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Trade Show Industry Updates: News, Data, Trends

Event Marketer

Over half (54 percent) consider sustainability highly important in their 2025 planning, with 47 percent having established clear sustainability goals and action plans and also focusing on DE&I practices, waste management, and eco-friendly food and beverage options. The audit revealed that 73.3

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Streamlining event detail management with BEOs

Planning Pod

You might know this type of document by another name, like Event Order or Event Resume. A Banquet Event Order (BEO) is a detailed document outlining all the essential information for a specific event. Food and beverage: Menu selections, bar services, and beverage packages. Learn more today! What is a BEO?

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Debunking the Myth of All-in-One Event Management Software with Lindsay Martin-Bilbrey

Attendease

Technology has become more and more part of the event planning landscape, whether to manage registration, event agenda, abstract, AV team, food and beverage, and more… While event planners are eager to find a tech solution that can do all under one roof, the reality is much different. What a foundational platform looks like?

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Planning Pod’s Catering Package Technology Gives Users New Levels of Customization

Planning Pod

When we released our food and beverage tools a couple years ago, those updates were carefully crafted through the process of interviewing real catering industry professionals who roll up their sleeves on the daily to serve people – and our latest launch is no exception. You asked, and we listened!

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10 Cost Saving Tips for Planners

Smart Meetings

Food and Beverage. Modify your menus: It’s sad but true that food is often wasted at meetings. After coming back from an event, spending two weeks going through 250 documents can waste a lot of time,” says McPhee. Meeting professionals and hotels err on the side of more to ensure no one goes hungry. Review accounts daily.

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Best Venue Management Software of 2021: Reviews of the Top 4 Solutions

Planning Pod

When we built Planning Pod, we set out to solve a big problem that many event venues, restaurants and hotels face … juggling too many applications, emails, documents, spreadsheets and even notes, folders and whiteboards to manage their event bookings. Or to add updated food-and-beverage items to both an invoice and a BEO.

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20 Pandemic-Related Changes to Make in the Attendee Journey

Event Farm

You can use an app like Event Farm to control crowds and stagger queuing anywhere a line forms, like registration/check-in, meet-and-greets, product demos, and food/beverage stations. #15: . #14: Queuing tool. 15: Programming tweaks. 16: Networking comfort levels. 20: Compliance reporting.