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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.

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HBX Group marks start of new era for Hotelbeds

Hotel Owner

“We have completely rebuilt our tech stack over the past year to support this shift and better serve our clients and partners by improving our reliability and number of self-service tools to maintain our market position.” We have offered hotels since our inception in 2001, later adding car hire, transfers and attractions.

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Experience Is the Best Teacher: Five Things My Father — and Hard Times — Have Taught Me About Leadership in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

My wife and I founded Rib & Chop House in Livingston, Montana, in 2001, just months prior to the heartbreaking events of 9/11. We also sent our marketing teams to contact large businesses, hospitals, manufacturing plants, and schools to find out if we could help with food and catering.

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In Defense of Prunes

EATER

In 2001, California Prunes rebranded to California Dried Plums in the hopes of reminding consumers of the prune’s origins as the far less maligned plum. Unfortunately, despite nearly two decades of marketing, dried plums never gained traction in the way the board wanted them to, and in 2019 the board reverted back to its original moniker.

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‘Martha Stewart’s Christmas’ Was a Book, a Fantasia, and a Target

EATER

Before Stewart started writing books, she was a caterer. She quit after a downturn in the market in 1974 and retreated to Connecticut. But, as Judith Shulevitz pointed out in a 2001 New York Times essay , “the very over-the-top-ness of Martha’s productions testifies to her deep understanding of the holiday. It all fits.

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America Loves Gas Station Snacks. Here Are Some of the Finest by Region

EATER

Though the ones from Lasyone’s are the most sought after by non-natives, they can also be found at gas stations in town like the French Market Express on University Parkway. Today you can buy full hummus gift baskets and catering trays from the Sunoco, no top-off required. Clair Lorell. Fried Shrimp Po’ Boy, Louisiana. Susan Stapleton.

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How the Home Pantry Got Cheffy

EATER

A few restaurant products currently on the market. | Carbone Fine Foods offers the restaurant group’s tomato sauces, the marketing language pinpointing the motivation for consumers: that they “will transport you to the iconic New York City restaurant without having to worry about getting a reservation — or even leaving your home.”.