificial Intelligence, this technology has significantly impacted how hoteliers do business. While most generative AI today reacts to text prompts, it will soon rewrite the rules for hotel operations. Properties of all sizes, branded and independent alike, will benefit from automation taking over repetitive, mundane tasks — but our industry often struggles to explain how this will p
Food Safety Tech
JULY 22, 2024
I’ve seen it all when it comes to foreign material contamination — from electrical wire to welding slag to a folded-up $50 bill in a block of frozen protein. Physical foreign material contamination isn’t isolated to one type of material, phase of the manufacturing process or point in your supply chain. Physical contaminants can enter food product anywhere, anytime, making reliable detection and actionable traceability vital for producers to ensure safe product is sent to market 100% of the
Hospitality Net
JULY 22, 2024
The Shiji Guest Experience Benchmark Report for Q2 2024 offers a comprehensive look into guest satisfaction trends and review dynamics. This report is crucial for hotel operators and technology vendors aiming to enhance their service quality and customer engagement.
FoodService Director
JULY 22, 2024
School nutrition operators shared how they’re getting kids interested in the morning meal during a session last week at the School Nutrition Association’s 2024 Annual National Conference in Boston.
Hospitality Net
JULY 22, 2024
Set on a global stage, Formula 1 spans across multiple continents, with 12 of the 24 races so far this year having taken place on F1’s biggest ever calendar. We take a look at how host market hotels performed during this year’s races and what occupancy on the books looks like for races set for later this year.
Foodservice Equipment Reports
JULY 22, 2024
With reusable bowl options, carefully sourced ingredients and equipment tweaks, Just Salad is realizing the impact of its day-to-day choices. Its new 26-page 2024 Impact Report offers a glimpse behind the scenes throughout fiscal year 2023.
Hospitality Net
JULY 22, 2024
When someone values a hotel, they are generally attempting to estimate its “Market Value.” My newsletter this month will focus on the term “Market Value” and provide insight as to what this term really means during a sales transaction.
Forward Fooding
JULY 22, 2024
Now in its fifth edition, the FoodTech 500 has gathered more than 1500+ applications from AgriFoodTech startups & scaleups globally in 2023, receiving applications from 77 countries, with 57 countries represented in the latest edition of FoodTech 500 list, shedding light on the FoodTech 500 initiative’s widespread reach and global influence. This year, the FoodTech 500 list showcased 39 companies from LATAM.
Hospitality Net
JULY 22, 2024
In a significant development for the hospitality sector in Northwest China, Minor Hotels (China) is announcing the official signing of a Tivoli and NH dual-branded property in Yining, Xinjiang. This marks the debut of the luxury Tivoli Hotels & Resorts and upscale NH Hotels & Resorts brands in Northwest China. Upon opening in 2026, the project is expected to welcome guests from around the globe.
Bon Appetit Management Company
JULY 22, 2024
The BSC team Tenacity and grit are the key qualities that Jason Hall thinks of when he thinks of his former team at Birmingham Southern College (BSC) in Alabama, which closed its doors permanently at the end of the school year. Hall, who was the general manager at BSC from 2017 until the closure, is proud of the team’s successful run, particularly its safety record.
Hospitality Net
JULY 22, 2024
American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Interim President & CEO Kevin Carey released the following statement today after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) withdrew its appeal of a federal court ruling blocking its joint-employer final rule. That rule would have made it easier for the NLRB to declare joint-employment status in business relationships and allowed unions to organize by company rather than property by property.
Food Safety Magazine
JULY 22, 2024
Many food processors are currently struggling to understand how best to respond to a notice they recently received from an important customer – a prominent big box retailer – about its changing requirements regarding foreign material (FM) inspection.
Hospitality Net
JULY 22, 2024
A total of 347 deals (comprising mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity, and venture financing deals) were announced in the global travel and tourism sector during the first half (H1) of 2024, which was a year-on-year (YoY) decline of 12.6% compared to the 397 deals announced during the same period in the previous year, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
FMT Magazine
JULY 22, 2024
Food packaging is a basic necessity in our everyday lives; therefore, the packaging material deserves equal consideration. They help to keep it from undergoing the process of spoilage and contamination during handling, storage, or when being transported. However, due to the variety of food packaging options, decision-making might be complex on which type of food packaging to opt for the food products.
Hospitality Net
JULY 22, 2024
HQ, an industry-leading global enterprise solution for corporate ground transportation (mobility), announced today that Amex Ventures has made an investment to help accelerate the rollout of enhancements to its mobility platform, targeting both large enterprises and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The announcement was shared at the GBTA 2024, a premier global event for the business travel industry in Atlanta, Georgia.
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