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DECEMBER 3, 2024

The Fischer family opened the Fischer Hotel in Frankenmuth in 1888, and supposedly came up with the concept of the all-you-can-eat fried chicken menu. In 1950, the Zehnder family took over the Fischer Hotel from its original owners and today, both establishments are famous for their fried chicken dinners. In 1928, William Zehnder, Sr.

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The Rail

JANUARY 21, 2025

Example : IHG Hotels & Resorts partnered with Winnow, an AI-powered food waste solution that helps the hotel chain optimize food production across several of their properties. Within a year, the hotel group reduced food waste by 36% in four of its pilot hotels.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Star of the Show: Salted Egg Yolk This centuries-old ingredient has been a staple in traditional Chinese dishes, offering a umami flavor and saltiness, perfect for items like a creamy pasta or topping a Caesar salad and featured on menus including District at Kimpton Shinjuku Tokyo and Bambara at Kimpton Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City.

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Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As the hospitality industry continues to evolve, the dining experience at hotels and resorts has become a crucial element in shaping guest satisfaction. From sustainable practices and health-conscious menus to tech-enhanced dining and global flavors, hotel and resort restaurants are adapting to meet the diverse needs of the modern traveler.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 25, 2024

Legislation that already has nearly enough supporters to pass would essentially require the staffs of third-party managers to be employed wholly or jointly by the host hotel. But that's only a small part of the warranted changes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Restaurants, cafés and hotels are offering premium tea service – and profiting – in 2020. Businesses in the restaurant, café and hotel sector are looking to elevate their tea game in 2020. The success and momentum of these waves is now changing the face of specialty tea in restaurants, cafés and hotels.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 5, 2024

The bar and grill chain said its hotel outlets do better than traditional stores and are more cost-effective to develop.

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Restaurant Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The MINA Group successfully operates over 30 restaurants in hotels, with Orla, the newest, the first to reflect the chef’s Egyptian culinary roots and his new cookbook.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Depending on where youve landed with family and friends, a furnished rental space, or a hotel there will be specific considerations. Be sure to also note if and when breakfast is offered as a hotel amenity and what items are typically served. For me, this was a Dollar Tree right next to the hotel I stayed in after my house fire.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 10, 2020

Does your hotel spend a large portion of its budget marketing a facility or service that cannot be used at the moment? You may be a hotel that is valued for its location. Now is the time to pay more attention to your website, take advantage of the downtime your hotel may have to audit this too. Work on Your Website.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

"It would become more important for restaurants and hotels to work with partners they can trust – ones who have similar values to them. Our hospitality solutions can automate routine tasks, allowing hotel staff to focus on high-value guest interactions. AI is also boosting staff productivity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 28, 2022

Robots are able to improve the guest experience by analysing the online reviews from hotels and restaurants. The company's robots are designed to perform tasks, such as delivering food and drinks to customers at hotels and airport lounges, handling check-in and check-out services at hotels, and even carrying luggage.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 13, 2023

My money is placed on working in a quality hotel, resort, or club. Of course, restaurants are great places to build your bag of tricks, ones where the chef has very high standards and is willing to share, but dollar for dollar, a club, hotel, or resort provides the package with the best value.

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Social Hospitality: Restaurants

AUGUST 13, 2020

While this technology is still not in wide use around the world, there are many reasons hotels , restaurants, and other businesses benefit from the use a virtual receptionist. Having the ability to communicate with various gadgets and control them with the sound of your voice makes a hotel truly stand out in a competitive field.

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Social Hospitality: Restaurants

MARCH 27, 2020

The impact of Coronavirus on restaurants and hotels has been insurmountable. . Let’s focus on steps you can take to market your hotel or restaurant during the coronavirus crisis. Some of the top hotel companies are offering elite status extensions and additional points to users. But where should your marketing dollars go?

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Comfort food, outdoor dining, Riesling and streamlined menus were top trends for 2020, according to Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants ' seventh annual Culinary & Cocktail Trend Forecast for 2021. The Four Month Dry-Aged NY Strip Steak at Citizen Rail at Kimpton Hotel Born in Denver was also a diner favorite. Is Carob a Carb?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 20, 2021

These types of convenient partnerships have carried over in the hotel industry as well. Hospitality tech company Criton has partnered with restaurant tech firm Hungrrr to add a safe, contactless food ordering system to its hotel guest app.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2020

This comprehensive annual report identifies key influences in restaurants, hotels, food, beverage, and hospitality marketing. Offering both convenience and the safety of an in-room workout, hotels will offer rooms with integrated wall mounted home gyms like Mirror and Tonal for a way to work-out without going to the gym. Do The Hustle?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 4, 2020

From reduced hours to limited resources, to complete closures, this global pandemic hasn't spared restaurants and hotels in the slightest. Restaurants or hotels can send out a newsletter, post on social media, as well as display COVID-specific signage in their locations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 10, 2021

Today we will take a look at how disintermediation of the guest has impacted hotels, airlines, real estate, movies, and consumer packaged goods. Fortunately, many other digitally disrupted industries offer key insights on how to navigate the shift.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 21, 2025

I was scrolling through Instagram this morning and came across a post about a sourdough hotel in Sweden where people can leave their sourdough starters to be cared for while they are on vacation. My first reaction was to chuckle at something that seemed a bit nave. I mean how large is the audience for this service?

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

COVID-19 Impact on Hotel & Lodging Sector. The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) released an analysis on the economic and human struggle of the hotel industry six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, with millions of employees still furloughed or laid off and travel demand lagging far behind normal levels.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Consider the fact that kitchens in hotels and restaurants generate about three billion pounds of used cooking oil each year, according to the Environment Protection Agency (EPA). Recycling your restaurant’s used cooking oil isn’t just a way to address your waste problems – it can help fight climate change.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 16, 2025

If there is a hotel full of 300 guests and 25 of them ask for an evening delivery of Taco Bell at different times, just picture how much idling, gas, and emissions these activities use. This reduces your need to offset busy and slow periods of orders as well as the environmental impact of lost food due to timing.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 3, 2023

The front- and back-of-house employees are part of what their union representatives say is the area's largest walkout in decades, with 15,000 workers involved.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Over the course of 111 days, Brian Masilionis, Director, On-Premise Commercial Strategy & National Accounts for Southern Glazer’s, led a team of its industry-leading mixologists to sample more than 400 drinks in 83 restaurants, bars and hotels, compiling their insights to discover emerging cocktail and wine trends across the U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As business owners begin the process of hiring (or, in some cases, re-hiring) employees for their restaurants, bars, hotels, resorts and food services companies, here are five things to focus on: All Hands on Deck. When looking at resumes, don’t rule someone out simply because they don’t have specific hospitality experience.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 5, 2021

My question to you is, how will management of Restaurants, Clubs and Hotels try to provide a sense of balance and wellbeing for the chefs who have the history of working from dawn until well into the night, six and sometimes seven days a week. A well-run hotel or restaurant meets or exceeds standards regardless of a manager’s presence.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2020

The current situation Involving lack of travel, dining out, and attending live entertainment, including sporting events, is of course having an adverse impact on hotels, restaurants and entertainment venues. At this point, the hospitality industry is basically in “survival mode." Restaurants of all sizes have also been hit hard.

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Hospitality Hotels Travel Document 512

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

So where are the servers, the hotel housekeepers, and prep cooks? I am guilty of still fearing indoor dining and wanting to only eat outside and I am that person cleaning a hotel room with antiseptic wipes before touching anything; this is what the industry sees and hears daily. A recent jobs report revealed 6.6

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2021

One hotel in upstate New York increased salaries of kitchen staff to $20 from $12.50 Conventions and meeting spaces, theme parks and hotels, and restaurants are finding it better to reduce indoor seating as it requires too much maintenance and risk. Restaurant and bar employment (as of July 2021) remains down by 1.5

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Whether you sell milk at the corner store or run an entire professional kitchen for a large restaurant or hotel, here are the signs you need a new commercial refrigerator: Leakage and Frost Build-up : This stops food from staying cool and fresh while increasing the risk of bacterial growth.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 8, 2021

This is where restaurant and hotel operators have room to step in. In many restaurants and hotels, there are natural performers who grew up watching the Food Network and can leverage their culinary knowledge on video. Restaurants and hotels can showcase what makes them special. How Hospitality Can Close the Gap.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2020

More than half aren’t willing to travel or spend a night in a hotel in the foreseeable future. Restaurant and Hotel Owners Are Not Prepared. Just a third of people have traveled and spent more than a night from home since March. Less than a fifth of people are willing to travel to a destination with a low number of cases.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 21, 2023

Jean-Georges Director of Restaurants Vincenzo Decaria was raised in Crotone, Italy surrounded by hotels and restaurants. He started in the role of Manager and left for nine months to open The Edition hotel open in Times Square. While studying for a law degree, he worked nights at restaurants and bars.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Computer kiosks take the place of interaction with a smiling employee at the counter, self-service continues to eat away at table service and interaction with those who might explain and upsell, ghost kitchens remind us of the Wizard of Oz hiding behind a curtain, and lo and behold Ive even seen a wine vending machine in a hotel lobby.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 24, 2021

Restaurants and hotels worldwide have come out the other side of the pandemic only to stumble headfirst into the newest obstacle: a staffing shortage. So how does the intelligent restaurant and hotel owner bring in top-tier talent? But this isn’t just your typical staffing shortage. Place Value on a Good Employee.

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