Cleanliness should be top-of-mind for any and all professionals in the hospitality industry. It’s especially important for innkeepers and their staff to know how to clean the property properly. This ensures a safe, healthy environment for them and their guests. That’s why we created this blog – to provide you with some of the top cleaning tips for bed and breakfasts.Read More
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3 of the Best Tips to Cook up a Bed and Breakfast Menu
You have numerous opportunities to set your inn apart from the competition, especially compared to chain hotels. Offering a unique and enticing bed and breakfast menu is one of them! Nobody wants to wake up to a bland array of pre-frozen foods with no effort involved. Guests look forward to breakfasts that beckon them forwardRead More
Addiction — everywhere else but here?
It has been a while since that topic was my professional concern. I worked at the Brattleboro Retreat, in Brattleboro, VT as an intern in Psychology, and then as a psychologist/therapist in their chemical addiction programs. It was an eye-opening experience, followed by my work with families and in-patients at a detox facility in MassachusettsRead More
Making the Match: Finding the Buyer for an Inn
Or, where is that someone who loves the inn as much as you did, once? When we start off the Seminar for Future Innkeepers, I casually mention that if I can talk you out of wanting to be inn owners I feel I have been successful! Why? Because to be an innkeeper you have to haveRead More
Aspiring Innkeepers, Take Note
It occurred to me, as leaves drily rustled under my steps and the sun broke through naked trees to throw shadows across my path, that I really don’t know or understand what aspiring innkeepers take away when they attend a seminar. What made me think of that was conversations I’ve had lately with seminar graduates, when IRead More
Guests, and how to keep them coming
When we owned the Three Mountain Inn in Jamaica, Vermont, I was confronted with the fact that I had never been an innkeeper, and really had no idea what the daily schedule for an innkeeper would look like. I quickly learned how to smile (and mean it), be it on the telephone, or greeting aRead More