If you are an avid social media user, you might have already come across various campaigns launched by businesses where they invited their customers to create an ad for them. The businesses then chose some of the best ads from the influx of submissions, which won crazy cash prizes and once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. These campaigns have almost always gone viral and created a loud buzz across social media. process? The proper use of marketing automation with precision. Marketing automation for restaurants involves using new technology to reach out to potential customers and maintain a healthy relationship with the loyal customers…
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(Bloomberg) — Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc. expects to return 19 hotels to lenders in cities including Las Vegas and Atlanta, declining to pour more cash into the properties, which are part of a $982 million mortgage pool that missed a repayment deadline in June. Most Read from Bloomberg Keeping the hotels would have required a paydown of about $255 million to extend the financing and $80 million in capital expenditures through 2025, the Dallas-based Ashford Trust said in a statement Friday. The equity in the properties is already negative, based on comparable sales and brokers opinion of value, according to…
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I’m constantly asking my friends what they’re using. My routine also changes based on whom I’m dating sometimes. If that person is more adept at beauty than I am, I will absolutely steal their products and pretend I knew about them the whole time. I use a superlight face wash, sometimes Curology Gentle Cleanser or Aesop Purifying Facial Exfoliant Paste. To exfoliate around my beard area, I’ll use a konjac sponge to make sure I’m preventing ingrown hairs. On my beard, I like the hair oil that my sister makes. I use the Muri Lelu Mauvaise Herbe Indica Oil every…
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Scroll through any major food delivery app and you’re likely to come across restaurants that seem to only exist online. Chances are, they’re ghost kitchens — virtual brands that use delivery platforms like Grubhub to reach hungry diners. Flexible and cost-effective, this business model is an ever-growing trend in the restaurant industry. Developing a virtual brand is a great way to capture the growing delivery industry. Restaurateurs, chefs, and entrepreneurs will typically launch their virtual brands either through a ghost kitchen or as a virtual restaurant that operates in tandem with their brick-and-mortar concept. How we talk about virtual brands…
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Nothing makes us more excited to get up and go than putting together our annual Hot List of the best new hotels, cruises, restaurants, cultural destinations, and transportation projects. Now in its 27th year, this curated collection is a labor of love for our global team, which spends the year researching, visiting, and vetting the entries to you a definitive directory of places whose style, ethos, and service set new standards for hospitality. This year’s best beach hotels—made for reading in the shade and afternoon swims—are sure to make everyday stresses disappear. All that’s left is for you to decide…
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Cconstructed from galvanized steel and plywood, the latest hotel to open in Lowestoft, Suffolk, boasts a sea view and promises plenty of privacy. Which should suit the guests that flock to the prime seaside spot: black-legged kittiwakes looking for a place to nest. The kittiwake hotel opened in March, offering artificial nesting sites for the seabirds. Like albatrosses, kittiwakes spend most of their lives at sea, but traditionally nest on cliff ledges between March and July. Experts say that artificial nesting sites could support the kittiwakes as they face increasingly unpredictable weather because of climate change, limited prey due to…
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Whether ordering in or eating out, mealtimes are often a family affair. Creating a menu specifically designed for kids makes the entire experience much easier for all involved. Does your restaurant have kids meals that have them asking for seconds? The best children’s menus are both kid-friendly and parent-approved, so here are five kids’ menu ideas to help you please the whole family. 5 menu items you need in your kids meals What makes a kids meal different from a regular menu is that it’s catered towards kids’ pallets, keeps portions smaller and often comes with a side. Parents appreciate…
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Canadian design studio Yabu Pushelberg has created the Moxy and AC Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles to encapsulate a variety of references to the surrounding city. The two hotels were placed side by side within a Gensler-designed building in central Los Angeles, with Yabu Pushelberg carrying out the design for both hotels. The designers used a variety of LA-oriented references across both hotels, referencing local artist culture, street life, the desert, as well as the imagery of movies from Hollywood. The Moxy Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles was designed based on deserts and cinema “Moving making and the California Dream…
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