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Banquets and Catering: An Insider’s Approach to Food and Beverage

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Register for “Banquets and Catering: An Insider’s Approach to Food and Beverage” Have you ever wondered how can hotels charge $120 or more for a gallon of coffee? Tom went into meeting planning and founded CONTACT Planning, a national meeting planning company with headquarters in Orlando, Florida.

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Insider’s Guide to Banquet Menu Strategies to Stretch Your Budget

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You’ll learn how to trace hotels expenses through food cost, beverage cost, setup staff and culinary personnel. Learn how to negotiate specific monetary areas like room rentals, setup fees, bartender fees, service charges and many other areas to immediately improve your negotiations and maximize your meeting’s ROI.

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Smart Meeting East National Meets in Lap of Luxury

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The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida. Along Billionaires Row, some of the world’s richest own colossal mansions in Palm Beach, Florida. At Smart Meeting East National, we met where the creme de la creme vacation at the majestic The Breakers resort Aug. Fun, Food and Friendship. Do Ask, Do Tell. Daren Martin. Balancing Act.

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7 Smart Moves at The Ritz-Carlton Lake Tahoe, ART Hotel, and More

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Curtis previously served as director of sales and marketing for The Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida. He improved booking pace in 2016 and 2017 during a $100 million renovation. Coburn has more than 20 years of hospitality experience, including a strong food and beverage background. Aaron Coburn.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

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The circle got considerably bigger in 1987, with a vote to open up membership to professionals in the fields of science, education, and engineering, and bigger still in 1990, when all nonprofit association meeting professionals and CEOs were invited to join. “We A Meeting Runs on Its Stomach. “As Heart Attack on a Plate.

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