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InBev's Cahillane Added as Keynote Speaker at "The Show"

The Nightclub & Bar/Beverage Retailer Beverage & Food Convention and Trade Show (“The Show”) in Las Vegas, March 5-8, 2006, has added Steve Cahillane, Chief Commercial Officer for InBev Nevada, as a keynote speaker.

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Top 100 Operators Back by Popular Demand

Panel Discussions at “The Show” to Be Led by Some of the Top 100 Operators


Attendees of “The Show” in Las Vegas this year will absorb insights from the masters of the on-premise game in panel discussions led by some of the Nightclub & Bar Editor’s Choice Top 100 bar and club owners and operators. Topics will range from marketing and promotional ideas to bar/club concepts to roundtable Q&A discussions designed to tackle myriad issues facing the industry today.

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Promotions Analyzed In Depth at “The Show”

Don’t Miss the Promo Idea Exchange


“The nightlife business is very lone wolf,” says Jonathan Ressler, president of Big Fat Inc. and program leader for the always-popular Promo Idea Exchange, one of the sessions focusing on profiting from smart promotions at “The Show” in Las Vegas.


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Keep it Safe, Stupid

Safety & Legal Session at “The Show” is a Must


It is hard enough for a club to keep its doors open for the first six months, and a lawsuit can kill even the tigers in this trade. Accordingly, the Safety & Legal session is one of the most highly attended and highly recommended at “The Show” in Las Vegas.


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The Profit Explosion of Double Dynamite

PR-Charged Promos Session Planned for “The Show”


Returning again this March to “The Show” in Las Vegas, Laura Pennino, of Pennino and Partners, is one of the industry’s best innovators in public relations. In her session, Double Dynamite: PR-Charged Promos, she will share tips of the necessity of well-rounded event planning and its ability to generate revenue. Pennino also will be hosting The Worst Happens, a look at disasters from hurricanes to bar fights. “The biggest benefit is that (attendees) get to learn from each other,” she says. “The attendees share ideas with each other using the workshop leader as a facilitator.”


To learn more about “The Show” or to register, visit nightclub.com.

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Young Guns Blazing

New Session at “The Show” Fires and Hits its Target


Simply put, these are the guys who most everyone envies. Youth, ambition and talent made success for these gentlemen. Joined at “The Show” in Las Vegas this year by several other “youngsters” to the industry, Billy Dec, one of America’s most successful young entrepreneurs as owner of Rockit Ranch and Le Passage in Chicago, will speak at this year’s newest session, Young Guns.


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Power Lunch Rocks Sunday

Pre-Conference Profile

 

This year at “The Show,” there is added incentive to sign up for Pre-Conference sessions in the first-ever Power Lunch that is included with Pre-Conference registration. This working luncheon (11:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 5th, in Ballroom F/G of the Las Vegas Hilton) sets the stage for the keynote addresses as well as the entire trade show and convention. A trio of hospitality speakers, Yard House CEO Steele Platt, Harrah’s Vice President of Food and Beverage Brian Yost and Mike Milner, former executive director of nightclubs for MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas, will host the event; bringing together all three of the hospitality segments for a discussion of the beverage common denominator.


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Overhauling Your Beverage Program

Pre-Confence Profile


In Overhauling Your Beverage Program, one of the new Pre-Conference Workshops at “The Show” in Las Vegas, Robert Plotkin brings his expertise as a mixologist, spirits writer. author and renowned beverage consultant to bear on helping venue operators increase guest satisfaction and build repeat business.


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Hotel Restaurant & Gaming

Pre-Conference Profile


Hotel Restaurant & Gaming (HR&G), one of the new Pre-Conference Workshops at “The Show” in Las Vegas, provides bar managers with the information they need to vanquish the competition back home. HR&G encompasses operational subjects from extraordinary service and neighborhood marketing to new food and beverage innovation in hotels and how global brands cash in on hot consumer trends.


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Digital Revolution

Pre-Conference Profile


The all-new Digital Revolution workshop, one of the Pre-Conference Workshops at “The Show” in Las Vegas, gets you, or a key employee, up to speed fast on how the hospitality industry can best use AV displays to influence, entertain and engage patrons. In this all-day, technology-centered trek, Promo Only President Jim Robinson will assist operators in matching music and video to their unique demographics, while CMS President Wyatt Magnum will cover the ways to perfect music presentation, within a wide range of venue settings and budgets.

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Promotional Powerhouse

Pre-Conference Profile


Promotional Powerhouse, one of the Pre-Conference Workshops at “The Show” in Las Vegas, is geared solely to increasing bar, club and resort sales by showing owner/operators how to show guests an action-packed time. Special highlights include a Q&A session with peers coast to coast and a socially inspirational Power Happy Hour with other operators and some of America’s best in-house promoters in attendance.


To learn more about “The Show” or to register, visit nightclub.com.

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Mike Milner to Speak at “The Show”

Keynote Power Lunch Profile

Mike Milner, former executive director of nightclubs for the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, has overseen three of the top nightlife venues in Las Vegas in Studio 54, Tabu Ultra Lounge and Teatro. In an international gaming and nightclub destination to rival any in the world, Milner’s clubs have played host to hundreds of thousands of guests each year.

 

This year, attendees are invited to take part in a pre-keynote “Power Lunch.” Milner, Yard House restaurant Founder and CEO Steele Platt and Harrah’s Vice President of Food and Beverage Brian Yost will host an event, bringing together three of hospitality’s top professionals, one from each of the three hospitality segments, for a discussion of the beverage common denominator.

 

The Power Lunch will set the stage for the keynote addresses as well as the entire trade show and convention.

 

To learn more about “The Show” or to register, visit nightclub.com.

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Brian Yost to Speak at “The Show”

Keynote Power Lunch Profile


Brian Yost is a popular and frequent speaker at Nightclub & Bar show events, with more than 15 years of experience as a vice president of beverage sales for Marriott International to his credit before joining Harrah’s Las Vegas recently as vice president of F&B.

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Steele Platt to Speak at “The Show”

Keynote Power Lunch Profile


With more than 250 beer taps behind the bar of his flagship Long Beach Yard House restaurant, Steele Platt is widely recognized as an expert on beer sales in the on-premise channel. His Yard House restaurant chain currently ranks among the Top 400 Restaurant Chains in the United States as well as among the nation’s Top 10 Restaurant Chains with the highest average unit sales volume.


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Viking Range Corp. Joins “The Show”

Culinary Concepts Add Kick to Bottom Line


Maximizing profit in bars, clubs restaurants and off-premise retail establishments by improving every facet of operation is the mission of the Nightclub & Bar/Beverage Retailer Beverage & Food Convention and Trade Show (“The Show”) in Las Vegas, March 5-8, 2006.

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Covet Thy Neighborhood Market!
The Industry’s Best Share Marketing Magic

Bob Purple, senior VP of Taffer Dynamics Inc., has a passion for proven principles for making money, with Taffer Dynamics’ proprietary seven-step Neighborhood Marketing Process that can put your venue on top. In this powerful program at ‘The Show,’ venue owners, managers and other professionals learn the famous Taffer Dynamics system for data gathering, developing marketing conclusions, marketing strategies and creating targeted, highly effective tactics that will change your business.
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Hit the Hub of Hospitality
‘The Show’ is Event Of The Year

“The Show” is called the Hub of Hospitality because it is the single event that brings together all segments of the industry, including suppliers, bars, taverns, restaurants, hotels, casinos, resorts, private and military clubs. It’s the largest event of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, and fun and profitable ideas and networking opportunities abound.
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Get It and Grow
‘The Show’ Exhibit Hall Has it All in Products and Services

The next important spirit trend, the latest promotions, products and services to wow your customers and enhance your bottom line all will be found in the exhibit hall at the Nightclub & Bar Show in Las Vegas. With more than 2,000 exhibit booths, the show offers two full days to shop for the latest products and services to revolutionize your venue back home.
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Wisdom and Insight for On-Premise Operators


The CEOs of three of the world's leading beer, wine and spirits companies will offer the nation's bar and nightclub owners and operators some of the wisdom and insight behind their combined billions of dollars in sales and universal brand success at the annual Nightclub & Bar Convention & Trade Show in Las Vegas next March 5-8. 
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The Places To Be
This Year's Show Party Pace is Right on the Money

What happens when you put all of the people in the country who throw some of the best parties in the world several times a year, all of the liquor, beer and wine companies, some of the world's greatest DJs and thousands of people out for a good time, in the same room?
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Spoken Like an Expert
These People Want to Increase Your Profits


Education. It's why thousands of bar, club and restaurant operators and retailers come to "The Show" each year, and it's what they find in the form of 2,000-plus new innovations in the products and services in the exhibit hall and in the nearly 80 seminars and sessions offered, from the Pre-Conference Workshops to the Full Program.
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All Business in Rock Vegas
Four New Sessions Bolster Pre-Conference Line-up

There are show goers, and then there are "show goers" to the annual Nightclub & Bar Beverage & Food Convention & Trade Show ("The Show") in Sin City Las Vegas (March 5-8).

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$tack the Deck
It's a Full House of Profit Programs at 'The Show' 2006

With all of the benefits of the full program structure this year, it seems like Christmas all over again. The same favorite speakers are returning, from Jon Taffer's sure-to-be-fired-up intro and speech on crushing the competition to Patrick Henry's valuable keys to solid sales. The best and the brightest in the industry will provide information on everything from safety and liability to music systems and lighting.
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Managing Costs Through Difficult Times
More Strategies for Controlling Costs in Store in Las Vegas

A Game of Inches
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Tough All Over
Navigating Tough Economic Times

Recession Management
Driving Profits in a Slow Economy

Avoid the 5 Deadly Mistakes of Loyalty Marketing
Do it Right or Not at All

Back to Basics
5 Ways to Use Your POS System to Save Time

 










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