April Loss Prevention Newsletter

Welcome to the
Inaugural Edition of the
HospitalityLawyer.com
Loss Prevention Newsletter!

At HospitalityLawyer.com, we are continuously striving to meet the hospitality industry's legal, safety, and security needs. With that goal in mind, we are introducing a monthly Loss Prevention Newsletter.

Each edition of the newsletter will feature articles on loss prevention issues that impact the industry today. We also are introducing the Product Showcase, which highlights a particular company's products or services that will be beneficial to the hospitality industry. Each month we will also spotlight a loss prevention expert. This month, Skip Brandt, Director of Security at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers, is featured.

We hope you enjoy the first edition of HospitalityLawyer.com's Loss Prevention Newsletter.

Stephen Barth
Founder of HospitalityLawyer.com

Save the Date!
Hospitality Loss Prevention Seminar
Denver, Colorado
May 31, 2007

On May 31, 2007, HospitalityLawyer.com, in coordination with Sage Hospitality and the Colorado Hotel & Lodging Association, will host the first in a series of Loss Prevention Conferences for 2007 in Denver, Colorado.

The Conference will be held at:

The Curtis Hotel
1405 Curtis Street
Denver, Colorado 80202
1 (800) 525-6651

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Conference Schedule

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Think Carefully Before You
Point Swords at Your Customers:
A Review of the Law of "Dangerous Conditions"

By: Christian Stegmaier
Collins & Lacy
(803) 255-0454
cstegmaier@collinsandlacy.com

I recently read with interest about the opening of Kobe Club, a steakhouse in New York City. The menu at Kobe Club advertises the very tasty - but hugely expensive - Kobe beef, along with Australian and American wagyu. This restaurant encourages discerning carnivores to compare and contrast these different sources by making small cuts available and assembling a “samurai’s flight” of four-ounce tasting portions of Australian, American and Japanese wagyu, plus six ounces of American prime beef, for $190. For $295, there’s an “emperor’s flight” of four ounces each of Kobe fillet and strip loin and 10 ounces of Kobe rib-eye. Needless to say, dinner at Kobe Club would be a very expensive venture.

What particularly piqued my interest about this restaurant is the fact that hanging upside down from the ceiling in the nearly pitch-black dining room are sharp, gleaming samurai swords - about 2,000 of them.

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Fisher & Phillips' David Whitlock to speak at
Dine America Conference

HOUSTON, TEXAS – HospitalityLawyer.com is sponsoring the session “Immigration Reform,” presented by David Whitlock with the law firm Fisher & Phillips, at the Dine America Conference. The Dine America Conference attracts over 200 executives from the quick-service and full-service restaurant industries.

The immigration topic remains a pressing issue in today’s media. However, because the hospitality industry is so labor-intensive, knowledge of work force and immigration laws is even more important for hospitality owners and operators.

"Product Showcase"

Forensic Analytical
Russ Carlin
Corporate Director Business Development
17400 Southwest Upper Boones Ferry Rd.
Durham, Oregon 97224
(503) 595-1001
russcarlin@forensica.com

Forensic Analytical Consulting Services is an environmental consulting firm that provides a wide range of industrial hygiene services to its clients nationally.

Established in 1986, our services include professional management of asbestos, lead, mold and water intrusion, indoor environmental quality, environmental health and safety management and litigation support.

These services are available to owners in key industry sectors to include the construction trades, healthcare, utilities, industrial, commercial, retail, insurance, hospitality, government, financial, legal and other key areas in which the protection of public health is valued.

"Who You Should Know"
Loss Prevention Spotlight

Skip Brandt, CPP, JP
Director of Security
Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers

Skip Brandt is a security professional with more than two decades of security experience.

He provides intelligence and support to the US Secret Service, Department of State Diplomatic Security and US Marshals on White House, Foreign Head of State and high-profile dignitaries visiting the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and other Starwood properties. Additionally, he represents the commercial sector, lodging industry in the Emergency Support Function-18 (ESF-18) with the Massachusetts Emergency Management Administration (MEMA).

You Could be Criminally Liable
(and not even know it!)

By: Patrick Buckhoff
Accelerator Consulting Group
(281) 355-1202
PBuckhoff@AccleratorCG.com

Illegal immigration is the hottest topic right now, not only in the news, but in Washington, DC and every state house in the nation. While it appears that nothing is going to get done anytime soon, watch out! The politicians will try to show they are doing something by making a show at enforcing the laws already in place. This show of force is something that every employer needs to be aware of and take steps to make sure they are not at risk.

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