Next to golf, F&B is the most serious issue facing any club (and usually the source of most member discontent, if there is any). Looking at what’s in your hands, you may be asking yourself, “What is this?” Let me explain. When we launched Club & Resort Business in 2005, it was clear to us…
Star of the Show
Savvy club managers quickly learn there’s plenty of expertise within their memberships that they can draw on to help them make good decisions when running their clubs. Normally, this means availing yourself of counsel that attorneys or executives in insurance, construction and other businesses can provide on personnel or facilities issues. But when your club…
Idea Exchange
Baseball, Hot Dogs and the DAC Fortuitously, the 125th anniversary of the Detroit Athletic Club (DAC)’s founding, on April 5, 1887, matched up perfectly with this year’s Major League Baseball schedule, which had the Detroit Tigers opening at home on that day with a 1 PM, nationally televised contest against the Boston Red Sox.…
Idea Exchange
More details on these Ideas, and others, available online at clubandresortbusiness.com/category/idea-exchange Halloween with a Twist On October 1, to kick off the Halloween season at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grand Mound, Wash., world-renowned balloon-twisting artist Adam Lee began to turn almost 3,000 inflated balloons, which if laid end-to-end would have covered two-and-a-half miles, into…