Being a great chef and having strong catering experience is not enough to make a catering business succeed. Catering business owners need to handle the challenges of making big business decisions as well. They need the financial skills to pick competitive prices, negotiate deals, and balance the budget. They’ll need to know how to market…
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“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” – Henry Ford Behind every great accomplishment comes a great team. The events based businesses are no exceptions to the rule. The goal of the business is to cater a great event with high quality meals and excellent service to the…
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Hospitality businesses, and specifically caterers, rank among the highest in the industries to hire temp staff. Yet, managers continue to struggle in finding the right way to purposely and meaningfully connect their temp staff to the company as these employees are doomed to leave within a short period of time. Ubeya experts have investigated and…
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(Originally published by Ubeya in AllSeated) Running a hospitality service means you already have a lot on your plate (literally!), but on top of that you are most likely working with staff with changing work hours on a weekly, if not daily, basis. Time clock softwares are here to take all that stress away and…
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Podcast is the new radio station on-demand and it’s time for you to join the trend! In the past 15 years, podcasts have become increasingly more popular and offers its listeners topics from news, arts, business, comedy, education, politics, sports, technology, music, health, spirituality, hobbies, and more. As part of a dominant and fast growing…
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Now that I have your attention, don’t think this article is about how awful millennials are and how to fix this problem. In fact, there are too many false stereotypes attached to the term “millennial” with the most famous one being that they are “job hoppers” and do not stick to a job for too…
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Boost Productivity and Overcome Feeling Overwhelmed Overwhelmed with work, now what? Have you ever been overwhelmed? If you are like most business owners, the answer is a resounding yes. Busy small business owners have two common options when faced with a daunting task: Trying to do it all at once, which will most likely leave…
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3,200 Pounds of Filet Mignon—The Governors Ball By The Numbers The wait is over. The 2017 Emmy award winners have been announced. The Handmaid’s Tale of nightmarish dystopia and drama won critical acclaim. The fashion magazines published their best dressed and worst dressed. (Will they ever stop?) Stephen Colbert made us laugh (a lot). Records…
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Staff Engagement for the New Worker Paradigm Why is staff turnover so high? What can I do to improve worker retention? How can I keep track of staff that work off-site? Can I even do anything to improve the worker experience for hourly, on demand and/or off-site staff? After hearing these concerns from many business…
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Keeping Staff Engaged in the On-Demand Economy Shift to the on-demand economy The on-demand economy is growing by leaps and bounds, “attracting more than 22.4 million consumers annually and $57.6 billion in spending,” according to a paper reviewed in the Harvard Business Review. Event staff workers are pioneers of what is now known as the…
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