Hospitality Episodes

Send us Fan Mail Empty hotel rooms don’t roll over to next week, and a slow variance deck won’t save tonight’s margin. We dig into what hospitality FPNA should look like when the business needs real-time decisions on staffing, purchasing, pricing, capacity, and guest service, not just reporting after the fact. If you’ve ever stared at “labor is unfavorable” and still didn’t know what to do next, this is built for you. We start with a simple shift that changes everything: begin with the opera...

Send us Fan Mail Episode # 158: A hotel room empty tonight is not “lost demand” on a spreadsheet. It’s gone forever. That one reality makes hospitality one of the clearest places where FP&A has to operate in real time, not on last month’s variance deck. We start with the big strategic priorities: building demand sensing forecasts that update with signals like booking pace, cancellations, group sales pipelines, local events, weather, transportation constraints, competitor pricing, and dig...