The Seattle and Tacoma Latino Metropolitan Chambers of Commerce awarded the Washington Hospitality Association and its President & CEO Anthony Anton the 2023 Corporate Excellence Award for Diversity and Inclusion of the Latino Community. “We are the industry where...
Starting Jan. 1, 2024, all film bags and products, food packaging and compostable foodservice products must be labeled as such to comply with Washington’s new Plastic Product Degradability Law. Products that are labeled as “compostable” that are sold or distributed in...
This article was provided to us by the Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) about the laws and regulations they administer that apply to the sale of fish, shellfish and wildlife in restaurants, grills and taverns in Washington state. When it comes to acquiring your...
Cybercrime and breaches are constantly evolving and are steadily on the rise. Recently, Eva Novick from Foster Garvey and Lynsee Wiegand from Parker, Smith & Feek discussed tools to protect and prepare your hospitality business from cyber incidents. The two...
At the Washington Hospitality convention held in Tacoma Nov. 17, three longtime industry leaders were honored for their contributions to hospitality. The three are Randy Irvine, Frank Welton and Budd Gould. Frank Welton, Burtenshaw Award Frank Welton, former...
By Andy Cook, Harbor Foodservice Restaurant Consultant Group People don’t leave jobs, they leave bosses. A 2019 cross-industry workplace study learned that 94% of responders stay longer in jobs where they feel recognized, valued and invested. Turnover is expensive:...
By Andy Cook, Harbor Foodservice Restaurant Consultant Group Help Wanted signs and Craigslist ads don’t measure up. Countless hours and resources have been invested to perfect marketing strategies that work. Attracting customers and attracting talent are remarkably...
In a big win from your government affairs team, the Washington State Liquor & Cannabis Board (LCB) has adopted rules to allow ax throwing at liquor-licensed establishments. The rules allow liquor licensed premises to provide ax-throwing activities with the...
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has been celebrating National Small Business Week for almost 50 years by a presidential proclamation. Part of the celebration is honoring business people in every state and region. This year two of our members received...
Imagine this: You are checking your email and you see a message from Microsoft telling you that you received an important email, and you can find it by clicking this link. But you didn’t look closely enough at the message. The email address it came from was not a...
