Tag Archive: hospitality

Have You Considered “Greening” Your Pennsylvania Winery or Hospitality Business?

Have you considered “greening” your Pennsylvania Winery or Hospitality Business? If so, you may want to follow in the footsteps of University of California, Davis. Looking to serve as a model for wineries and hospitality industries throughout the nation, UC Davis has launched the world’s “greenest” winery, brewery and foods facility. The [...]

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Pennsylvania’s Winery Neighbors In The Garden State Are Beginning To Flourish.

Pennsylvania’s neighbors in the Garden State of New Jersey have recently begun to emerge as wine producers. With 39 wineries and eight more waiting for licenses, wine production in the state has improved dramatically in recent years. Thus, I look forward to including more posts on New Jersey’s winery/hospitality industry and to address their [...]

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Do Pennsylvania Restauranteurs and Winery Owners Want To Know What’s Hot In 2010?

Are you a “die hard foodie” who aspires to cook, or a well trained culinary arts graduate who desires to open your own restaurant or small chef eatery? Do you already own your own restaurant and are looking to keep pace with what’s trending in the food industry? If so, this may be the right [...]

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Lawmakers and Winemakers Look To Legalize Virtual Wineries

Significant changes may be coming to the wine industry beginning with Washington State. Winemakers are looking to legalize virtual wineries which currently have no defined place within the state’s liquor legislation landscape. Like Pennsylvania, Washington State is one of 18 states to retain monopoly on liquor sales. To read more on the Washington’s [...]

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How To Build Your Winery, Wine Or Hospitality Business While Avoiding Legal Pitfalls

Nothing can replace the feeling of euphoria that comes with selling that first of bottle of wine made from grapes you crushed yourself or perhaps serving that first entree in the restaurant you worked for months to open. Yes, dreams of owning your own winery, restaurant, or hospitality business can be realized even in [...]

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Does Your Pennsylvania Winery, Restaurant, Or Hospitality Business Embrace The Millennials?

Is your winery, restaurant, or hospitality business attracting the new generation of young millennial’s? If so, you’ll not want to miss marketing to this group on their own terms. Just ask them. If you don’t get on this train, it will surely leave the station without you.
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Will Pennsylvania Wine Consumers Swipe and Blow?

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has recently introduced it’s new vending machines aka “wine kiosks” to the Commonwealth. Customers must swipe their ID, blow into a breathalyzer, and look into a security camera to buy their wine. A State employee then verifies that you are who you say you are and that [...]

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Does Your Pennsylvania Wine, Winery, Restaurant Or Hospitality Business Have A Winning Name?

Does your Pennsylvania wine, winery, restaurant or hospitality business have a winning name? In my earlier post, Can A Rose By Any Other Name Still Be A Rose we considered some of the challenges associated with naming your new winery, wine, restaurant or hospitality business. By now, many of you newer entrepreneurs [...]

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Are Pennsylvania Wineries and Restaurants Contributing to Food Borne Illnesses?

Is your restaurant or winery contributing to food borne illnesses? Let’s hope not. But summertime is as good a time as any to discuss ways to avoid food liability claims against your winery, restaurant, or hospitality based business. Ingesting foods that have been contaminated by bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemicals can indeed [...]

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This Is How We Get Our Wine Toast On In Pennsylvania!

If you’re the life of the party and the great “toaster”, you may be interested in joining Pennsylvania Wine Association’s toast competition. If you can write a toast of a 100 words or less, this is a party you surely will not want to miss.
Sixty-two wineries state wide are participating in the Great Pennsylvania [...]

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