Hospitality World

Tiki often provokes visions of sandy beaches, cocktail umbrellas and dreams of never-ending vacations.  Until recently, many of the tropical drinks available around the UK over the past few decades have been anything but enticing. Often sickly sweet, neon-hued and blended into oblivion, tiki is, within the last years, finally starting to pull itself out of that cloying rut. For those who are only familiar with the sugary drinks of sandy-floored huts, it may be difficult to draw the connection between tiki and craft cocktails. Turns out, these beachy drinks have quite the history. 1. Tiki was inspired by Polynesia. Beach of St. Thomas bar When you picture yourself on the beach of St. Thomas, what do you have in your hand? A  Piña Colada  or a  Mai Tai —perhaps even a  Painkiller ? Though rum is a popular export throughout the Caribbean, tiki cocktails weren’t originally inspired by the beaches of St. Thomas or Jamaica. Instead, Polynesia, a g...

Alcohol is probably one of the most controversial product in terms of health, age, laws or cause of accidents. 1 - The word “toast,” which means wishing good health originated in ancient Rome. A piece of toasted bread was literally dropped into wine back then. 2 - The soil of one of the vineyards in France is considered so precious that it is mandatory for workers to scrape the soil off their shoes before they leave. 3 - Anyone under the age of 21 should be careful of taking out trash bags in Missouri. If you are under 21 and the garbage contains an empty bottle of alcohol, you can be charged with illegal possession of alcohol. 4 - Most people think that drinking alcohol raises the body temperature. Alcohol actually lowers the body temperature. 5 - Here is a little surprise : The national anthem of United States “The Star Spangled Banner,” was written to the tune of a drinking song. 6 - Although “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog...

A French bartender has been convicted of manslaughter after serving a man 56 shots in one sitting, which led to the man’s death. Renaud Prudhomme, 56, downed the shots at a bar called Starter in the central French town of Clermont-Ferrand, as reported by The Telegraph. After returning home, the emergency services were called and Mr Prudhomme died the following day in hospital. Bartender Gilles Crepin, 47, received a four month suspended sentence at a French court on Wednesday and was banned from working in a bar for a year. Crepin’s lawyer, Renaud Portejoie, said his client was not responsible for the Prudhomme’s death, arguing that it was the man’s daughter that had persuaded him to break the record. He also cited Prudhomme’s existing respiratory and alcohol abuse problems. While Crepin is understood to be appealing the ban, he admitted he had made a mistake by displaying the shots record on a noticeboard at the bar. Antoine Portal, a lawyer for Prudhomme’s daughter, said ...

KPI – Key Performance Indicators Key Performance Indicators are used in four main areas: Revenue improvement Cost reduction Process cycle-time improvement Increased customer satisfaction The following are KPI examples from real-life scenarios. Using these KPIs will benefit in reducing overheads, errors, delays and costs. Business Process – Key Performance Indicators The following are KPI examples for gauging business process performance: Percentage of processes where completion falls within +/- 5% of the estimated completion Average process overdue time Percentage of overdue processes Average process age Percentage of processes where the actual number assigned resources is less than planned number of assigned resources Sum of costs of “killed” / stopped active processes Average time to complete task Sum of deviation of time (e.g. in days) against planned schedule of all active projects Service Level Agreement (SLA) – Key Performance Indicators ...

1. There is more to Portuguese wine than just port. While port is what put Portugal on the world wine map, today there are many winemakers producing dry wines -- red, white, rose, and even sparkling wine. 2. A Portuguese dry wine is not port. Even if a traditional Port producer makes a dry wine. What's the difference between port and dry wine? Port is what's called a fortified wine, meaning it has been beefed up by adding a wine spirit, such as brandy, during the fermentation process that turns grape juice into wine. The brandy stops the fermentation cold, before all of the sugar in the grape juice is converted into alcohol. This is why ports are sweet, and a dessert wine. Even though fermentation is halted, the brandy increases the alcohol level of the port, and a fortified wine is the result. The dry wines are fermented dry and are not sweet. No wine spirit or brandy is added. They are made just like any other dry wine. 3. Portuguese wine equals value.   One ad...

Bacardi: Company founder Don Facundo Bacardi Masso bought his first rum distillery in Cuba for 3,500 pesos. Wars, natural disasters, bankruptcy and exile have failed to tame the Bacardí family spirit. Instead, with each knock-back, they have remained strong, determined and passionate. Why? Because they have always believed in the quality of their rum. Their faith was first rewarded with a Gold Medal at the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876 and, since then, BACARDÍ rum has earned more than 550 awards for taste, quality and innovation. Today, according to independent research conducted and audited in May 2012, BACARDÍ is the top-selling and most awarded rum in the world, as well as the world’s most awarded spirit. Want to know why the Bacardi logo is a bat? Bacardi is the only rum that uses a free-tailed bat as its logo. There are two main reasons for this. The first is the bat's relation to sugar cane. Sugar cane is used in the production of Bacardi rum (as w...