H&C News’ first RoundTable was attended by delegates from pub groups, hotels, restaurants and coffee shops, and demonstrated that hospitality businesses are meeting some of the challenges of using social media. Our next event is setting out to benchmark how extensively social media is being used, through what channels, which ones work best for specific hospitality and … [Read more...]
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Exclusive invitation to Social Media Roundtable on 9 July
In response to numerous requests from readers, and in search of up-to-date information and best practice, Hospitality & Catering News is holding its first Social Media Roundtable in the late afternoon/early evening of 9 July 2014 at the citizenM Hotel London, Bankside. And we’ve specially reserved 2 places for visitors to Hospitality & Catering News – one of them … [Read more...]
H&C News Social Media Roundtable
H&C News and Armourcoat joined forces last Wednesday to organise a Social Media Roundtable on ‘measuring the effectiveness of social media’. The event was hosted by citizenM Bankside in London, attended by delegates from pub groups, hotels, restaurants and coffee shops, and proved to be a great success with delegates: not just informing, but even ‘inspiring’. Opening the … [Read more...]
Measuring product lifecycle and witnessing innovation in social media
Pinpointing the position of social media in its product lifecycle in hospitality was the topic of conversation last week at the Dorchester Collection’s Coworth Park, as a group of marketers and business owners from across the hospitality industry gathered in Ascot. The discussions centred around where different restaurateurs, product and service suppliers, hoteliers, … [Read more...]
Senior figures call on catering industry to embrace value of social enterprise
The foodservice sector needs to do more to showcase the commercial value social enterprises can bring to workplace clients, according to a high-profile roundtable discussion held by Bartlett Mitchell last week. Catering consultants, social enterprise leaders and Bartlett Mitchell senior management gathered at a specially arranged event held in London, aiming to identify the … [Read more...]
Social Media Marketing: now more of a science than an art?
One major advantage with online marketing is that it can be done in a way that takes away the prejudice of sample groups of one, I think this or that. By analysing data from campaigns, understanding what has happened is black and white and helps further develop your marketing, what to do next. Having worked in media for nearly three decades, magazines, events and exhibitions … [Read more...]
H&C Social 2014 – 2018: Lots of chat but have we learned anything?
Back in July 2014 H&C News held its first Social Media Roundtable at the citizenM London Bankside hotel. Over the next four years we held many more and taken them around the UK. The intention when created was to bring like minded people in hospitality and catering together to share their experience in social media with peers. Over the years hundreds of people have … [Read more...]
Never to defy nature, The Hospitality and Catering Supply Chain Roundtable 2017
The Hospitality and Catering Supply Chain Roundtable 2017 took place on Tuesday 25th April 2017 at Café Spice Namaste, hosted by Cyrus Todiwala OBE. The event was conceived by Cyrus, wanting to enable the sharing of knowledge and experience between like-minded people across the hospitality and catering industry, in relation to the food and drink supply chain. When the … [Read more...]
Partners In Purchasing join the Food & Drink Supply Chain roundtable
Researching, Talking, and Reporting on the food and drink Supply Chain We are delighted to announce that the Hospitality and Catering Supply Chain Roundtable 2017 is now almost fully booked. Delegates from across our industry will be taking part representing restaurants, hotels, contract caterers, pubs, bars, cafes, hospital trusts, universities and government. The … [Read more...]
#HandCSocial 2016 – Social Media Engagement and Numbers, the Conundrum
The #HandCSocial 2016 event will take place on Wednesday 21st September at CLERKENWELL London. The term Social Media very aptly expresses the properties it also possesses when executed effectively. People, brands and businesses broadcasting through social media achieve meaningful communication when someone engages with them, becoming social. Is how many followers a … [Read more...]
#HandCSocial 2015, a year of research, discussion and debate
Social Media insights: practical advice from our RoundTable marketplace As H&C News readers will know, both the hospitality and catering market and H&C News have been paying a good deal of attention in 2015 to digital and social media and the rapid progress that it is making. Few organisations that are serious about marketing are now ignoring social media – even if … [Read more...]
The #HandCSocial Roundtable explores Manchester and its views
As part one of a two #HandCSocial event month this October H&C News was pleased to visit Manchester on October 1 and explore current Social Media experience and trends with a lively and well-informed group representing hotels, restaurants, manufacturers, and contractors, including: Armourcoat Berkeley Scott C&C Catering Equipment Creation ADM Electrolux … [Read more...]
TIN’s Mark Harris to open discussions at Manchester #HandCSocial
Travel Intelligence Network’s Mark Harris will be speaking at Hospitality & Catering News’ social media roundtable at Manchester’s Hotel Football on Thursday 1st October. #HandCSocial roundtable events bring users of social media across the hospitality and catering industry together to discuss how social media is being applied to their businesses. Following on from a … [Read more...]
Manchester #HandCSocial Event now Carbon Neutral
H&C News are delighted to announce that the social media roundtable event taking place at Hotel Football in Manchester on October 1st will be a carbon neutral event. This will be achieved by working with Food for Thought, the initiative from Green Earth Appeal. Amongst many others Food for thought work with Marco Pierre White and his restaurant team, so who better to … [Read more...]
Join the #HandCSocial team at Hotel Football
H&C News and sponsor partners Armourcoat and C&C Catering Equipment are pleased to announce that we are launching the next phase of #HandCSocial roundtable events at Hotel Football in Manchester on October 1st. #HandCSocial roundtable events bring users of social media across the hospitality and catering industry together to discuss how social media is being applied … [Read more...]