Plant-based dining is a global movement growing at warp speed. In 2020, plant-based food sales grew twice as fast as overall food sales. Vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian, discover the key to plant-based menu creation that is just as creative and approachable for strict vegans as well as flexitarians, alike. Learn how a hotel's dining experience can be both satisfying and sustainable. READ MORE

How did you hospitality environment fair during COVID and more importantly coming out the other side, many were battered, bruised and none were left unscathed. As many did we tried to look toward a similar situation from the past in desperate ability to assimilate with some event which could have come close to the COVID era, but there was none. For the foodservice industry it was all new territory where participants were to adapt and move on or be left behind, this is how our organization adapted. READ MORE

The focus of this piece is about how to implement diversity at the CEO level when owning a hotel and whether a CEO's diversity agenda should include the Board and Human Resources leader, and how to build a strong diversity department in the corporate office. With diversity data, sharing employee-volunteered data with all levels of the organization and franchised properties is the best way to go. READ MORE

Over the past year, brand franchisors modified F&B standards to help hotel owners and operators lower expenses. Some owners hope leniency with regard to standards will continue. Yet guests were generally unhappy with the changes, especially the reduction (or elimination of) complimentary breakfast at limited-service hotels. As we move into a new normal, franchisors and hoteliers must take guest expectations-and the competition-into account before making pandemic-related changes to F&B permanent READ MORE

How do food and beverage operations at Celebrity differ from operations in a typical high-end hotel or restaurant you might ask? The answer is, there are more similarities than there are differences and at the end of the day we are not in the cruise business….we are in the hospitality business. The people business. The business of creating long lasting memories and world class pleasurable experiences. READ MORE