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Suite includes a mobile wallet platform and a set of mobile marketing services that enable location-based offers, gifting and loyalty services.

It its first-ever salary survey, HT polled a sample of 275 executives from across the hotel and restaurant industries, representing a variety of sub-segments, departments, and titles, to find out how much they're earning, plus insight into the education level, length of work-week, and benefits packages that are common among hotel and restaurant executives.

Rustle Hill Restaurant & Winery, Cobden, Ill, has turned to a text messaging system, TextMyFood, which allows guests to send SMS messages to their server using their personal phones.

Location-based services represent a new revenue stream for hospitality, just make sure you avoid the one major pitfall.

The point-of-sale supplier marketplace is getting serious about mobile offerings as established technology vendors, as well as a number of new startups, are entering into the mobile fray. HT recaps eight mobile POS releases from 2011.

Are women working in hospitality subject to disparities in compensation? HT's 2011 Salary Survey offers some answers.

To avoid overlap with the Global G8 and NATO Summit, the National Restaurant Association has decided to move the dates for its 2012 show to May 5-8.

OpenTable may by great for consumers, but its payoff for restaurants may be lacking.