food &beverage
BirchStreet Extends Partnership With Sodexo North America as Preferred Procure-to-Pay Technology Partner
BirchStreet Systems | October 29, 2024
Renewed strategic partnership agreement highlights continued trust and innovation LAS VEGAS – October 29th, 2024 - BirchStreet Systems, a leading provider of cloud-based procure-to-pay solutions for the hospitality industry, announces the extension of a partnership agreement with Sodexo North America, a leading provider of sustainable food and integrated facilities management. The renewed multi-year agreement highlights the ongoing relationship between two companies, reinforcing the trust and collaboration built over the years. BirchStreet Systems has been one of Sodexo North America’s partners of choice for many years, currently servic...
Marriott International Announces 2024 Winners of Masters of the Craft Competition, Adds New Pastry Category
Marriott International, Inc. | September 17, 2024
Marriott International announced the winners of Masters of the Craft, a culinary, beverage and pastry competition designed to foster creativity and innovation while highlighting exceptional chefs and bartenders within the company’s food, beverage and pastry community. Adding pastry to the competition brought attention to a space that has extraordinary talent across the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio of brands. Over the past three months, over 1,600 exceptional culinary, pastry and beverage professionals from 181 Marriott Bonvoy properties across the U.S. & Canada competed in local and regional Masters of the Craft competitions to prove t...
Shiji Introduces Seamless Integration With Wi-Q for Enhanced Mobile Ordering
Shiji | August 7, 2024
Adding additional mobile ordering options to Shiji’s Infrasys Cloud POS boosts F&B efficiency, enhances guest experiences, and streamlines operations for hoteliers. ATLANTA, Georgia, United States, August 7, 2024 – Shiji, the global leader in hospitality technology, is thrilled to announce the seamless integration of its Infrasys Cloud POS with Wi-Q, a leading mobile ordering platform for the hospitality industry. The integration facilitates a smooth and unified experience for both guests and hotel operators, significantly simplifying the ordering process and optimizing menu management. With the robust open API capability t...
Rethinking Menu Ingredients to Ramp Up Guest Nutrition
Adam and Larry Mogelonsky | July 17, 2024
By Adam and Larry Mogelonsky Food menus need to evolve in order to keep pace with the trends so that hotels can continue to attract diners and use their restaurants as a key draw for overnight guests. One of the trends is that menus are becoming healthier and healthier over time. Whether that’s adding vegan options, reducing the amount of deep-fried items or using better quality cooking oils – in particular, excluding harmful seed oils – the demand for healthier plates is there. Nowhere better emphasizes this than all the marketing hoi polloi around all the purported superfoods – acai, kale and all the fun, new adaptogenic mushr...
IRIS F&B Mobile Ordering Now Available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace
IRIS | July 2, 2024
Available through the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, IRIS F&B Mobile Ordering integrates with Oracle Simphony Cloud to enhance F&B operations with a near-seamless and convenient way for guests to order F&B online on their own device, anywhere, anytime. London, 2nd July 2024 – IRIS, a leading provider of digital F&B and guest experience platforms for the hospitality sector and a member of Oracle Partner Network (OPN), today announced F&B Mobile Ordering is available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace and can be integrated with Oracle Simphony Cloud using Transaction Services API Gen2 (STSG2). This follows their position as a certi...
Hotels Should Seriously Look at the Alcohol Alternatives Category
Adam and Larry Mogelonsky | April 10, 2024
By Adam Mogelonsky, Larry Mogelonsky As restaurateurs and hoteliers, you bear a significant responsibility to ensure the safety of your guests, particularly in preventing drunk driving. The legal ramifications of such incidents are substantial. However, there is encouraging news: alternatives to alcoholic beverages are becoming increasingly available, diverse in quality, and popular among consumers. Simultaneously, there's a growing trend of people abstaining from alcohol either entirely or by reducing their consumption frequency per week. Whether motivated by health concerns or other reasons, such patrons often seek options beyond trad...
Building a Must-Experience Hotel Restaurant That Builds Loyalty and Drives Revenue
Kai Urban | February 22, 2024
By Kai Urban, Director of Food & Beverage, Hilton Anaheim Key pillars of a profitable and successful hotel restaurant include enhancing guest experience while ensuring operational efficiencies. Hotel executives must navigate through the nuances of creating the right ambiance for the respective market and audience and address marketing, branding, and leveraging technology. To build and foster a stellar reputation as a hotel restaurant takes adapting to market trends and ultimately positioning itself as an indispensable asset in the competitive hospitality landscape. Beyond the rooms, Hilton Anaheim is known for an array of amenities...
Hilton and the James Beard Foundation Evolve Partnership in Year Two, Honoring Excellence in Food and Beverage at the 2024 James Beard Awards
Hilton | January 26, 2024
Amplified partnership champions Hilton’s ongoing commitment to food & beverage innovation and culinary talent MCLEAN, Va. – Hilton today announced an expanded partnership with the James Beard Foundation, serving as an In-Association Sponsor of the 2024 James Beard Awards and Presenting Sponsor of the James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards Outstanding Chef category. Following last year’s industry-leading partnership as the first global hospitality company to sponsor the Outstanding Bar category, this renewed support underscores Hilton's ongoing innovation in food and beverage and, this year, puts the spotlight on top-tier culinar...
