When a crisis hits your hotel property, the first impulse may be to panic. This can often involve a loss or firing of your current management team which, while necessary, leaves the potential for a rudderless ship at the worst time. Under these circumstances, interim hotel management might be an ideal solution. The right interim manager can…
What does a small bar in New York and a big nightclub Las Vegas have to offer as sound ideas for your bar and nightclub business plan? Namely, party booths in the one and taking it back to old fashion basics at the other. Here are some recaps in Nightclub & Bar Magazine and how…
The four key areas to saving a failing foodservice operation that a restaurant turnaround consultant will typically focus on are marketing, money, manpower and management. In any revival or repositioning of a once thriving restaurant, minding the MMMMs is a critical strategy and starts with the most important one: Marketing Restaurant Table SettingWhen customer counts…
The latest statistics published in a special report from Chain Store Guide’s “Chain Restaurant Operators Industry Summary for 2010” point to slow but steady improvement in year over year foodservice sales says this restaurant management expert. Whereas 2009 showed a significant drop over 2008 – 0.5% real growth versus 3.5% – the first half of…
It would be interesting to hear what restaurant expert witness opinions were rendered on the recent Applebee case, if any, that was rejected on appeal to the Supreme Court. The restaurant chain is concerned about the cost ramifications that the lower courts will impose among other issues. In particular and at issue is the separation of…
If you are looking to buy a hotel, the lack of financing for lodging properties is starting to diminish at least with one major bank. Wells Fargo recently announced loan financing options available to hotel owners and investors. It has already closed some loan deals as well. So what is the catch and will you…
Software companies are developing applications that can act as food safety consultants of a sort for smart phones and computer tablets. These apps, which are targeted toward training employees, control and inspections procedures and product sourcing, are gaining interest among restaurateurs and food service operators. At very low costs per app, these instructional aides and…
The holidays are a perfect time to incorporate what is going on with your green restaurant investment programs and to hype it up in your seasonal ads and promotions. Customers are attracted to green and what affects the environment these days. They also want to dine in restaurants that practice sustainability if they know about…
There are more signs this week that big money and hotel investment activity is picking up and will begin to add to more reductions of distressed hotel real estate inventories going into late 2010, according to Perry Group’s Hotel Asset Manager and Hospitality Asset Management specialist. After going dark for most of 2009, hotel sector…
Hotel and leisure advisors at The Lodging Conference in Phoenix, Arizona this month are holding a panel on why now is the time to build a hotel and why it is a good period for new lodging construction. Here are some excerpts from an article previewing it: “Offering a preview of what’s to come, Jim…