I found my White Whale… now what? 1940s – 1990s (a guess) Pre-internet out of print Las Vegas bartender book with endless drink variants. It’s unreal, it’s as good as I remember, and can I republish a book lost to time for no profit? A few pages of photos to show variant cocktails, etc. I…
Hospitality & Service’s existential crisis: The staffing pandemic: being incapable of filling jobs or finding bodies to hire, ALL 50+ STATES EDITION
We’ll start here, funny but not funny: Restaurant owner offers job to burglar instead of pressing charges https://www.wabi.tv/2021/04/08/restaurant-owner-offers-job-to-burglar-instead-of-pressing-charges/ But let’s get real: I should prob add an addendum to last night’s thread: I mentioned how many people are quitting/leaving rn. Wanna know why? Overwhelmingly, among everyone I talk to, it’s b/c of how they’re being treated…
Willamette Valley Winery map layers
So, the buzzwords and gossip talk for hotel marketing is that people want authentic, personalized experiences, and itineraries that match their mood or proclivities. It seems the rancor for packages (not from guests, but from PR and Marketing) are falling out of favor for finely tuned itineraries that meet people in their own idiom, style,…
Giant tech and their “hacker”-solutions to everything, without actually consulting businesses. Being upset isn’t the right move.
So we know there’s “Hacker-Fares” on Kayak. Not too big a deal, considering that airlines are a commodity, and they don’t care if you book one way, round trip, etc. They’ve got their game, and you can play by it, or fly another airline. Kayak realized that, and created a service for users that further…
Re: Wired article, “Welcome to the Future, Please Enjoy Your Stay” ie Robot Hotels
The experience of talking to a human is not necessarily insincere. They’re paid to do their job… they’re not going to be disingenuously nice to a mean person, for example. The experience of humans