Awards and Recognition
Lotte Hotel Moscow is awarded ?Best breakfast in Europe? by the Prix Vill?giature Awards. The Vill?giature Awards, established in 2013, consist of 22 journalists and press correspondents representing major media organisations throughout the world. Every year they select the best of the best hotels in Europe, Asia, Africa
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From its luxury Sofitel to budget Ibis, France?s AccorHotels is pepping up its food and drink products to draw in diners and help compensate for room business lost to online booking sites, Reuters reported. In a shift mirrored at rivals InterContinental and Marriott, Europe?s largest hotel group is
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InterContinental Hotels Group announces new menu additions to its Kids Eat Free programme at all Holiday Inn?Hotels & Resorts properties in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Under the programme, children aged 12 and under eat free any time of the day at any Holiday Inn hotel on-site
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Kerry Simon, a former ?Iron Chef? champ who served up dishes to rock bands including Led Zeppelin and Motley Cre, has died aged 60. Simon was diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy, a degenerative neurological disorder, and died from complications related to the disease, Associated Press reported. His business partner, Cory
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Radisson Blu is relaunching its Super Breakfast through a new fundraising initiative ? ?Buy a Breakfast, Give a Breakfast? ? in support of the charity partnership with World Childhood Foundation (www.childhood.org). ?Everyone knows breakfast is the most important meal of the day ? it?s also usually the final meal a
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The Pancake Selfie Express features five push-button pancake machines, each producing one pancake per minute as well as ?finely-tuned lasers? which then imprint selfies taken via mobile phone camera directly onto each pancake. InterContinental Hotels Group goes overboard with a press release that announces ?yet another massive leap
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?InterContinental Hotels Group partners with?Nutrition Australia?to launch a newly created Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts Kids? Menu across Asia, the Middle East and Africa (AMEA) regions. The menu features ?flavourful and playfully presented dishes to appeal to small ones? big imaginations.? The menu was developed in partnership with
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Celebrity chef Jose Andres backed out of plans to open a flagship restaurant in Donald Trump’s new hotel under construction in Washington amid ongoing fallout from Trump’s political statements. Andres, a Spanish immigrant, called Trump’s statements ?disparaging immigrants? in his decision to cancel plans to open a
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1 The region Languedoc in southwestern France is one of the biggest wine growing areas in the country. Wine plays a big role in the cuisine as well. In the restaurant “Domaine d?Auriac” in Carcassonne, wine is the perfect ingredient for star chef Philippe Deschamps’s recipes. For Euromaxx,
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Something for the weekend. The Undercover Boss series provides some interesting insights into the Restaurant Franchise business. In this episode of ?Undercover Boss?, Coby Brooks, then CEO and President of Hooters, is tossed into some low-level food service positions of his restaurant chain under alias ?Scott?. Interesting fact.
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CARROLLTON, Texas, To ensure the good times keep going, TGI Fridays? is launching “Endless Appetizers,” a summer-long promotion featuring a continuous supply of the brand’s favorite appetizers for only $10 per person. Guests can choose any one appetizer from a list of the restaurant’s most popular starters
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Something for the weekend. Our review of The Undercover Boss series continues with Twin Peaks Restaurants episode. Twin Peaks CEO Randy Dewitt working undercover at his sports bar and grill. Later, former Hooters CEO Coby Brooks, now a Twin Peaks franchise owner, shaves his head and goes undercover as an