Join the Greater Miami Beach Hotel Association on Tuesday, November 10th for their annual “Celebrating our Hotels” Fall Virtual Presentation. The event will be broadcasted live from EAST Miami! This year the presentations will feature how hotels are creating safe and comfortable environments and at the same time making guests feel special. They will also hear from a few very special hospitality leaders!  The event will be held virtually and in-person at EAST Miami. All guests attending in-person will be required to wear facial coverings throughout the entire event.  To register in person click here and to view virtually register here.

A Multi-Cultural Perspective - On behalf of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council Co-Chairs Eva Dias (Phoenix Human Capital Solutions LLC.) and André  L. Williams (Law Office of André L. Williams, PA.), you are invited to join in this conversation about how to rebrand the art scene to be more diverse and representative of the multi-cultural community that exists in Miami Beach and the surrounding communities. Advanced registration is required.

Attention restaurant operators! Learn how to slow and prevent the spread of COVID-19 in your restaurant with a FREE, one hour training developed by the FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality, “COVID-19 Restaurant Safety and Compliance".  Training materials are available online in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole and can be accessed at any time. Participants who pass the post-training quiz will be mailed a certificate of course completion to display in their establishments. For more information click here.

Hotel employees who have been furloughed or lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic can now apply for admission into this program. The Hotel Worker Relief Grant Program is a collaboration that brings together three key elements: Higher education in the form of MDC’s grant administration and curriculum activation, local government resources with the assistance of Mayor Gimenez's office, Commissioner Eileen Higgins and the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners, and program development through The Greater Miami and Beaches Hotel Association. Together, this coalition of forces is focusing on providing real support to those in need. For further details click here.

Interested in being a part of a 6-month FREE F.E.E.D. Membership Virtual Bootcamp for local South Florida businesses, sponsored by Wells Fargo? There is still time to apply and receive free access to this virtual event! StartUP FIU Food FEED Virtual Bootcamp offers free online training to F&B business owners most affected by closures and layoffs caused by COVID-19 Pandemic. The six months of free access session includes: online consulting sessions in Marketing, Finance, Operations, and Food & Beverage on weekly online Zoom webinars conducted by industry experts

The F.E.E.D. Membership F&B Virtual Bootcamp will provide you with free online webinars, consulting sessions, and panel conversations regarding local resources for food and beverage businesses. Learn more.

Miami-Dade County commissioners approved a $30 million grant program to boost the county's small restaurants. The Hospitality Industry Grant Program authorizes establishment of a County Attorney $35,000,000.00 business grant program for hospitality industry relief from the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act Coronavirus Relief fund, to provide financial support and assistance to local independently owned and operated restaurants and non-home based caterers impacted by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic; approving term sheet for grant agreement by and among Miami-Dade County, the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, and Florida International University Chaplin School to provide an amount not to exceed $5,000,000.00 in funds from the business grant program to the Hospitality Industry Relief Fund to assist eligible establishments that have had to temporarily cease operations, lay off or furlough employees, or whose businesses have been severely diminished due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and directing County Mayor to negotiate and execute the grant agreement and to provide reports.  This grant program comes just over a week after Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez issued an emergency order closing indoor dining rooms for all restaurants in the county to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus.

Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Hospitality Institute will provide online COVID-19 re-opening training to employees at hundreds of hotels in both the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association and the Greater Miami and the Beaches Hotel Association, as part of the county’s ongoing initiative, The New Normal: A Guide for Residents and Commercial Establishments, issued by Miami-Dade County Mayor and MDC alumnus Carlos Gimenez to safely re-open businesses. The program prepares a “lead trainer” who then provides ongoing training to other employees. 

ONE FAIR WAGE Emergency Fund for Tipped, and Service Workers is raising money for hospitality workers and will be making temporary cash gifts to workers as funding becomes available: 
• To contribute to this cause, please click here 
• To apply for these resources, please click here