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Arts de la Table @ The Ritz Paris
Last Monday AIM students had the opportunity to showcase their great team spirit and newly acquired Arts de la Table skills, at the Salon d’Ete! The 2025 edition featured food and wine pairing too: each team’s appointed sommelier was given the task to recommend wines for each of the menu’s courses. Great advice on table…
2024 Business Games at The American Business School
Such a privilege to be part of another great edition of Business Games at The American Business School Paris this week! 120 students, 20 teams competing in a realistic business simulation with all the challenges that come with it. 3 years of company and product development : production, storage, cash flow, investment choices…. finalizing in…
Biyahi Hospitality Expertise in 2024
June marks the end of the academic year, a time for both reflecting on the year gone by, and the beginning of the preparation stage for the next one! As I begin writing this post, many images stroll by in my mind, and I can’t help to think how fortunate I am to be teaching…
ИСКУССТВО СТОЛА
21 августа 2023 г.бияхигостеприимство Я предполагаю, что это связано с моими годами работы в сфере управления продуктами питания и напитками, но поскольку сейчас я провожу много времени, обучая иностранных студентов, мне часто приходится выходить из класса и приводить студентов «на пол» (Еда и «Операции по производству напитков или отелей» для моих читателей, не являющихся владельцами…
Cupping on a cold winter’s day
Very few things in life amount to the pleasure of tasting a warm quality Arabica, following an expedition in the -relatively- cold Parisian winter. Students at the AIM Paris, Académie Internationale de Management, had this opportunity last week, thanks to our hosts Simon and Quentin at Café Coutume. The focus of our visit was to…
Arts de la Table
I guess it has to do with my Food & Beverage Management years, but as I now spend a great deal of my time teaching international students, I have a frequent need to go out of the classroom and bring students “on the floor” (Food and Beverage or Hotel operations, for my non hotelier readers!),…
Luxury hotel management
KEY INGREDIENT #3 : PROCESSES The hospitality industry, in pursuit of permanent consistency, relies on quality standards which help ensure guest service processes are carried out in a systematic way. The best example in the luxury industry is a worldwide used set of standards called the “Leading hotels of the World” quality assurance[1] Common service…
Luxury hotel management’s key ingredients
Key ingredient #2 :Facilities Facilities include many important features of any luxury hotel, starting with a prime location. As one famous saying goes, there are three important factors in the hotel business: location, location, and… location[1] The building quality, as well as the upkeeping of its public areas will also be determinant. Here are some international…
Luxury hotel management
Key ingredients for success Key Ingredient #1: Staffing and training A hot topic these days, as many countries relying on tourism struggle to find and retain qualified staff. In this respect, France is an interesting case study: any given year the hotel and restaurant has anywhere between 150’000 to 200’000 positions left vacant. In 2021,…