Sunday, September 19, 2010

Ohio Domino's is first in U.S. to go 24-hours

CINCINNATI — Domino's Pizza Inc. says a franchise store in southwest Ohio is the first of its U.S. stores to remain open 24 hours a day.

A manager of the store near the University of Dayton campus says it began staying open 24 hours about a month ago. Manager Steve Martin says the store is offering a breakfast pizza with toppings like eggs, cheese and bacon.

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St. Louis Sheraton owner files for bankruptcy

The owner of the Sheraton St. Louis City Center Hotel & Suites filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday, putting off a foreclosure auction that was scheduled for hours later.
Breckenridge Edison Development, owner of the 288-room hotel at 400 S. 14th St., lists assets of about $14 million and liabilities of $33 million.

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Sea Island execs got big bonuses before bankruptcy

Court filings show Sea Island Company executives were paid fat bonuses in the year before the coastal Georgia resort operator filed for bankruptcy protection.


The bonuses — totaling $510,000 and shared by five Sea Island executives — came up during a meeting of creditors in the Chapter 11 case Wednesday in Brunswick. The heftiest bonus was $222,000 paid earlier this year to David Bansmer, Sea Island Company's president. Bansmer says he understands the bonuses could upset people after the company eliminated jobs and cut salaries.

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Most NY hotels refuse to host Ahmadinejad - Hilton does

By: Eric Hertha, Hospitality Business News
September 19,2010

According to the Foreign Affairs Committe of The National Council of Resistance of Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has found it almost impossible to reserve a room at any of the normal New York hotels that usually accomodate world leaders. According to the article, Ahmadinejad is scheduled to attend a UN General Assembly meeting next week in New York.


Weary of facing the same level of difficulty in reserving hotels as last year, the clerical regime had ordered its permanent representative at the UN since July to start searching for hotels and use all necessary means to reserve rooms. But, despite the extensive efforts and investments by Ahmadinejad’s deputy chief of ceremonies, prominent hotels in New York have refused to host the clerical regime’s president, the article said.

Mohammad Torshizi, the regime’s permanent representative at the UN has told Tehran in a report, “In view of some political issues, it is very difficult to find hotels for the Islamic Republic. The permanent UN representative office has with extreme difficulty succeeded in reserving rooms at Hilton in Manhattan, but we cannot count on it until the day we are actually there because pressures can lead to cancellation. Of course, the hotel has limited space and is small. It is not meant for the presidency.”

The article states that the regime’s UN envoy is reportedly working even harder to keep the reservation in the small Manhattan hotel a secret, fearing a backlash by New York residents against the hotel’s management as there is widespread anger in the city against Ahmadinejad’s visit.