hotel dining
New F&B Trends for Fall 2024 Look Back at the Old
Adam and Larry Mogelonsky | August 28, 2024
By Adam and Larry Mogelonsky Heading into Labor Day, it’s time to think about for what will be on the plate for next year’s barbecue to end out the summer. As any hotelier or restaurateur knows, dietary trends ebb and flow, shaping our menus and dining habits over time. Where once low-fat dominated the scene, today’s focus has shifted to low-carb options aimed at managing insulin spikes. Classic continental breakfasts still grace our tables, but they now sit alongside trendy choices like avocado toast, overnight oats, and superfood smoothies. For those less versed in nutritional science, these shifts might seem arbitrary, yet each n...
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...
Oliver & Bonacini Hospitality Transitions All Restaurants, Catering, and Entertainment Venues Across Canada to Silverware POS
Silverware | May 21, 2024
The diverse portfolio of innovative dining experiences is now self-managing and maintaining their point-of-sale systems with upgrades that include mobile and online ordering and scan & pay for contactless payments Markham, Ontario, May 21, 2024—With an immediate need to update and standardize its point-of-sale systems across 30 restaurants plus event venues and other partners, and enable corporate to self-manage and maintain all systems, Oliver & Bonacini Hospitality (O&B) has transitioned to Silverware POS. Trusted by the most notable brands around the globe, Silverware develops enterprise point-of-sale solutions for larg...
Breakfast Is King: Elevating the Guest Experience through F&B Innovations
Court Williams | August 14, 2023
By Court Williams Food and beverage (F&B) services are now integral to the hotel guest experience, extending beyond mere sustenance to create memorable moments and elevate the overall stay. Gone are the days when hotel restaurants were loss leaders, primarily serving the needs of in-house guests. F&B has emerged as a profit center, with proactive and innovative approaches driving its success. The Power of Innovative F&B Today’s hotel guests expect more than just a place to rest. They want intriguing and Instagrammable moments extending to the dining table, community spaces, and overall experience. Hotels recognize the power...
Where Have All the Breadbaskets Gone?
Larry and Adam Mogelonsky | November 10, 2021
By Larry and Adam Mogelonsky Before the pandemic, it was quite customary in restaurants to whet the appetite with the tableside delivery of a breadbasket, or some variation of a small loaf of bread, as a welcome to the establishment. There has always been a positive symbolism with this act, as breaking bread not only increases meal satisfaction by alleviating any hunger pangs but also implies a deeper sense of trust and camaraderie. There’s more here on the psychological and monetary front. The bread serves as a timing delay tactic, giving the kitchen more time to prepare the selected appetizers and mains while simultaneously easing t...
Hospitality Financial Leadership: Duty Meals
David Lund | January 20, 2020
By David Lund Recently I attended a hotel association conference where I was a speaker for one of their breakout sessions. The opening morning of the convention started with a breakfast where we listened to the many great developments within the association in the past year and heard a fantastic story from the morning keynote about evacuating an entire city without one casualty or serious injury from an oncoming forest fire. What a morning! But the thing that got me more that anything else that day was a memory. The memory of being in that very room some 35 years earlier having breakfast all by myself. You see it was the hotel and dinin...
Hotels Transform Dining Options for Time-Pressed Travelers
Kacey Bradley | February 11, 2019
One challenge frequent travelers have to deal with is figuring out how they'll eat while they're on a trip. Whether they're away on a family vacation or a work trip, at some point they'll need to eat and head out to their next stop. It's something that's easier to solve while out in a city that could have a fast food joint right around the corner, but then there are the moments where fast food doesn't work. Guests might realize they've become hungry once it's late at night and they've already settled into their room. Hotels are always looking for the next innovative way they can meet the needs of ...
Gastronomic Trends: Veganism – Gastronomic Movement or Lifestyle Choice?
April 27, 2017
Veganism has never been so big, and is one of the most famous current gastronomic trends of the moment. Understand more about this concept and why it may be both a gastronomic movement and lifestyle choice. WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT VEGANISM? Veganism is a term now tossed about freely by adherents from various backgrounds and all ages, including teenagers and millennials.It may even be close to becoming a gastronomic movement, if one considers its origins. Although the term was coined in 1944, the concept of veganism has roots going back to both ancient Indian and early Eastern Mediterranean societies. Veganism is in general considered to be ...
