Success in today’s rapidly changing hospitality industry depends on understanding the desires of guests of all ages, from seniors and boomers to the newly dominant millennial generation of travelers. Help has arrived with a compulsively-readable new standard, The Heart of Hospitality: Great Hotel and Restaurant Leaders Share Their Secrets by Micah Solomon, with a foreword by The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company’s president and COO Herve Humler. This up-to-the-minute resource delivers the closely guarded customer experience secrets and on-trend customer service insights of today’s top hoteliers, restaurateurs, and masters of hospitality management including: Four Seasons Chairman Isadore Sharp: How to build an unsinkable company culture Union Square Hospitality Group CEO Danny Meyer: His secrets of hiring, onboarding, training, and more Tom Colicchio (Craft Restaurants, Top Chef): How to create a customer-centric customer experience in a chef-centric restaurant Virgin Hotels CEO Raul Leal: How Virgin Hotels created its innovative, future-friendly hospitality approach Ritz-Carlton President and COO Herve Humler: How to engage today’s new breed of luxury travelers Double-five-star chef and hotelier Patrick O’Connell (The Inn at Little Washington) shares the secrets of creating hospitality connections Designer David Rockwell on the secrets of building millennial-friendly restaurants and hotel spaces (W, Nobu, Andaz) that resonate with today’s travelers Restaurateur Traci Des Jardins on building a “narcissism-free” hospitality culture Legendary chef Eric Ripert’s principles of creating a great guest experiences, simultaneously within a single dining room. The Heart of Hospitality is a hospitality management resource like no other, put together by leading customer service expert Micah Solomon. Filled with exclusive, first-hand stories and wisdom from the top professionals in the industry, The Heart of Hospitality is an essential hospitality industry resource. As Ritz-Carlton President and COO Herve Humler says in his foreword to the book, “If you want to create and sustain a level of service so memorable that it becomes an unbeatable competitive advantage, you’ll find the secrets here.”

The bestselling business book from award-winning restauranteur Danny Meyer, of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake Shack Seventy-five percent of all new restaurant ventures fail, and of those that do stick around, only a few become icons. Danny Meyer started Union Square Cafe when he was 27, with a good idea and hopeful investors. He is now the co-owner of a restaurant empire. How did he do it? How did he beat the odds in one of the toughest trades around? In this landmark book, Danny shares the lessons he learned developing the dynamic philosophy he calls Enlightened Hospitality. The tenets of that philosophy, which emphasize strong in-house relationships as well as customer satisfaction, are applicable to anyone who works in any business. Whether you are a manager, an executive, or a waiter, Danny’s story and philosophy will help you become more effective and productive, while deepening your understanding and appreciation of a job well done. Setting the Table is landmark a motivational work from one of our era’s most gifted and insightful business leaders.

This book is an introduction to the management of food and beverage operations within a luxury hotel environment. It provides detailed coverage of operational areas within the food and beverage department, based on multiple real industry examples, allowing the reader to grasp the intricacies of the day-to-day running of outlets. Food and Beverage Management in the Luxury Hotel Industry is a reference for any hospitality management student wishing to gain sufficient knowledge in the subject, to conduct a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the department, through revenue and cost management, and quality audits. It also looks at the various trends shaping the industry today, particularly focusing on sustainability issues and ethical concerns.

The book is about creating opportunity by setting a strategy that challenges current hotel operations by systematically going through departments and outlets, using real examples, data from a variety of industries, and input from remarkable colleagues and partners from in and outside the hospitality industry.

The only advanced marketing textbook specifically focused on thehospitality industry . . . The time when you could run a hospitality business with nothingbut a friendly smile and a strong work ethic has passed. Dining,lodging, and entertaining habits are changing rapidly as theinformation age revolutionizes the world economy. More than ever,businesses must focus their marketing efforts on specific segmentswithin the market. Success in the hospitality industry demands thatyou develop the cutting-edge decision-making skills necessary foreffective strategic market management. Marketing Management for the Hospitality Industry providescomprehensive coverage of marketing from both long- and short-termperspectives. Each chapter is an actual component of an overallstrategic marketing model, and the book's easy-to-read, hands-onapproach simplifies complex material and enables you to graspdifficult concepts quickly and completely. Inside you'll find: * How-to's for planning long- and short-term marketingstrategies * Examples of successful marketing strategies * Specific techniques for analyzing markets * Strategic development and administrative aspects ofmarketing * Sample strategic marketing plans that clearly demonstrate howmarketing strategies are applied in both the lodging andfoodservice segments of the industry * Tips on integrating marketing strategy with overall businessstrategy * Numerous charts and tables that support the text and clarifydifficult points Whether you are a marketing manager, general manager of a hotelor restaurant, corporate manager, or a student eager to make yourmark on the industry, with this indispensable guide you willsharpen your competitive edge, reach the customers you need, andmake the most of every opportunity to help your business grow.