Opt-In Housekeeping Model Offers Staff Flexibility, Guest Choice
Housekeepers Clean Stayover Rooms Less Frequently
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Housekeeping models are shifting as the industry progresses through the COVID-19 pandemic, and operators are met with balancing guest preferences with the current labor market. Advertisements
Other brands with similar policies include Marriott International, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and Extended Stay America.
Sheenal Patel, CEO of Arbor Lodging Management, expects all brands will move to an opt-in housekeeping model.
Arbor Lodging Management manages properties under Marriott, Hilton, IHG Hotels & Resorts and Hyatt Hotels Corp. brands as well as independents.
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Warm feelings about human-looking robots can turn icy when bots blunder
If a robot worker makes a mistake on the job, or annoys customers, businesses may not give it a pink slip and a cardboard box for its office belongings, but companies may be forced to shut down these expensive machines, according to a team of researchers.
Knowing how to better design and manage these robots may help service industry firms both avoid losing their investments in the robots, as well as secure an increasingly necessary source of extra help, the team added.
In a series of studies on robots used in service industry settings, such as restaurants and hotels, the researchers found that people’s reactions to robot gaffes may be influenced by whether the robots look like humans, or humanoid; or mostly lack human features, or non-humanoid. The team also uncovered strategies that humanoid robots can use to recover from mistakes with customers, according to Lisa Bolton, professor of marketing a
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SMETHPORT â During the week of Nov. 30, 107 students across DECA District 1 competed virtually in various business events. Smethport DECA had sixteen members compete, with 13 students advancing to the state level.
Those students claiming first place in their respective categories are: August Cox (First Place in Quick Service Restaurant Management); Chase Burdick (First Place in Accounting Applications); Ella Forquer (First Place in Principles of Business Management and Administration); Jenna Gregory (First Place in Retail Merchandising); Brandon Higley and John Adamoski (First Place in Entrepreneurship Team Decision Making); Jordan Pavlock (First Place in Personal Finance Literacy) and Alyn Thomas (First Place in Principles of Marketing).