Hilton Plays Matchmaker To Hotels Looking For Food & Beverage Concepts
In the next few days, Hilton Worldwide will launch a new web-based service to help its hotel owners find the best restaurant concepts for their properties. The website www.hiltonrestaurantconcepts.com acts as a matchmaker between owners and restaurant companies with concepts that can work in one of Hilton’s full-service brands. The site launches with 15 companies, including such well-known foodservice brands as Ruth’s Chris, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Mitchell’s Fish Market and others. ...
Sage Hospitality Partners in Higher Education in Denver
Some lodging companies, like Sage Hospitality, recognize the future health of the hospitality industry rests with the quality of the education system serving it. As a way to bring life to that philosophy, Sage is partnering with Metropolitan State College in its home city of Denver on an intriguing, if not unique, project that combines academics with real-world hotel and f&b experience for MSC’s 500-plus hospitality majors....
Products Jan. 15, 2011
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Russell Launches Music-Driven Hotel Chain
Serial brand creator John Russell has done it again. Russell, along with group of hotel industry veterans and in conjunction with Indian and Brazilian investors, debuted his latest brand, MODO Hotel, at this week’s Americas Lodging Investment Summit in San Diego....
Nissenbaum Raises Bar at Peninsula Beverly Hills
Near the corner of Santa Monica and Wilshire Boulevards, banners attached to lampposts encourage people to ‘Celebrate 90210.’ The prestigious postal code is sufficient to identify the classy, cultured community of Beverly Hills to visitors from around the world. Just a few yards away, behind walls designed to keep away the paparazzi, the Peninsula Beverly Hills ...
Gaylord Opryland Welcomes Back Meeting Planners
In a city where a hotel grand reopening makes the front page of the newspaper and headlines the evening news, Nashville warmly welcomed back the Gaylord Opryland Hotel. The hotel officially reopened on Nov. 19, after devastating floods last May closed its doors for more than six months....
Best Western Details Moves Beyond Descriptors
Creating descriptors or tiers to help consumers understand Best Western’s diverse group of hotels has long been discussed and debated, but always considered an impossible mission. This week in Vancouver at Best Western’s annual convention—aptly titled “Mission Possible”—executives took the stage and were able to talk about executing the strategy rather than selling it....
IHG Plans More Holiday Inn Upgrades
While the Holiday Inn system nears completion of its massive $1-billion relaunch of the brand, it’s already looking ahead. At last week’s IHG Americas owners and operators conference in Las Vegas, officials unveiled preliminary plans to overhaul the brand’s public spaces and food and beverage concepts....
DH&R Creates Fun, Healthy Kids’ Menu
Being the father of two young daughters and an executive with Destination Hotels & Resorts, Mark Hickey has traveled enough to know the standard items on a children’s menu: chicken fingers, hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza and macaroni and cheese. ...
