Global Hospitality Learning: our Exciting NEW Lineup of #IoHWebinars

Book your seat at a forthcoming #IoHWebinar for easy, informative CPD!

The Institute has just released its latest lineup of Institute Webinars featuring a stellar group of industry experts discussing the hottest industry topics – from the latest rate parity and revenue management tips and how to avoid dangerous legionella in your hospitality business – to addressing the upcoming allergen requirements for food businesses under the new UK Food Information Regulation (FIR) and working on your business’s “Christmas Checklist” (a must-attend before the Christmas season)!

Each webinar runs about 30-45 minutes, offers a Q&A session with the presenter and can be accessed from anywhere in the world. The webinars have proved so popular that we’ve had attendees from New Zealand and Alaska! Hospitality learning doesn’t get any easier than this.

The webinars are FREE to members and there is a nominal fee for non-members. The content of the webinars makes excellent continuing professional development (CPD) for hospitality managers at all levels.

Education Membership Scheme (EMS) academics are encouraged to book one seat for a classroom’s attendance. To learn more, contact Peter at: admin@instituteofhospitality.org

Hurry and sign-up now as ‘seats’ to the webinars are limited and issued on a first-come, first served basis. BOOK HERE

 

Food Service Businesses: here’s how to make BIG savings!

The simple-to-use Winnow System helps determine levels of food waste.

Restaurants, pubs, cafes and hotels in London have the opportunity to save thousands of pounds and massively cut their food waste and its related costs by participating in a London-wide scheme called FoodSave. The scheme has already helped small food businesses save an average of just over £6,000 a year, two businesses are predicted to save over £10,000 and one is expected to save a huge £24,000!

So what’s the catch, you might wonder? There is no catch! Participation in FoodSave is FREE because it is funded by the Mayor of London, the European Regional Development Fund and the London Waste and Recycling Board. Governments, industry bodies and environmental agencies all recognise that it is to everyone’s benefit to reduce the huge amounts of food waste going to landfill.

The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) is delivering the free programme by running food waste audits (worth up to  £5,000) that help businesses analyse the food waste they produce. The audit system is straightforward: it measures the real time weight and cost of food waste across different food waste types (spoilage, preparation and customer plate waste) via a simple-to-use tablet attached to a set of scales and a bin. Once the sources of the food waste are identified, the FoodSave team works with the catering and kitchen teams to find ways of reducing food waste.

To find out more, visit the FoodSave website where you can watch a neat animation explaining how FoodSave works as well as details about how to get your business involved. You can also read about what your peers in restaurants, pubs, hotels, cafes and caterers are saying about the FoodSave programme and how it’s helped them save more than £6,000 and 2 tonnes a year.

FoodSave works with small restaurants, canteens, hotels, pubs, quick-service food outlets, street-food vendors, food manufacturers, food retailers and wholesalers. If your foodservice business is in London, you’re probably eligible, but HURRY because participation is limited and the scheme ends in March 2015!

For more information or to get involved, email foodsave@thesra.org or call 020 7479 4224.

A Simple, Satisfying Solution for Hospitality Businesses

This simple process could be the solution to many of your hospitality business’s needs.

If you’d like to be at the forefront of a new trend developing in the hospitality industry, then try the Institute’s new management guide, Making Drinking Water Part of Your CSR Policy. It explains why something as simple as drinking water has become a critical issue for hospitality businesses and discusses viable alternatives and legal obligations on the part of the business.

Learn how:

• bottled waters are costing the environment – and consumers – dearly.
• hospitality owners and operators can manage drinking water simply through a popular process
• costs are reduced for consumers and operators and profits are retained or grown for the business
• the new process fits in with any hospitality business – from micro to global – and why it is an essential part of any business’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy and activities.

This is an important topic that will become even more urgent as the price of utilities and recycling increases and as informed consumers increasingly look for ‘greener’ measures from hospitality providers.