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Black Friday has become Black November.
The National Retail Federation (NRF) expects 164 million people to shop over the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Before the end of October, 39% of consumers started their holiday shopping. The shopping chaos will only pick up this month as shoppers search for the best available deals.
Here is a hospitality career you may not have ever considered: venue management. When you attend a sporting event, concert, conference, or convention, you are stepping into a world that mixes operations with facility management, food and beverage management, event management, and more.
The Johnson & Wales University College of Online Education is pleased to announce a Thankful Essay Contest for the month of November. The contest is open to all current JWU Online students, including undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students.
You all have a story to tell and we’d love to hear more about your career and educational journey.
Prompt: Who has influenced your education and/or career? Essays should be at least 500 words and demonstrate originality, adherence to theme, and proper grammar.
For most, fast-food slang when ordering has become almost a second language. “I’ll get a number two with an extra side of fries but hold the pickles on the burger” or “one iced venti with two pumps of caramel and whole milk, please” is common lingo these days. But sometimes if you listen closely, you might catch something out of, well, order.
“I’ll get the Land, Sea, and Air Burger with a McAffogato, please.”
As it turns out, there’s an entire world of fast-food ordering that most people don’t know about ... the world of secret menus.
Fashion trends come and go, but the way people prefer to invest in new clothing has largely remained the same over the past few decades—until just recently. Online shopping has brought a whole new element of convenience to the experience, of course, but that's just the beginning. Increasingly, young shoppers take pride in finding unique secondhand items in thrift stores and through various smartphone applications.
Today, if you walked a mile in Mark Brewington’s shoes, you’d likely end up with your toes in the Pacific Ocean. The double Johnson & Wales University alum, ’11, ’18 MBA – Hospitality, (triple alum if you count his '08 associate degree in culinary arts) lives within a few blocks of the beach and keeps his horses on a horse farm outside of San Diego.
An elevated heart rate. Sweaty palms. Clenched teeth. A loud, blood-curdling scream.
For the main character of a horror movie, these are the telltale indicators of fear. For those of us lucky enough to be sitting on the couch watching the movie, they induce more excitement than fear.
A trade war is an economic conflict in which states increase trade barriers against each other, usually in the form of tariffs. The ultimate purpose of participating in a trade war is generally to improve imports or exports for the participating countries. However, increasing the cost of imports is a significant risk which often occurs when the involved nations refuse to compromise. Historically trade wars have led to military conflicts, although this is rarely the case in modern times.
Historical Trade Wars
For many Americans, election security is a top-of-mind concern. According to a report published by the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan law and policy institute, the cyberattacks in 2016 highlighted large weaknesses in voting systems across the country, further exposing our elections to outside influence.
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