hospitality

New Businesses Give Restaurant Workers The Tips They Ache For: Wellness

By editor • May 9, 2017

Casey Raub can easily deadlift over 100 pounds — not thanks to the gym, but from his work as a bartender at ever-packed Brooklyn brunch hotspot Five Leaves. Raub, 35, regularly hoists heavy boxes of liquor and massive buckets of ice for an endless stream of gin gimlets and grapefruit margaritas. Two and a half years ago, he was injured in a cycling accident, and his work routine only compounded his back pain.

The Sunshine Economy: Tax Money for Tourism

By • Mar 6, 2017
Tom Hudson

A Miami-based rapper. A second-tier English soccer club and a sports car racing team.

 

What ties them together is Visit Florida, the state group that markets Florida to tourists across the country and across the globe. What also ties these three together is they provided the ammunition for opponents of using taxpayer money to promote tourism.

 

The Sunshine Economy: Royal Caribbean International CEO on Cruising, Customers and Cuba

By • Nov 21, 2016
Tom Hudson

During the Great Recession, the cruise industry canceled or postponed building and introducing new cruise liners trying to conserve cash as passenger traffic was hurt by the sour economy. Now, those ships are entering the oceans and many of them have South Florida ports of call.

 

FIU On The Forefront Of Hospitality Training

By , , & Paul Leary • Feb 20, 2014
twitter.com/FIUHospitality

02/20/14 - 1:30 -Syndicated food columnist Linda Gassenheimer, Special wine correspondent Fred Tasker and WLRN hosts Joseph Cooper and Bonnie Berman interview Mike Hampton Dean of the Chaplin School of Hospitality at FIU.   Hospitality is an important part of our economy and FIU is on the forefront of new ideas and training for the industry. 

A Rollicking, Eye-opening Look Of A Life Spent (and Misspent) In The Hotel Industry

By , & Paul Leary • Aug 8, 2013
http://jacobtomsky.com/

08/08/13 - Thursday’s Topical Currents begins with luxury hotel employee Jacob Tomsky, author of the hotel memoir HEADS IN BEDS.  He started as a parking valet, and then managed housekeeping at a top New York City hotel, before going behind the front desk. He has many tales to tell:  from how to get free movies in your room, or ransack the mini-bar at no charge.  Want a room upgrade?  Give a nice tip upon check-in. And more . . .