Mhyanif Lozada and Francine Canelo | PantherNOW Staff Bottoms up: from coffee to wine to other cocktails, FIU Hospitality had plenty to choose from at their Tri-Guild Kickoff. On Aug 22, the three guilds based in the Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management hosted the Tri-Guild Kickoff Party in FIU BBC’s Wine Spectator Restaurant. […]
Francine Canelo / Entertainment Director Introduced after a fall 2021 course, the Coffee Guild at FIU launched earlier this year with the help of two students with a passion for coffee. President Rowan Jacobs, a graduate student in culinary innovation, and Vice President Gianna LaRusso, a junior in hospitality and tourism management, say that the […]
By Elena Key // Staff Writer Coffee, tea, and water make their way into FIU’s Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management by now offering its first ever class that focuses on non-alcoholic drinks. The course “The Business of Coffee, Tea & Non-Alcoholic Beverages” is led by Chef and alum of FIU’s Hospitality program, John […]
Teresa Schuster / Staff Writer New and current FIU students face choices about their future careers, as their jobs, internships, and classes have been halted and industries such as tourism suffer due to the coronavirus pandemic. With this, some may reconsider their career choices and majors. Following the 2008 financial crisis, STEM and health science […]
By Fabian Osorio / Staff Writer The current pandemic has already started to have a major impact on the state’s largest industry, tourism. Florida receives millions of international tourists and the Port of Miami is, for many, the beginning of tropical vacation experience, but tourism and travel make it easier for the novel coronavirus to […]
By: Joshua Ceballos/Investigative Editor The graduate hospitality school wants to lower its English requirements for international students, but some critics argue they’ll set the bar too low. Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management submitted a proposal to the Faculty Senate this week to waive a previous English proficiency test requirement for their Master’s in […]
By: Shadia Karina Charouf / Contributing Writer The Safe Cities Index Report recently published Tokyo, Japan as number one on a list of 10 places, ranking as the safest city to visit in the world in 2019. Although Tokyo was ranked as the number one safest city in the world as of 2019, what […]
By: Victor Jorges/Assistant News Director Thousands of people attend the South Beach Wine and Food Festival every year to taste the latest innovations of the global culinary world. However, few stop to think of one unavoidable component of the festival: the leftovers. The vendors at SOBEWFF produce more than what’s needed to cover the event, […]
By: Imogen Francis/Staff Writer In November 2017, President Trump announced a new policy that restricted American citizens to travel to Cuba. The Trump Administration released a list of hotels, restaurants and shops, which had ties to the Cuban military, that U.S. citizens are no longer permitted to visit. In a White House press briefing, […]
By: Valentina Palm/Contributing Writer Starting in spring 2019, the FIU Chaplin Hospitality and Tourism Management school will become the first to align its curriculum with the competencies established by the National Restaurant Association for a restaurant management class. The class will pilot the implementation of competency-based learning to assess its establishment throughout all school […]
By: Anna Radinsky/Assistant News Director Members of the community can now walk across the five elements on the longest reflexology path on the U.S. east coast at the Biscayne Bay campus. The Student Government Council at BBC’s Reflexology Path ribbon cutting ceremony occurred on Thursday, Aug. 23 to celebrate the official opening of the […]
