- 10/1/2007
While enjoying an entirely devilish flourless chocolate torte over lunch at last month's Restaurant Executive Summit, a conversation sprung up about proposed government legislation that would require restaurants to make nutritional information available to guests; and it doesn't stop there. The push to ban ingredients containing trans-fats is gaining momentum, with legislation proposed in 16 states.
- 9/1/2007
Not since April 22, 1970, when 20 million Americans took to the streets to protest for a cleaner environment has "going green" be so en vogue.
- 7/1/2007
For the past three years, Hospitality Technology has published an annual Point of Sale Software Scoreboard with its July/August issue. The Scoreboard is based on results of a survey that asks HT readers and other IT users to evaluate POS software systems on a variety of criteria.
- 6/1/2007
No one loves a fast, sporty car more than me. I've often mused about strapping into a Jaguar XK Convertible or a Corvette Z06. These days, I drive the ultimate hot car: the Toyota Corolla S-type.
- 5/1/2007
I have a plea this year for Mother's Day. In honor of moms everywhere, I implore all companies with an online presence to up their games.
- 4/1/2007
The hospitality industry, as with most others, is rife with buzzwords, jargon and acronyms. From nine to five, we effortlessly speak in such tongues that our families would find us profoundly unintelligible, smiling blankly back from across the dinner table.
- 3/1/2007
We have automatic teller machines, self-service kiosks, and now -- the electronic waiter?
- 1/8/2007
Politically speaking, it has been a tough few years for the lodging and restaurant industries in the United States.
- 1/8/2007
I imagine this is a question every hotelier or restaurateur asks him or herself at one time or another.
- 1/1/2007
I've never been particularly good at skiing, could really do without the excessive cold, and shoveling snow is near the top of my "worst ways to spend my time" list.
- 11/1/2006
If dining out in New York were anything like dining out in Paris, residents of the Big Apple -- or much of the U.S., for that matter -- would be forced to take a moment, even just a millisecond, to slow down and actually chew their food.
- 10/1/2006
I was driving past a farmer's field on a recent trip to the Midwest when I noticed the stalks of corn, tall and strong, already shooting high into the air. It must be easy for the farmer to measure the growth of his crop, I mused, and satisfying to witness that growth, needing only the naked eye as a measuring tool.
