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F&B: Low-Cost Creativity
Original Air Date: Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2012 View this webinar online now! |
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Budget Bites
How to create high-quality, low-cost F&B events
By RAYNA KATZ
When planning a banquet—or a range of food and beverage events over the course of an event—on a budget, one’s first instinct might be to order the chicken versus the steak, buffet versus plated, and take other basic steps to keep costs low.
But experienced planners say such measures aren’t the way to save money and still have a successful event. In other words, those steps leave attendees hungry for more
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F&B: Low-Cost Creativity
Speaker: Arlene Sheff
Wed., April 25, 2012
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Food and beverage often is the second-largest item in a meeting’s budget, but you don’t have to break the bank to provide a memorable F&B experience. Dig in to some tried-and-true F&B tips, and share some of your own, that will result both in satiated attendees and lower costs.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Think more strategically to determine which methods work best for their group, without sacrificing quality
• Be able to determine ways to get more for their dollar
• Have more low-cost creative ideas to choose from.
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Cutting-Edge Meetings Tech: Feeds & Needs
Speaker: Jim Spellos
Wed., May 23, 2012
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What’s the most important tech topic of 2012? It’s mastering the tool which allows you to get out from under the avalanche of information. It’s the same one that enables you to create content rich sites for your audience. Social Curation makes you a content publisher, as well as providing the tools to manage the information flow that comes into your computer, tablet or smart phone. These tools are the critical time savers and information managers every business person needs.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Understand critical web service definitions such as social curation, social bookmarking and RSS.
• Identify 10 curation tools which can help you publish and manage information
• Recognize tablet-specific tools to help deliver customized content to your iPad or other mobile devices
• Identify how social sharing tools enhance the curation process
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| Arlene Sheff |
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1. Money can be saved during receptions by serving champagne only at the door as guests enter, shortening the length of a reception, or by limiting alcoholic beverages to only beer and wine but no hard alcohol.
2. Affordable buffet options that are usually popular include a ‘make your own sandwich buffet’ with soup and salad bar; Pizza and salad bar; Mexican buffet; or a Baked potato bar with hearty soup or chili (preferred by men).
3. Take the time to know the demographics of your group, and work closely with a property’s catering manager to find the right fit for your group’s budget and tastes.
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F&B: Low-Cost Creativity
Available Online Now!
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| Take 10! |
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What sort of communication before the meeting should be done with attendees?
What strategies can you suggest to contain coffee service charges?
Is Chicken/Beef/Fish still the standard to meet a variety of taste buds?
How can a dessert reception be both elegant AND affordable?
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