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	<description>Hotel food and beverage professionals share experience, skills and commentary. These hotelier blogs reflect a variety of unique career perspectives and real-life workplace stories, observations and opinions.</description>
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		<title>Guard Your Secret Recipe, Not the Secret Service – Maybe</title>
		<link>http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2160</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg McDonough</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[appetizers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart-healthy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[recipe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seared scallops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secret recipe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Use trademarks to protect the brand identity of your company, and keep your recipe a closely guarded secret]]></description>
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		<title>Why Distributor Produce Will Never Be The Same As Local Produce</title>
		<link>http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2157</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoffrey Sagrans</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Purchasing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I always get a good chuckle when they run that Dominos Pizza commercial where a sample panel of people are brought to a tomato field.  The walls pop down and the panel realizes that they are surrounded by acres of red, ripe tomatoes.  The idea is that these vine-ripened tomatoes go into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative Sweet Future: Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2082</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Gebauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cuisine & Menus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The search for healthy, natural sweeteners sometimes seems to involve a whirlwind of information.
Stevia goes back to 1997, when the FDA was actually seizing stevia products and threatening to arrest the owners of stevia companies. But today, as mentioned in Part 1, stevia is widely accepted as a safe, natural sweetener. That doesn&#8217;t make it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Scoop: Being Wrong the Right Way</title>
		<link>http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2151</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chase LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chaseleblanc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[f&b]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadagers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And now I will shed some light on a—not so little—secret of organizational life. There are some over-eager beavers, who deftly scramble up the political and positional ladder, seemingly salivating at the prospect of power. Their mastery of corporate gamesman/woman-ship does not guarantee that they are the “sharpest knives in the drawer.” All too often, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buzz About Hotel F&amp;B Social Media Patterns (SMPs)</title>
		<link>http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2149</link>
		<comments>http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2149#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred DeMicco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These days you have to be scanning the environment to see what guests are saying about you on social networks. 

Be Proactive
You have to these days to protect your turf.  There are &#8220;best practices&#8221; for Online Social Media (OSM) management being used to scan to see in real time what quests are saying about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are Not a Non-Profit Organization—Yet</title>
		<link>http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2141</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol A. Burns (CAB)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospitality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restaurants]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The hospitality industry that is an easy target and normally tapped for donations more often than most, and if you are the one that makes the decision—ouch!
There are so many non-profit organizations in need of support; how do you decide who to support, when the need is so great?  On any given day, the request [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Groupon</title>
		<link>http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2120</link>
		<comments>http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2120#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Bjorkman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you know that I have continued to post cynical opinions about Groupon and other &#8220;flash sale&#8221; sites.
Recently, Groupon was slammed again for not having its own financial house in order.
As I was reading about their IPO, I wondered to myself, and now to you, if running a &#8220;Groupon&#8221; is, by their own standards, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Return on Your Investment</title>
		<link>http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2117</link>
		<comments>http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2117#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Wichowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culinary Education & Careers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[giving back]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to spend my birthday with a group of friends this year in a different kind of way. Through the grapevine we were made aware of a need at the Laura Dester Shelter in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The shelter is a short-term emergency care facility for use while child welfare specialists conduct investigations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Does Your Garden Grow?</title>
		<link>http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2105</link>
		<comments>http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2105#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol A. Burns (CAB)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annuals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perennials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preparation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quality Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Staff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steward]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When hiring and training, think Perennials not Annuals... ]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Attack at Heart Attack Grill</title>
		<link>http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2097</link>
		<comments>http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/?p=2097#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Bjorkman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Restaurants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fast Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heart Attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heart Attack Grill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Triple Bypass Burger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[News flash—sometimes your concept can get &#8220;too real,&#8221; like the time all the monkeys came alive at Rain Forest Cafe and took over the kitchen.  Ok, that did not happen.  For the record, really.
What DID happen is that some poor guy had a full cardiac arrest at the Heart Attack Grill in downtown [...]]]></description>
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