Tuesday, May 1, 2012

The Outdoor Office By American Studio Jonathan Olivares Design Research, presents three distinct scenarios for working and studying outdoors


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The Outdoor Office by American studio Jonathan Olivares Design Research, being exhibited at The Art Institute of Chicago until 15 July 2012. 

"The Outdoor Office presents research and design on the subject of outdoor work furniture for corporate, institutional or educational contexts, made possible by grants from The Graham Foundation."

Hospitality Business News: Hotel Food and Beverage Trends

"The combination of catering revenue, public room rental income, audio visual fees, and banquet service charges accounted for an estimated 55.5 percent of total F&B department revenue.
For these full-service hotels, the offering of F&B is not just a source of revenue, but an amenity used to position the property within the marketplace.
Losses within the F&B department are no longer tolerated by owners. F&B managers struggle to contain costs and grow revenues.  The ability of management to attract local patrons, boost catering revenue, and increase beverage sales within their restaurants are examples of successful tactics that have generated profitable revenue."

To learn about the tools PKF-HR offers to benchmark the performance of hotel F&B operations, please visit www.pkfc.com/benchmarker.  This article was published in the May 2011 edition of Lodging.