3 Effective Ways to Gain Return Customers at Your Hotel
Running a successful hotel is reliant on building meaningful relationships with satisfied guests, who then become return customers. Happy guests become return customers at your hotel. Repeat business means guaranteed income and less money spent on attracting new guests. The National Law Review found it costs 5 times more to gain a new customer than […]
Q&A with Lakefront Brewery: The Pros and Cons of Running a Brewery & Restaurant
Lakefront Brewery is a thriving and beloved brewery and restaurant at the heart of Milwaukee’s riverfront. Founded in 1987 by two brothers, Russ and Jim Klisch, this iconic beer establishment has been providing the Milwaukee community with good beer, good food, and even better memories for over 30 years. Interestingly, their ever-popular restaurant, located in […]
How to Run a Family-Friendly Hotel (and Why You Should)
Family-friendly hotels are a growing trend in the hospitality industry. Implementing special activities and perks specifically for kids and families is a great way to attract more people and expand your customer base. Providing kid-friendly travel amenities doesn’t mean completely reinventing your establishment as a daycare center. The most popular family hotels offer benefits for […]
An Introduction to Modern Senior Health Care
Assisted living, the blanket term for service that provides housing, support services and medical care for residents as needed. Assisted living starts with helping individuals who need assistance with their meals, making sure they take their medications or getting them to and from doctor’s appointments. Assisted living also provides high-level, long-term care for residents suffering from illnesses or memory disorders.
Most people equate assisted living with nursing homes, but there are several different styles that fall under this category. Independent living allows seniors to live much as they would outside assisted care, but their rental fees provide in-home services such as cooking and cleaning. Elderly housing like this can also provide additional services or programs that the residents may participate in for socialization and activity. These services are often known as congregate housing, and they contract out for meals and transportation from the living area. Home healthcare sends nurses and other care workers into family homes to help with seniors suffering from injuries or long-term illnesses. This also provides various types of therapy to help regain independence. Nursing homes are often used for long-term senior healthcare, but also assist hospitals by providing space for convalescence and short-term care.
The Benefits of Composting: Turn Your Restaurant’s Waste into Profit
One of the biggest expenses every restaurant faces is consistent and proper waste removal. Did you know that in a commercial kitchen, it’s estimated that as much as 70% of all waste is made up of organic material like food scraps and soiled napkins? Many big chain restaurants literally throw it all in the garbage. Food waste, glass, paper and other recyclables all tossed away, with little consideration for the trash’s value as a resource.
Small- to medium-sized restaurants feel the local impact much more than their larger chain restaurant brothers, and simply cannot afford to operate the same way. Not only are you concerned about the community that you work in—the same community that supports you—but you recognize opportunity when you see it.
Extra food doesn’t have to be hauled away by trash collection just to decompose in a landfill somewhere. Instead, consider learning how to recycle leftover food by turning your compostable items into something that can be repurposed for the greater good.
