F&B in Hotels - Loss maker or value driver?

Bird & Bird, together with HVS, AlixPartners and EP Business in Hospitality, are pleased to present our next webinar on Thursday 14 December, on the topic “F&B in Hotels: loss maker or value driver?”

Many hoteliers are rightly focused on maximising RevPAR, whether this be occupancy or average rate, as this often enables profitability to be optimised. However, with hotels sometimes gaining 50% or more of revenue from F&B operations, often at little or no profitability, it surely makes sense to find ways both to boost revenue and to increase profitability from all aspects of F&B operations. Our webinar will therefore focus on how the good operators, owners and investors achieve this – and help you to turn loss makers into value drivers.

Scene-setting presentations will be made by Graeme Smith of AlixPartners on the topic Developments in the broader restaurant and bar market and how this might impact hotels, and by Karen Friebe and James Fowler of Bird & Bird on Outsourcing structure options and practical pitfalls. This will be followed by a panel discussion, to be moderated by Russell Kett of HVS.

Panellists include:

• Andrew Stembridge - Executive Director, Iconic Luxury Hotels

• Laura Brinkmann - Senior Vice President, KSL Capital

• Pablo Pimienta - Founder, Riviera Real Estate

• Sir David Michels - Chairman, Michels and Taylor.

More than 400 people attended our last webinar and we look forward to the pleasure of your company this time.

Karen Friebe, Head of Hotels, Hospitality & Leisure – Bird & Bird

Russell Kett, Chairman – HVS

Graeme Smith, Managing Director – AlixPartners

Chris Sheppardson, CEO – EP Business in Hospitality