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Hotel costs: How to reduce expenses and boost revenue

SiteMinder

These costs encompass everything from acquiring the land, architectural designs, and building permits to the actual construction materials, labour, and interior design. Maintenance and Repairs Hotels must be in top condition to ensure guest satisfaction. This means regular maintenance checks and prompt repairs when something goes awry.

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Empowered leaders: Female forces in hospitality and real estate

Boutique Hotel News

As North West area manager, she led the Mayor’s £75 million+ flagship Good Growth Fund, expanding the range of organisations supported to deliver affordable workspace, welcoming community facilities, improved cultural assets and public spaces. Olaide Oboh , director, Socius [GS] Real estate is about people, says Oboh, director at Socius.

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Restaurant Kitchen Design Hacks For An Efficient And Thriving Business

The Restaurant Times

Source: Architecture Design. Instead of a maze-like kitchen with walled-off sections, use an open floor layout to encourage worker connection and communication. It’s important to consider turnaround time and maintenance requirements along with the associated equipment required when designing a commercial kitchen area.

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How we plan agile features without floating over the waterfall

SiteMinder

Experiences like this are etched in the memory of most people who’ve had to work under a waterfall process, and as such it’s not surprising that since agile has became mainstream, most development teams I’ve worked in have chosen to send their tyrant to the guillotine and do away with as much upfront planning and architecture as they can.

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Opera Hotel System Interface - Important Things You Need To Know

Metasphere

Housekeeping and Maintenance - Assign tasks to housekeepers and the maintenance team. Aside from its cloud-based data architecture, Oracle has made integration easier with their Oracle Cloud Marketplace , where hotels can download apps to their PMS in an instant. Now as you may have already figured out.

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Safe Distancing Tech and a Farewell to Foam

Modern Restaurant Management

Contactless Order & Pay can be accessed by guests in three ways without the need to download an app: scanning a QR code, near-field communication (NFC), or visiting a URL on any mobile device. “Sixty percent of customer care communications are now happening outside of normal business hours. Water is dispensed at 0.5