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All The World’s A Stage: Legal Factors to Keep in Mind Before Signing a Location Agreement

by Elizabeth Colombo in Legal, Lodging. Posted August 31, 2019

When location scouts for movies, TV shows or other special events come to check out a hotel, hotel owners or managers have reason to be excited and cautious. The property may receive a location fee for the filming, and the buzz, visibility and social media bounce that come with location filming can be hard to ...

What is the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry? (Why does It Matter?)

by Kirby Payne in Hotel Development, Lodging. Posted August 20, 2019

The Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI) was first published by a committee of the Hotel Association of New York City (HANYC) in 1926. The committee was chaired by E. M. Statler the founder of Statler Hotels. Among the other eight Proprietary Committee members were the then owners of The Waldorf Astoria, ...

Hospitality Cyber Threats Are Alive & Well – Lessons From Recent Incidents

by Sandy Garfinkel in Risk Management, Technology. Posted July 16, 2019

The data incident involving the Starwood guest database was one of the most significant data security incidents in recent years. Publicly announced on November 30, 2018, the details revealed in the days and weeks following the announcement contain some striking reminders and new lessons for the hospitality industry. Here are some of the key facts ...

How to Add Value to Your Hotel Asset

by Carrie Russell in Hotel Development, Lodging. Posted June 27, 2019

At the most basic level, the value of a hotel is based on the property’s net income divided by a capitalization rate. As such, one has two possible levers to adjust as a means of increasing a property’s value: either increase the property’s net income or decrease the capitalization rate. The capitalization rate, which is ...

If The Shoe Fits: How Footwear Policy May Lead To Wage And Hour Violations

by Fisher Phillips in Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Legal, Lodging. Posted June 18, 2019

Hotel and restaurant employers commonly require employees to wear uniforms, some as simple as a shirt with company logo, others requiring a more complete look: jacket or blouse and pants or skirt, or dress. Some employers, however, fail to consider the consequences of imposing the cost of the uniform on an employee. Under the federal ...

Liquor Licensing For Hotel & Restaurant Acquisitions

by Elizabeth DeConti in Food & Beverage, Legal. Posted December 27, 2018

You are the General Counsel or the outside counsel to a hotel or restaurant brand. Your client informs you that the company intends to purchase multiple units of additional properties in several different states. Your head spins, full of questions. Will it be an asset sale or stock purchase? Will we retain the employees? Will ...

Hotel Attack Statistics

by Jeff Moore in Safety & Security, Travel. Posted December 1, 2018

The mass murderer who used the MGM Mandalay Bay as a gunner’s perch to kill 59 people and wound 452 on 1 October 2017 shocked the hotel industry. Cries of, “we’ve never seen hotel violence like this,” and “this was impossible to detect and defend against” echoed throughout. Neither is true. While hotel violence is ...

Legal Issues in the Hospitality Sector

by Cassie Steele in Human Resources, Legal, Lodging. Posted November 1, 2018

The Hospitality Sector has many unique legal issues, and the number of crimes involving Hospitality Laws continues to rise. There were 2656 hotel crimes committed in New York in 2017 alone. Hotels and bars restaurants are the two most common sites of hospitality crimes. Legal issues in the hospitality sector most often involve the theft ...

Knowing Water Freezes Does NOT Mean Defendant Should Foresee that Water Will Freeze at a Certain Location

by Brian Cafritz in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Legal. Posted September 11, 2018

Businesses can control many factors on their property, but they cannot control the weather or alter the laws of physics. Water freezes at 32°F. Ice is slippery. Everybody knows the basic facts of the physical properties of water and ice. Among attorneys, there’s another equally well-known fact: Whenever a plaintiff slips and falls on ice—whether ...

The Unique Challenges of Data Security in the Hospitality Industry

by Eckert Seamans in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Lodging, Risk Management, Technology. Posted August 30, 2018

The hospitality industry has been in the news frequently over the past year as a result of multiple and significant data security incidents. Nationally recognized hotel and resort brands continue to suffer by cyber-attacks, including theft of payment card data from their retail and food/beverage outlets, and at times theft of guest data from reservations ...

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