Restaurants are still trying to find ways to take advantage of the rising popularity of social networking. A recent article in Restaurants & Institutions offers nine ways that restaurants can take advantage of social media.
Examples include using social media to: find employees, get feedback on new menu items, create a dialogue with customers, and more. The article provides examples of restaurants using social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook.
Read the full article from the Restaurants & Institutions web site. Cornell students can find current, and older, editions of Restaurants & Institutions on the periodical shelves in the Nestlé library.
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The Nestlé Library is offering a series of information sessions to help Hotel School students locate important research data for class projects or assignments this week. These 30-minute sessions are designed to familiarize students with key library resources in a specific area of hospitality research.
The 2010 edition of Consumer USA provides historic and forecasted market size data for more than 330 consumer markets together with manufacturer and brand shares for all the major consumers goods sectors. It includes background data and analysis on the US economy along with recent demographic, socio-economic, lifestyle and purchasing trends of the US consumer.
The Travel Promotion Act (H.R. 1035) has been approved by the U.S. House of Representatives by a 358 to 66 vote. The legislation creates a public-private partnership to promote the United States as a premier travel destination and better explain U.S. security policies. The Senate passed identical legislation earlier in September.
The beginning of each snow sports season brings the Snow Sports Market Intelligence Report, produced by SnowSports Industries America (SIA).
