The AA has awarded luxury Essex hotel Wivenhoe House four stars and its restaurant, Signatures, two rosettes, to put the hotel among the best in East Anglia.

Self-service solutions can streamline efficiency and enhance guest satisfaction only if you know the rules for success. Following are six ways to maximise the value of your kiosk investment.

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Agilysys systems in stores at the Rugby Football Union (RFU) Twickenham have been set up to integrate with the Pennies Foundation. 

Pennies is a charity, which by offering shoppers the option to round-up Chip & Pin transactions to the nearest pound, supports worthy causes associated with the RFU and beyond. Allowing shoppers to contribute in this way as contributed to Pennies donations passing £1m.

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As the old saying goes, ‘You don’t know what you don’t know.’ Yet, restaurant managers make critical decisions every day based on limited information. Some rely on spreadsheets; others on assumptions or ‘gut’ feeling. The problem with the former is that the picture they portray is sometimes incomplete; or worse, misleading and decisions based on hunches aren’t driven by data at all. 

In the final quarter of 2012, hoteliers are looking ahead to the new year, and many are considering technology purchases. Although some of the latest technology has a big ‘wow’ factor, it’s critical to make smart choices, selecting solutions that will help streamline efficiency and decrease costs — or at least keep them in line.