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🏆 Folio, dubbed the "Amazon for hotels," offers a mobile-friendly procurement platform for hotel operations, streamlining inventory management. Affixify is a free-to-use hotel tech selection platform using an algorithm to match hotels with vendors. Away Together, a mobile app developed by a couple, enhances guest communication through real-time updates and offers geofenced social connections. Bon App, a POS system with a 20-minute setup, focuses on user-friendliness and cost-cutting via QR code ordering. Directful, an AI marketing platform, predicts guest booking patterns, sending direct booking texts with a 98% read rate within five minutes. Yipy provides a digital standards management platform for hotels, ensuring compliance with updates and performance tracking.

🛒 Restaurant sales forecast to top $1 trillion; hospitality industry to add 200,000 jobs, total employment reaching 15.7 million. Over two-thirds of hotels face staffing shortages. 62% of hospitality workers experience burnout from unpredictable schedules; 60% of managers report burnout leading up to peak seasons. Shift scheduling software and apps can save hours per week, reduce overtime costs, and improve scheduling forecasting. Flexible scheduling leads to a 25% decrease in turnover. Optimizing scheduling can increase revenue by up to 15%.

💸 Guestline, part of Access Group, enhances its GuestStay product with self-service options and AI, saving time for hotel staff and elevating guest autonomy. The platform lets guests manage reservations, order services like breakfast or parking, and secure restaurant bookings via ResDiary integration. Trials show corporate travelers enjoy the ease of use. Some properties report 25% of restaurant bookings through GuestStay, with plans to add more upsell features in 2024. Digital registration completion averages 31%, and hotels collect more real guest email addresses, encouraging direct repeat bookings over OTAs.