Hospitality Magazine
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Hospitality insolvencies have surged by over 40 percent between December 2023 and December 2024, according to a new report from Equifax. The Equifax Quarterly Commercial Insights – December 2024 report found that the sector has also seen a spike in auto loan arrears rates, up 43 per cent since December 2023. Meanwhile, overall business credit applications decreased by 3.2 per cent.
MEWS
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Front Desk Team Your front desk team are in direct contact with your guests, so your job as general manager is to do whatever you caH3n to let them focus on creating meaningful moments.
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HotelREZ
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The hospitality industry is more competitive than ever, and independent hotels must embrace the latest technology to maximise their bookings and revenue. A channel manager streamlines online distribution, prevents overbookings, and ensures rate parity across all platforms. In this blog, well explore why a channel manager is essential for independent hotels and how HotelREZs ChannelREZ can revolutionise hotel distribution.
eHotelier
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Managing a profitable hotel is akin to a theatrical production. The hotel staff serve as stagehands and performers while the guests are the audience. Every successful stage production requires cooperation among everyone involved.
Speaker: Jennifer Hill
Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.
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Hospitality Net
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Despite another challenging year in many respects, the global hotel industry remained resilient in 2024. Through November, global hotel demand reached a staggering 4.8 billion room nights, 102 million more than 2023, resulting in Revenue per Available Room (RevPAR) growth of 3.7%. Resort and leisure-heavy markets, which were generally the first to recover following the Covid-19 pandemic, have started to see some normalization in demand.
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Modern Restaurant Management
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
The restaurant industry is facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities in maintaining visibility online, where the majority of local consumers go for information and recommendations. SOCi's 2024 Local Visibility Index (LVI) reveals that the U.S. restaurant industry risks losing approximately $6.9 billion in revenue every year due to inadequate digital engagement across key consumer channels such as search engines, social media platforms, and review sites.
Soft Inn
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Expedia is one of the worlds largest online travel agencies (OTAs), providing hotels with a powerful platform to reach millions of travellers globally. If you're looking to boost your hotels visibility and increase bookings, listing your property on Expedia is a great step forward. This guide will walk you through the process of creating a hotel listing on Expedia and optimizing it for maximum success.
eHotelier
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Whether youre a hotel manager, concierge, or front desk staff, cultivating the right traits can set you apart in this competitive field. Here are the top traits that define exceptional hospitality professionals and why they matter.
Hospitality Magazine
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has hit KRC Pty Ltd, the operators of Black Rock caf The Colonels Son, and its caf manager Rishi Chaudhari with fines totalling $28,171, despite the company’s last minute attempt to backpay the affected staff member. KRC Pty Ltd received a $23,475 penalty while caf manager Rishi Chaudhari received a penalty of $4,696 for underpaying and failing to backpay a full-time cook it employed.
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
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EATER
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
William A. Morgan/Shutterstock Americas Classics honors locally owned restaurants that have timeless appeal and mark the real start of Beards season James Beard Awards season is here! After revealing the long list of 2025 Restaurant and Chef Awards semifinalists last month, today, the foundation names the recipients of its Americas Classics Awards.
Revenue Hub
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
The way travelers search for hotels online is changing. About 30% of travelers prefer to use AI Search to help draft their itineraries. NB: This is an article from Operto Subscribe to our weekly newsletter and stay up to date Traditional search engines like Google are now facing new competition from AI-powered platforms such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and DeepSeek.
eHotelier
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
New research offers a vision of how the metaverse could reshape the tourism experience, highlighting both exciting opportunities for the sector and significant challenges ahead.
Hospitality Magazine
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Lucas Restaurants will open a second Grill Americano location in September this year, but this time, it’s in Sydney. The Melbourne-based hospitality group is growing its Harbour City footprint, which currently consists of Chin Chin in Surry Hills, which opened back in 2017. You’ll find Grill Americano Sydney at No.1 Chifley Square (formerly known as Qantas House) later on this year, with the team focused on preserving the bones of the historic location. “I’ve always had a
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EATER
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
W Studio/Shutterstock Garlic fried rice, shrimp fried rice, golden fried rice, and more Kat Thompson is the associate editor of Eater at Home, covering home cooking and baking, cookbooks, and kitchen gadgets. Fried rice is one of those dishes that doesnt really need a recipe. So often, its all about chucking whatever odds and ends you have in your fridge along with cold, leftover rice and calling it a day.
Hotel Business
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Crowne Plaza by IHG , in partnership with Stylus , has released its second white paper, Leading the Charge in Blended Travel, which unveils a major shift in how people live and work since its 2022 report , particularly as companies embrace the return to office more broadly. Currently, 66% of U.S. and U.K. travelers actively combine business trips with personal leisure time, up from 53% in 2022.
Modern Restaurant Management
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Are your customers always asking to take home some extras of your salsa, BBQ sauce, or house salad dressing? Do you think there might be a market to actually sell it; first at your restaurant and then to local retailers/grocers but you have no idea where do you start? Do you just make “extra batches” and bottle it in your restaurant kitchen and slap a label on it?
Hospitality Magazine
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
One of Australia’s largest artisan baked goods brands Sonoma has acquired Northern Beaches-founded Berkelo Bakery. Berkelo’s footprint currently consists of three stores in Brookvale, Manly, and Mosman, with Sonoma taking over the operations of the business from 20 February. The bakery was founded by Tom Eadie, who will now focus on McCarrs House restaurant in Terrey Hills as well as the development of a Berkelo pasta range. “Im incredibly proud of the bakery business weve buil
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EATER
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Nicole Medina/Eater Keep your blade sharp, your bowl clean, and your motor running A food processor is the ultimate workhorse: It shreds cheese, dices peppers, effortlessly turns chickpeas into a silky hummus, and does it all with an almost smug efficiency. Its the best thing in your kitchen. Until, that is, its time to disassemble and clean it. Cleaning a food processor can be a nightmare wrapped in a puzzle, wrapped in the very real possibility of slicing off a small portion of your hand.
Hotel Business
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Germantown, TN-based McNeill Hotel Company (MHC) has promoted Jesse Kremer from regional director, operations to the new position of VP, hotel operations. In his new role, Kremer leads the regional directors and hotel teams to achieve a balanced scorecard, focusing on associate satisfaction, guest satisfaction, brand initiatives, financial success and owner relations, the company reports.
Revenue Hub
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Do hotels need business intelligence? The immediate answer is no. Many hoteliers do not want to change and happily run their operations to satisfy owners and maintain profitability without changing how decisions are made. NB: This is an article from Demand Calendar Subscribe to our weekly newsletter and stay up to date Unless there’s direct pressure from the owner to increase ROI or a desire from the hotelier to exceed current profit limits, business intelligence might seem unnecessary.
Hospitality Magazine
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Lilianfels Blue Mountains Resort and Spa has reopened its onsite restaurant, Miss Lilian, after it closed at the start of Covid. The owners have relaunched the Asian restaurant with updated interiors and a refreshed menu showcasing Vietnamese, Thai, and Cantonese-inspired dim sum dishes. Nestled among the trees at the edge of Echo Point, the restaurant is an ideal pitstop for those visiting the Three Sisters or the Jamison Valley.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
EATER
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
A last-minute bottle of wine feels boring compared to a pickle crock, pasta-water-scented candle, or whole ham leg Housewarming gifts are tricky. They are tricky by scale: larger than a host gift, smaller than a wedding gift. And they are tricky by kind: housewarming gifts should be practical and also personal both to the person giving the gift and to the household receiving it.
Hotel Business
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
The food service industry is on the brink of a transformation, and at the forefront of this change is Kitchenless, a Swiss-American company that has developed a groundbreaking, kitchen-free food service solution. Mike zkan, founder/CEO, Kitchenless , is leading this innovative shift with a vision to make gourmet dining simpler, more sustainable and more profitable for hospitality providers.
Hospitality Net
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
The hotel distribution landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, one that promises to redefine how properties connect with their guests. For too long, hotels have relied on intermediaries to fill their rooms, ceding control and a substantial chunk of revenue in the process. But as the industry evolves, so do the opportunities to reclaim the guest relationship and build a smarter, more sustainable model for growth.
Hospitality Magazine
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Following Luke Mangans departure from head chef role at the end of 2024, Natalie Murphy has taken over the helm at Glass Brasserie. Murphy began her career at the age of 19 as a junior at Glass Brasserie, where she worked up to head pastry chef, before becoming chef de cuisine in January 2024. Now as head chef, she is revising and modernising the menu, placing emphasis on share-style options with simplicity in mind to allow the produce to shine through.
Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader
In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a
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