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9 Important Hospitality Sales and Marketing Tips

Social Hospitality: Restaurants

From 2009 to 2017, gross bookings in U.S. Organize a wine tasting event, or anything related to local products. Provide Career Growth Opportunities for the Best Employees. Your employees, especially those who are in direct touch with clients, are the faces of your business. Hire the right people with the right background.

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Restaurant Labor Laws Cheat Sheet: Seattle

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Download the ebook Seattle Employee Pay & Minimum Wage Laws Seattle Minimum Wage Seattle is known for having one of the highest minimum wages in the United States, which has made it difficult for the city’s restaurateurs to balance high costs with the need to keep prices down in recent years. However, if employees are tipped $2.25

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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

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Topics: Hospitality; hiring and training staff; building workplace culture. ?? While achieving Enlightened Hospitality may seem redundant while you only serve takeout, it should be a core value of your restaurant and hiring process. Published: 2017 ?? Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business. ??

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Feast on Sushi, Steak, and Globalization at Iraq’s American-Themed Buffet

EATER

The restaurant finally opened in December 2017. It has also specifically hired chefs from around the world: Ukraine, Nepal, the Philippines, India, and beyond. (along with the U.K. invasion allowed the KRG to further assert its autonomy. The restaurant’s international offerings go beyond the food. Compared to the U.S.,

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Famous Dave’s: A Quarter Century of BBQ Evolution

Modern Restaurant Management

What are some lessons you have learned along the way you could relate to someone just starting out in the restaurant industry? You used to have to hire an advertising agency to market to your customers. You used to have to hire an advertising agency to market to your customers. How is tech incorporated into operations?

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Starbucks’ Howard Schultz Returns as CEO Amid Union Wave

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The big news of the annual shareholder meeting’s first day was the retirement of Kevin Johnson, who served as CEO of Starbucks since 2017. Even though Starbucks executives haven’t directly discussed the union at the shareholder meeting, they have announced plans to improve wages and do a lot of hiring.

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‘It Was a Losing Fight to Write Anything That Wasn’t “Ethnic”’

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In many cases, the employees’ personalities were turned into their personal brands. It sends an overt message that stepping out as a generalist is hard, and that you will not be hired as such. BIPOC in food media are routinely not considered for assignments about things that don’t directly relate to their ethnicity or race. “I