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Empowered leaders: Female forces in hospitality and real estate

Boutique Hotel News

Blakeburn relocated to Cornwall in 2000 to join Rick Stein’s Seafood Restaurant before joining the team at Watergate Bay, where she quickly progressed from marketing manager to brand director. She has led projects ranging from renovation of student rooms and amenity spaces to managing large deferred maintenance projects.

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MRM People & Places: Azteca Foods Celebrates 50 Years and State Dish Showdown

Modern Restaurant Management

In 1999, Azteca partnered with a small tortilla company in Spain, building a successful international tortilla company before selling the business in 2015. .” Currently, being honored and displayed at the Smithsonian Institute, Azteca Foods is recognized as a pioneer company for bringing ethnic foods into mainstream American culture.