CHART CHART CHART CHART

Recommended Resources

Access to trusted and proven solution-providers is a valuable part of CHART. The top-notch, member-recommended companies listed below understand the challenges facing hospitality training professionals, and are ready to help!

Resource Gallery Vendors

Filter by categories:  

American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute

AHLEI — Training for every step of every hospitality career.

Find the perfect hospitality training, education, and professional certification resources for yourself, your staff, or your students.  Build your own career training path, or work with an AHLEI sales manager to select the best mix of programs for your school or organization.

Hospitality certification provides recognition of mastery of professional knowledge and skills at every level of your hospitality career. AHLEI provides the study materials and administers the certification process for nearly 30 certification designations trademarked by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA).

Contact Jennifer Bonilla Email: jbonilla@ahlei.org/ Telephone:407-999-8138

Website Link: ahlei.org

CrunchTime!

 

CrunchTime! provides a comprehensive restaurant operations platform that simplifies and automates restaurant operations. By driving the flow of information throughout the organization, CrunchTime ensures operators make timely, fact-based decisions that help brands reduce food and beverage costs, drive labor efficiencies, develop and retain talent, and better manage the quality and consistency of their foodservice operations. For over 25 years, CrunchTime has enabled restaurants chains of all sizes to scale efficiently and save money.

Contact Information: Cindy Poulos

Email: CindyPoulos@crunchtime.com

Website: crunchtime.com

 

 

Delightree

The one app that handles everything.

Train and manage your frontline across locations, with easily buildable SOPs, checklists, and reporting.

Powerful features that empower your frontline teams.

Built specifically for multi-location & franchise businesses. Organize, share & update all your company knowledge in real-time.

Website: Delightree

franconnect

Changing the way companies communicate and develop employees both onsite and remotely.

Email Kelsey Smith for more information.

Website: franconnect

Home of Training

Home of Training is a Learning Management System that assigns, tracks, and trains your team. We provide ANSI Food, Alcohol, Sexual Harassment, Human Trafficking and 100 additional stock courses. Additionally, we offer custom training, licensing, and uploading your own courses.

Contact: Macauley Mooney

Website: Home of Training

IFBTA (International Food and Beverage Technology Association)

The International Food and Beverage Technology Association (IFBTA) is the place to network with your peers and leverage ideas to take your business and professional development to the next level. Whether you are an operator, supplier, consultant, member of the press, association representative, educator, or student, the IFBTA is the place where every voice counts and everyone has a seat at the table.

For information, Email: info@ifbta.org 1-(800) 277-2017

Website: ifbta.org

Inkling

Inkling is a global leader in modern learning solutions that deliver knowledge to users at workspeed. Powerful and easy-to-use, Inkling facilitates real-time, impactful learning – anytime, anywhere and on any device – that helps employees do their jobs better. Leading brands with large, distributed workforces trust Inkling to efficiently and effectively create, distribute and measure effectiveness of learning to drive operational excellence, build high-performance organizations and deliver business results. Inkling has been named a Hot Vendor™ in Learning by Aragon Research, a Training Industry Top 20™ Training Delivery Company, and has earned several Excellence in Technology awards from Brandon Hall Group for unique and emerging learning technology, advancements in mobile learning and content management technology. Founded in 2009, Inkling is based in San Francisco.

Contact Information: Katie Andereck Email: kandereck@inkling.com

Website: inkling.com

Build Skills Faster!

Get workers job-ready faster and easier than ever before with SkillMill, the world leader in always-on immersive skilled trades training.

Close the Skills Gap

Faster Make anyone job-ready in weeks, not years, to accelerate their trades career success.

Easier Avoid the time and effort of sustaining a trades training program so you can focus on your business and mission.

Better Keep learners engaged and improving to ensure successful trades training outcomes.

Website: Interplay Learning

Legacy

At Legacy, we know that the best events are more than talking heads. Communicating a message is vital, but creating a memorable experience both solidifies your message and keeps people coming back. We leverage the newest and best event technologies to create immersive, participatory experiences for your attendees. You only get one first impression… We want to make sure that it is the best possible first impression. Legacy Event Productions uses only the finest quality audio and lighting components to insure that your message is as clear as possible. We carry and implement the gold ­standard of audio equipment because we understand that your biggest priority is to be heard and understood. We supply brands that represent the industry standard: Shure, Mackie, QSC, JBL, Yamaha, and many more.

Contact Information: Todd Horchner  Email: Todd@legacyeventproductions.com  /Telephone: 972-813-9750

Website: legacyeventproductions.com

Maritz

People drive business. We know what drives people.

When people are at their best, your business performs its best. Increased sales, higher productivity, improved customer satisfaction, deeper employee engagement. When you put people at the centerof your business, everyone wins.

Email Jamie Murdock for more information.

Website:Maritz

Modern Training

Modern Training helps you execute your L&D strategy with premium learning content. Explore our off-the-shelf content, custom content, and full L&D support options at our website, plus view demos and schedule time to meet

Email Matt Nelson for more information. (970) 690-0204

Website: Modern Training

Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance (MFHA)

Building Culturally Intelligent Brands & Leaders

The Mission of MFHA is to bring the economic benefits of diversity and inclusion to the food and hospitality industry by building bridges and delivering solutions. MFHA commits to delivering more connections and opportunities to build its Members’ Cultural Intelligence to effectively engage multicultural employees, customers, and communities.

Contact Information: Email: info@mfha.net     / Telephone: 401.461.6342

Website: mfha.net

National Awards

Award. Motivate. Promote. Recognize.

We are a promotional product distributor and proud member of the Advertising Specialty Institute. Promotional products, also known as ad specialties, make up a nearly $22 billion dollar industry and are used by virtually every business in America. Why? Items like mugs, pens and t-shirts are memorable and provide a better cost per impression for advertisers than almost every major marketing effort like TV, magazines, and the Internet. We can supply your company with every possible promotional product from over 3000 suppliers. With so many ad specialties available there is a huge opportunity for professionals like you to boost ROI and leave a lasting impression with your customers. Our mission is to help you create long-lasting relationships with your clients through the power of promotional products.

National Awards

Opus Training

Opus is the first mobile learning platform designed for "deskless" employees. Creating content is hard. Distributing it to restaurant teams is hard. Opus combines fast course authoring, mobile-first interactive learning, curated resource access, and messaging into a next generation tool that meets your people where they are. Opus is built by restaurant people for restaurant people. Hear from our customers: Customer Testimonials

Contact Information: Rachael Nemeth Email: rachael@opus.so 

Website: opus.so/lp/chart

People Performance Strategies

Engage your workforce. What we do: Build sustainable profits through a fully engaged workforce.

Contact Information: Joleen Goronkin Email: joleen@ppstrat.com/ Telephone: (612)-963-5057  Curt Archambault Email: curt@ppstrat.com Telephone: (253)-740-0134

Website: ppstrat.com

PlayerLync

PlayerLync is a mobile workforce enablement platform that helps companies like Starbucks, Chipotle, and Southern Company Gas to ensure that every frontline employee has the personalized and timely information they need to do their job, delivered automatically through their mobile device.From rolling out time sensitive information, compliance testing, operational checklists and how to videos, our solution provides 100% guaranteed instant access to personalized content for every frontline worker at their point of need.

For more information email Brad Stutzman.

Restaurant Playbooks

We are a team of passionate and seasoned Restaurant Operations and Learning & Development professionals with extensive experience developing and implementing eLearning solutions that deliver measurable business results.  Prior to starting Restaurant Playbooks, Bob Duprey spent 20 years developing and delivering eLearning solutions in over 150 Fortune 500 companies, including 6 of the top 10 QSRs.  Our mission is to help restaurant training professionals implement the same high impact eLearning strategy and programs used by industry leading organizations, at a fraction of the time and costs.

For more information email Bob Duprey.  720-515-9020

Website: Restaurant Playbooks

Schoox

Schoox offers an intuitive, social and mobile interface that learners love. Our platform is perfect for hard-to-engage workers of any age, including Millennials. We believe training should be about results and we challenge the Learning Management System (LMS) status quo. While common LMSs have been built to manage the learning process in Schoox we put the employee at the center and help them learn and lead business growth.

Contact Information: Matthew Brown   Email matthew@schoox.com /Telephone: 972-603-8074

Website: schoox.com

National Restaurant Association ServSafe 2

Food Safety, Risk Management, and Cultural Change

ServSafe is the leader in food safety and risk mitigation with flexible solutions for restaurant managers, food handlers, alcohol servers and anyone who works with food.

ServSafe Workplace provides training to create a positive, safe work environment for everyone, with courses covering sexual harassment and unconscious bias.

Whether you’re looking to improve food safety, manage risk, change your organization’s culture, or help your staff advance their careers, we have flexible solutions for you.

Contact: Guy Weaver  -  Telephone: 214-926-8563

Website: servsafe.com

National Restaurant Association ServSuccess

Career Advancement

Most successful people start out in the restaurant industry. It’s time they stayed. This industry gives its people the tools to go and take on the world. But what if they didn’t go? When you give people the career path to train and grow, they’ll want to stick around to help your restaurant business grow too. With the flexibility of online delivery and the brevity of “bite-sized” segments, ServSuccess learning is designed for professionals who know late nights and long workweeks all too well. Whether you’re looking to improve food safety, manage risk, change your organization’s culture, or help your staff advance their careers, we have flexible solutions for you. Visit www.servsuccess.com

Contact: Guy Weaver  -  Telephone: 214-926-8563

Website: servsuccess.com

Wisetail

Wisetail is a global leader in innovative and intuitive digital learning platforms used by industry-leading organizations to engage and train their workforces. Wisetail’s award-winning platform delivers training and cultural content across all locations and levels, from the C-suite to frontline workers. The fully configurable platform improves communication and consistency, allowing culture to scale alongside operations.

Contact: Kat DeNike Email: kat.denike@wisetail.com

Website: wisetail.com

Smartcat

Smartcat is the leading Language Delivery Platform for enterprises. It offers AI translation, realtime human editing, a marketplace of over 500,000 linguists, and an integrated platform for project management and payment. Learning & development teams around the globe rely on Smartcat for instant translation of XLIFF files, videos, presentations, handouts and more. Smartcat integrates directly with leading course development and LMS systems, reducing the cost of translation by over 70% and significantly streamlining the process for everyone involved.

Email Colman Murphy for more information.

Learn More at Smartcat

Xyleme

 Xyleme powers the digital transformation of complex content authoring, management, and syndication, enabling the delivery of personalized digital experiences to stakeholders around the world with previously impossible speed and scalability. The company’s proven systems manage the entire content lifecycle process, improve productivity, enable sales and growth initiatives, ensure compliance, and drive optimization to employees and stakeholders across the extended enterprise. Founded in 2004, Xyleme’s Create and Syndicate solutions have won numerous industry awards and are used by the world’s leading Fortune 500 brands across every major industry vertical including: 3M, Cisco, Christus Health, Dunkin Brands, T-Mobile, and VMWare. 

Email Sam Holz for more information.  720-982-3411

Website: Xyleme