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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? You’ll learn how to negotiate catering pricing, service charges and fees to deliver immediate savings to your company or organization.

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New and Renovated: Luxury, History and Everything In-Between

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Florida Panhandle, New Orleans and Denver hotels renovate and reopen with style Locations across the US make their mark with a slew of reopenings and extensive renovations. Host your next meeting at a design-led Denver hotel, a historic New Orleans boutique hotel and music venue or a luxurious beachside Florida resort.

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Elevating Event Experiences

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With a clear intention, you tailor every aspect of the event, from décor and entertainment to food and beverages, to align with your goals. Provide bite-size food portions to sample multiple dishes and eliminate food waste. What impression do you want to leave on attendees? What emotions do you want them to experience?

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Stand Together Pop-Up Tour Opens Doors to Immigration Solutions

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In addition to learning about the interconnectedness between immigrants and non-immigrants, and how to advance positive solutions to improve the current immigration system, visitors are invited to enjoy a series of 42 portraits of different immigrants on display. Select locations will feature doors decorated for the holidays.

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What to Expect from Event Safety in 2021

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Cartotto is complex director of security and risk management for Caribe Royal Orlando in Florida. Endless Events has a detailed webinar on cyber attacks and how to set up barriers against them. What safeguards does the property take for events that have a food and beverage component to it?

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Tips for Streamlining Vaccine Verification from Marriott’s The Exchange

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Early in the pandemic, Verney’s team identified that the layering of social distancing, masks, verification and planning for how to handle positive cases if do occur, as the best way to protect attendees and cast members (employees). “We

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Short Surge Omicron Predictions from ALHI’s Mike Dominguez

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And when there are hiccups in the future, planners and suppliers will know how to handle it together. Florida, one of the regions with the highest number of cases in the U.S., Those who can’t work from home, including food and beverage and construction workers “are the ones with the biggest appetite to get,” he observed.