Wed.Jul 19, 2023

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Franchising in the Metaverse: With Great Promise Comes Great Responsibility

Modern Restaurant Management

The "metaverse" is a general term used to describe any of the virtual universes where people can interact with one another in a shared, immersive environment. With the growth of both virtual reality and augmented reality technologies, more and more people are engaging with the metaverse to do things like play games, shop, and even get married.

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5 tech things: Chartwells looks to add more automated pizzerias to campuses

Food Management

This and Chipotle using a robot to speed up guacamole production are some of the tech-related developments you may have missed recently.

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Are You Reviewing Financial KPIs For Your Hotel Regularly?

Hospitality Net

Do you know if your hotel is performing at the highest level? Are you missing out on opportunities? Are there changes that can be made that will quickly improve the bottom line?

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TGI Fridays opens renovated DFW airport site with expanded to-go area

Food Management

Casual-dining brand re-opens unit with larger bar, more seats and beefed up ‘On the Fly’ to-go offerings

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Hilton Celebrates 6th Consecutive Year Ranked as a Best Place to Work for Millennials

Hospitality Net

Hilton (NYSE: HLT) announced today that it has been ranked as #4 on the Best Workplaces™ for Millennials in the U.S. list by Great Place to Work®. This is the sixth consecutive year Hilton’s millennial team members have rated the hospitality leader among the best employers for their generation.

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SQF Earns Recognition by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration  - FDA FSMA Preventative Controls of Human Food Rule.

SQF Institute

Food Manufacturers enthusiastically welcome the recent acknowledgment by the US Food and Drug Administration of the SQF program for its alignment with the FDA FSMA Preventive Controls for Human Food (PCHF) rule.

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Sky’s the Limit: First Four Seasons Private Jet Itineraries for 2025 Revealed

Hospitality Net

Today’s luxury travellers are looking to see and do it all – and to do so exceptionally. The Four Seasons Private Jet Experience is the ultimate opportunity to travel the world in luxurious style. All-encompassing itineraries invite families, friends and individuals to discover fascinating locales and cultures, and to see the world’s most popular destinations in new and unexpected ways – all seamlessly planned by Four Seasons experts and delivered with warmth and care.

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Why McAlister's is betting on breakfast catering

Fast Casual

The goals for McAlister's breakfast catering relaunch were to create exciting choices without adding new SKUs and to tackle packaging with supply chain partners for a breakfast bar approach.

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Hotel Omnichannel Marketing vs. Multichannel Marketing Explained

Hospitality Net

The many ways consumers interact with hotels today are vast and diverse. From browsing social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook on smartphones to watching captivating YouTube videos on tablets, or even stumbling upon a hotel’s website through a search engine query on a desktop computer, the avenues for hotel discovery are ever-expanding.

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Food truck POS: The one-stop solution for all type of food trucks

Lithos POS

Did you know that food trucks are one of the most lucrative businesses? An essential benefit of the food truck industry is its flexibility in terms of location. they can go where they want and do business. But it is essential to find the right place to do business. Managing the business will be challenging. Especially if you are a one-man business. You may not be able to efficiently maintain all business functions like inventory management, payment transactions, and customer and employee managem

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Tripadvisor launches AI-powered travel planning product

Hospitality Net

Tripadvisor®, the world’s largest travel guidance platform, announces a significant upgrade to Trips - its core trip planning product - with the introduction of a new AI-powered travel itinerary generator.

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Packaged Food Design: Enhance Brand Sales

NewPoint Marketing

The Power of Great Packaged Food Design: Enhancing Your Sales and Brand Identity Developing a distinctive, engaging packaged food design that aligns with the brand’s identity is critical to stand out in the highly competitive world of food manufacturing. How NewPoint Marketing Approaches Packaged Food Design Make a Lasting Initial Impression: Your product’s packaging […] The post Packaged Food Design: Enhance Brand Sales appeared first on NewPoint Marketing.

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Mandarin Oriental Announces a New Hotel and Branded Residences in Brickell Key, Miami

Hospitality Net

Mandarin Oriental has announced an agreement to manage a new Mandarin Oriental hotel and branded residences in Brickell Key, Miami one of the city’s most prestigious neighbourhoods.

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Gaining Labor Savings With Food Prep Equipment

Hobart

In kitchens across the country, staffing continues to be a challenge for restaurants of all sizes — and owner operators are looking for creative solutions to do more with less. Some larger chain restaurants are turning to automation to help address labor constraints. This equipment can complete tasks ranging from making pizzas to flipping burgers and brewing coffee.

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Ruby opens new hotel in Notting Hill

Hospitality Net

Ruby Zoe is the 16th hotel in Europe of the Munich group around founder and CEO Michael Struck. The 173 rooms are spread over six floors of a new building with a total area of 6,860 sq ft., directly on Notting Hill Gate, a few minutes’ walk from the famous Portobello Road.

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Capitalize on the Surge in Snacking With These 3 Insights

Let's Chat Snacks

The latest data reports daily snacking is on the rise. According to the 2023 Food and Health Survey by Food Insight , there has been no post-pandemic let up in the frequency of snacking, as levels remain elevated for the second straight year. Seven in ten Americans (72%) snack at least once a day in addition to their main meals, a finding consistent with last year’s results from the same study.

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CoMMingle Launches Review Management and Social Media Services for Restaurants

Hospitality Net

Lodging Interactive, an award-winning digital marketing, reputation management, and social media engagement agency exclusively serving the hospitality industry since 2001, is excited to announce the expansion of its flagship product, CoMMingle:Engage, to cater specifically to the restaurant industry. CoMMingle:Engage, the preferred solution for hotel customer review response and social media marketing, now offers its customer engagement services to meet the unique needs of restaurants.

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Frozen Fruit Bars Recalled for Undeclared Allergens

Penn State Food Safety Blog

Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, Inc. is voluntarily recalling a limited number of its Outshine No Sugar Added Strawberry Fruit Bars that may contain an undeclared milk allergen. The company is recalling this product because it may contain trace amounts of milk. Although the investigation is ongoing, they believe a faulty valve allowed trace levels of milk to be introduced into the product.

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Ennismore Announces 25hours hotel in Jakarta - Opening Late 2023

Hospitality Net

In a collaborative endeavor with Agung Sedayu Group, Ennismore is gearing up to introduce 25hours Hotel The Oddbird, housed in the aesthetically compelling building, District 8. The Swedish creative studio, Stylt, in conjunction with the brand team, is dedicated to crafting a hotel design that embodies the idiosyncratic flair of 25hours.

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FDA Acknowledges There Is Alignment of 3rd Party Audit Standards with FSMA Regulations

Penn State Food Safety Blog

FDA released results of their evaluation of 3rd party audit standards to assess whether those standards are in alignment with FDA FSMA regulations. FDA finding of alignment indicates that the relevant technical components of the PC Human Food or Produce Safety rules have been addressed. Why is this important? "Under FSMA, the PC Human Food rule, Preventive Controls for Animal Food (PC Animal Food) rule, and Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP) rule – allow for third-party audits to be u

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Under Canvas North Yellowstone – Paradise Valley Now Open

Hospitality Net

Under Canvas - the leader in upscale, outdoor hospitality - announced today that its 11th camp, in Paradise Valley, Montana, is now open. Located on 50 acres of picturesque ranchland near the north entrance of Yellowstone National Park, only 20 minutes from the charming town of Livingston and 45 minutes from Bozeman, MT, Under Canvas North Yellowstone - Paradise Valley is the brand’s second camp near Yellowstone National Park and its third in Montana overall.

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DC Establishment Recalls Tubs of Spicy Hummus for Undeclared Sesame After Incorrect Lid Applied

Penn State Food Safety Blog

Cava Foods, Inc., a subsidiary of Cava Group, Inc. in Washington D.C., is issuing a voluntary recall of one lot of its packaged CAVA Spicy Hummus due to the potential for the product to contain undeclared sesame, which is a food allergen. CAVA voluntarily initiated the recall after a single retail store notified the company that packaging lids for CAVA Spicy Labneh (which do not declare sesame as an ingredient) were applied to containers of Spicy Hummus, which contains sesame, a common allergen.

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The UK’s Largest Hotel Brand Premier Inn Partners with Katanox to Accelerate Corporate Travel Growth

Hospitality Net

Katanox, the travel accommodation distribution and fintech platform, announced today its partnership with leading Budget Hotel Brand Premier Inn.

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Ohio Firm Recalls Cashew Butter After Product Found to Contain Peanuts or Almonds

Penn State Food Safety Blog

Heinen’s of Warrensville Heights, OH is voluntarily recalling Heinen’s Fresh Ground Cashew Butter, due to the possibility that it may contain undeclared Peanuts or Almonds. The recall was initiated after it was discovered that product containing Peanuts or Almonds was distributed in Fresh Ground Cashew Butter Containers that did not reveal the presence of additional allergens.

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Eagle Ford Shale: Recent Upticks in Production and Lodging Performance

Hospitality Net

The Eagle Ford Shale market has faced rising costs, a frenzy of mergers and acquisitions, and recessionary concerns since late 2022. Nevertheless, drilling activity within the area has become profitable again for most oil and gas operators and lodging properties that house oilfield workers.

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Meeting Expectations Versus Managing Hope

Hospitality Net

At a recent customer service presentation, the speaker who preceded me said that we must do better than simply meeting our customers’ expectations, and he shared some stories of truly amazing service experiences. Then it was my turn to speak. I didn’t want to contradict him, but I needed the audience to understand that it is impossible to go above and beyond with customers at every interaction.

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Accor CEO: ’Impossible’ to Segregate Leisure and Business Travel

Hospitality Net

Addressing the evolving needs of the hospitality industry will require embracing bleisure travel, as business and leisure are now "impossible" to segregate, Accor Group chairman and CEO Sébastien Bazin said during the hotel company’s 2023 Global Meeting Exchange in Paris.

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Azora Secures €270 Million for New South European Focussed Multi-Strategy Vehicle

Hospitality Net

Azora announces that it has launched a new European multi-strategy vehicle having raised €270 million in equity commitments from a leading sovereign wealth fund, giving it a total investment capacity of up to €500 million.

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