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The Next Frontier for Restaurants: The Hotel Lobby

Modern Restaurant Management

Other restaurants turned to hotels to attract new customers and strengthen their existing customer base. Long before the pandemic, hoteliers were looking for ways to refresh their properties' food and beverage offerings, and the pandemic presented the ideal opportunity for restaurants to enter the hotel sphere.

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KITCHEN LIFE & CAREER

Culinary Cues

From my experience, the best approach towards building your chops, filling your portfolio with skills, knowledge, and the ability to adjust to varying challenges in the kitchen begins with time in a busy full-service hotel, resort, or club kitchen.

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Book Dinner and a Room at Paris’s Best Hotel Restaurants

EATER

The Travel buds Grand hotels are home to some of the French capitals most exciting and elegant meals, according to Eaters local dining expert and guidebook author Hotel restaurants tend to have a special energy. Thomas Tissandier Inside Citrons et Hutres.

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IMMIGRATION AND THE BUSINESS OF FOOD

Culinary Cues

Those hotels that you stay in on vacation and for business rely on migrant workers to clean rooms, scrub bathrooms, vacuum common areas, cut lawns and manicure shrubbery, sweep parking lots and clean pools. How do you think hotels will survive without immigrant workers? I am not here to agree or disagree, but to pose a question.

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Maximizing F&B Revenue: Why Hotels Should Embrace RevPAG 

Modern Restaurant Management

For decades, the hotel industry has relied on Revenue Per Available Room (RevPAR) as its primary performance indicator. While RevPAR remains a valuable metric for room performance, it proves inadequate in capturing the comprehensive financial health of a hotel, particularly with respect to evaluating F&B operations.

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The Strain of Success: How the Labor Shortage Is Affecting America’s Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

While the rate of job openings for hotels and restaurants has fallen recently, the restaurant sector is struggling to fill positions, reflecting a deeper issue within the labor market. That means if every job seeker were hired, a million positions would remain unfilled.

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Father, Son, Franchisees: Building a Business and Bonds Across Generations

Modern Restaurant Management

Fom Entrepreneur to Franchise Family Our family has always built things — from auto parts to hotels to housing developments — but food franchising has become the heart of what we do. We’ve each found a lane based on our strengths, and that’s been key to our growth.