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GMs - How User Generated Review Sites Can Make you a Better Manager! - By Carol Verret
User generated review sites are the ultimate mystery shopping experience - only they are free! This is the guest speaking directly to you and the staff - this is better than a comment card. It is easy to be critical of the review sites just as the industry has had a love/hate relationship with the online travel agencies.
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Social Media Scrutiny - Is The Sky Really Falling? - By Neil Salerno
There's a lot being written lately about Social Media. Some people talk about it like it's something new, but, social media have been with us for several years, does anyone remember AOL?
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Destination 'Demand Generators' Require Partnerships, Not Agendas - By J. Ragsdale Hendrie
'Demand Generators'. What a wonderful phrase, coined by Jonathan Tisch, Chairman and CEO of Loewes Hotels. He was referring to what drives Visitors to our Destinations, in this case New York City, but applicable anywhere.
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Food & Beverage - Hidden Profit Potential - By Joe Dunbar
A quickOne sure way to a lower food cost percentage is a strategic menu price hike. If you need to disguise this activity, find all the top sellers (by count) hidden in your product mix. Look for soft drinks, coffee and tea, side salads, add-ons, substitutes and extras. Check the all modifiers with high counts and little or zero sales. way to attack food cost issues in almost any operation is through a simple menu upgrade. Rather than attacking entrees, take a hard look at your sides. A few mouth watering sides prepared with less costly ingredients will boost profits every time.
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Restaurant Resource Group
Making a profit in the restaurant business is a challenge. We know first hand, having created and operated many restaurants over the last twenty-five years. Adequate sales, experience, and capital can help, but without solid financial and operational controls in place, long-term success is not assured. That's why the The Restaurant Resource Group was created.... to empower restaurant operators by providing these "controls" in the form of simple, yet powerful, financial and management products and services.
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Premier Bathtub & Ceramic Tile Refinishing. Countertops, Sinks and Vanities repaired/refinished. Imitation Stone Finishes. Swimming Pool Restoration, Decorative Concrete and Non-Slip floor/deck coatings. Serving GA, AL, SC & TN since 1996.
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Global Finance Global Finance has been providing monthly news and analysis since 1987 about companies and financial institutions that do business around the world.
Global Finance delivers the full story; corporate finance, joint ventures and M&A, country profiles, capital markets, investor relations, currencies, banking, risk management, custody, direct investment, money management and all the rest-specifically tailored for corporate readers around the world.
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Accounting for Hospitality Managers
Those learning about hospitality accounting at the supervisory and managerial level will appreciate this textbook. This edition features NEW chapters on Budgeting Expenses, Forecasting Sales, Budgetary Reporting and Analysis, and Financial Decision Making. Unique features include a chapter on interim and annual reports, presentations of computerized regression analysis using readily available spreadsheet software; and discussion of such topics as open/close for the off-season, business acquisition, and vehicle leasing.
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