by Lawrence Baker | Jul 24, 2023 | Industry Voice, Member News
All the nominees are in, and our judges are tallying up the totals to honor the 2023 Hospitality Industry Awards winners for Chef, Restaurateur and Manager of the Year! Excitingly, we’ve added two new categories: the Face of Diversity Award and the Community...
by Lawrence Baker | Sep 8, 2021 | BLOG, Industry Voice, News, Scams, Alerts
You may have seen the news lately that New Mexico Restaurant Association Member Ten Thousand Waves recently enacted vaccination requirements for lodging, indoor dining, and spa guests. You may have also wondered how that worked out for them. In what many considered a...
by Lawrence Baker | Jun 17, 2021 | BLOG, Industry Voice, Notes from the CEO and Chair, Uncategorized
Restaurants were blessed to have money carved out just for the losses suffered by the industry in the American Rescue Plan. The Restaurant Revitalization Fund set aside $27 billion for an industry that lost $270 Billion. It was not enough, but it was something. I...
by Lawrence Baker | Sep 18, 2020 | BLOG, Industry Voice, News, Scams, Alerts, Notes from the CEO and Chair, Restaurant Regulations
Here are some Sobering Statistics from September 2020. So much has changed for all of us in the last six months. It is time to take a look at the raw numbers of our industry and how we are all being affected. To be sure, restaurants are taking the virus seriously. We...
by Lawrence Baker | Mar 17, 2020 | Industry Voice
By: Brian Canlis, Canlis Restaurant – Seattle, Wa. Like many of you, my family, my colleagues, and I have been in a state of shock. Our restaurant, Canlis, is in Seattle which, as you probably know, was the first U.S. city to be hit by the coronavirus...
by Lawrence Baker | Jan 14, 2020 | BLOG, Industry Voice
A Story of Advocacy By George Gundrey Owner, Tomasita’s Santa Fe, Tomasita’s Albuquerque, and the Atrisco Café & Bar, Santa Fe In 2019 the stars aligned to get me involved with advocacy in the political realm in defense of the restaurant industry. I am so glad I...
