Learn how to be a strategic business partner by aligning goals, improving execution, and delivering measurable value across hospitality.
Strategic Business Partner Meaning Explained
Understand strategic business partner meaning, how it differs from vendors, and why it matters for hospitality leaders focused on growth.
Strategic Business Partnerships That Work
Strategic business partnerships help hospitality companies grow faster, reduce risk, and improve execution when goals, roles, and value align.
Business Consulting and Advisory Services
Business consulting and advisory services help hospitality operators improve strategy, execution, costs, and performance with expert support.
9 Business Advisory Services Examples
Explore business advisory services examples for restaurants and hospitality groups, from cost control and strategy to operations and growth planning.
Business Advisory vs Consulting Explained
Business advisory vs consulting affects scope, accountability, and results. Learn which model fits hospitality operators and growth goals best.
Difference Between Consulting and Advisory Services
Learn the difference between consulting and advisory services, including scope, execution, timelines, and when each model fits hospitality needs.
What Are Business Advisory Services?
What are business advisory services? Learn how advisory support helps hospitality businesses improve strategy, operations, growth, and results.
Anticipatory Hospitality — Doing Your Homework
In an ultracompetitive world of restaurant, hotel, club and travel experiences you need to stand out above the rest. As a hospitality leader your mentorship of your team should center around anticipating the needs of your guests. It takes a lot of practice to get right. How often have we been at even the smallest […]
The Key To Healthy Restaurant Management
The restaurant, club or hotel outlet with the best reviews, consistent and loyal guests, solid volumes and strong P&Ls owes to one overriding factor: owners and managers always seeking and acting on any shortcomings. This may take the form of online reviews, guest feedback or industry trends. Quite often when restaurants struggle they have insecure […]
What’s your beef – it pays to carefully source your menu
What’s the quality of the beef and other menu items? With inflation running rampant and driving up restaurant cost of goods, there still, in our opinion, needs to be a laser focus on presenting the best possible product to customers – even if it is an option at a higher price. We see so many […]
How Country Club and HOA Club Food & Beverage Can Actually Be Profitable
Check out our newest article in Hospitality Business Review. https://www.hospitalitybusinessreview.com/vp/-access-point-hospitality-advisors/how_country_clubs_and_hoa_club_food_&_beverage_can_actually_be_profitable/
Access Point Hospitality Advisors – Hospitality Business Magazine’s Top 2024 Consultants
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Restaurant, Hotel and Club Food & Beverage – An Annual Review Is A Must
For all operators, managers and owners, our hotel, club, and restaurant team recommend an annual operations and marketing review of all outlets. Take a look the presentation and let’s chat – 619-300-4495.
Tom Kelley – What’s With Late Restaurant Openings?
In planning an upcoming trip, to a resort destination, we wanted to explore some new and noteworthy restaurants and chefs, but found many are holding onto an antiquated very late opening schedule. The one thing the pandemic made us realize is that people’s schedules have dramatically changed. The days of dinners at 7 or 8pm […]
Always Inspiration From Business Writer Lolly Daskal
We always find inspiration from icons we’ve had the honor to work for and alongside, legends in the hospitality and general business community – and from our restaurant, hotel and supplier clients. We often get some grief for wanting to listen too much, but that’s ok, that’s how we make sure we fully understand situations […]
Leading Restaurant and Hotel Transformations, our Founder, Tom Kelley
Restaurant and hotel owners and operators are able to tap into Tom Kelley’s extensive experience building brands and concepts for restaurant and hotels nationwide. While we have an expert team of industry veterans ready to roll up their sleeves for first time, emerging, growing and expanding chefs, restaurants, hotel asset managers and owners, Tom leads […]
Our Founder, Tom Kelley – Are You Truly Extraordinary? Take a Hard Look at Your Online Restaurant Reviews.
How often do we see lines at restaurants (not just post Covid lockdowns!) or OpenTable https://www.opentable.com bookings completely filled — and great Trip Advisor http://www.tripadvisor.com reviews? If you aren’t seeing any of these, it’s time for a truly objective assessment of what you are doing well and not so well. Put the ego aside. No one is an […]
Restaurant Life After Covid – Planning Is Key
After the most challenging year ever for every independent and chain restaurant alike , hotels, B&Bs, and hospitality in general, coming into mid to late 2021 and beyond will take one main thing: planning. Covid restrictions were followed by some PPP loans to help – emphasis on help, not make full – but sales […]
After COVID Shutdowns Earn Trust and Don’t Forget to Refresh Your Business Plan
As Fort Lauderdale and Florida opens, time is now to not just emerge from restaurant shut downs, but to soar. That may sound pie-in-the-sky when so much is going on, but it’s a must to survive and to distance yourself from the competition. Post your protocols everywhere – Facebook, Google, your website. Guests want […]
