By Myranda Mondry, Copywriter and Researcher at TSheets Thirty years, 30,000 wage and hour prosecutions within the hospitality industry. That's around 1,000 per year, 20 per week, and 3 per day. Yep, you read that correctly. Each day, approximately 30 hotels, restaurants, and bars across America are hit with [...]
By Cara Strickland, Tales of The Cocktail What if there was a free, easy way to promote cooperation among your employees or coworkers? If you ask Dr. Kevin Kniffen, Assistant Professor at Cornell University and one of the authors of a recent study in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, music just [...]
BY RACHEL CROMIDAS IN NEWS Chicago might have trouble getting people to stay here, but it's doing a pretty good job of attracting visitors, according to new tourism numbers released by City Hall. The Mayor's Office announced Sunday that tourism was at a record high this past July with a [...]
By Pranjal Prashar, Founder & CEO RepUp.co Online hotel reviews have become far important than hoteliers might assume. If you have not yet paid attention to managing and responding to online reviews, it's high time that you wake up to the fact that online reviews are affecting your hotel's overall [...]
By DANNY ECKER. Crain's Chicago enjoyed more visitors from around the country in 2015 than in any year before, according to new numbers released by the city. Domestic visitation to the city totaled 50.97 million people last year, a 4.5 percent jump over 2014's record performance and the first [...]
BY EMMA G. GALLEGOS IN NEWS Chicago had a bangin' year for tourism: over 50 million domestic tourists visited in 2015. (Thankfully Spike Lee's Chi-Raq didn't scare everyone away.) The tally hasn't quite been finalized, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Choose Chicago Board Chair Desiree Rogers announced that 50.97 million [...]
By Breanna Wilson , FORBES CONTRIBUTOR Chicago has it all – spectacular food, legendary nightlife and now, one of the best ping pong scenes in the country. Yes. It’s true, ping pong is back in a big way thanks to the person you might least expect it from, Susan Sarandon. Carefully curated [...]
By: Harry Bradford Become a fanHarry.Bradford@huffingtonpost.com, HuffPost Tess Johnson was pretty upset when she showed up at a Warby Parker in Atlanta last Tuesday to pick up her new glasses frames. Her car had been stolen earlier that day, and she found herself sharing the tale with the retail employees in the [...]
By: Daniel Gerzina , photos by Marc Much @DanielGerzina, Eater Welcome back to One Year In, a feature in which Eater sits down for a chat with the chefs and owners of restaurants celebrating their one year anniversary. Five years ago, brothers and real estate investors Nader, Rafid and Fadi Hindo purchased the historic three-floor building [...]
BY: Huffington Post The hottest new restaurants in town are opening far from city centers and trendy neighborhoods -- and you'll need to walk through a millimeter wave scanner just to order an appetizer. Airports around the country are increasingly becoming foodie destinations as concessions operators trade in greasy, pre-packaged sandwiches and [...]
