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The A La Carte Hotel Evaluation

Katie Ho on December 30, 2010

While Coyle’s mystery shopping services extend to providing secret shopper reports for entire hotels, the company has often received requests to evaluate specific outlets at certain hotels, rather than the Read More

Reinventing Your Restaurant For Success

Katie Ho on December 1, 2010

Sometimes, something as simple as a guest comment can propel a restaurateur to the next level.  Restaurant consultants often agree that listening to guests is one of the key ways to keep your Read More

What Carnival Did Right

Katie Ho on November 23, 2010

By now, everyone has heard about the troubles aboard the Carnival Splendor, which had an onboard fire and was disabled for three days at sea during a voyage this month.  Read More

A Demographic Fit

Katie Ho on November 19, 2010

One of Coyle’s resort clients specifically requested that Coyle send a family for one of their resort mystery shopping evaluations.  Why?  Because their resort clientele is almost exclusively families at this time of Read More

What’s For Breakfast?

Katie Ho on November 12, 2010

A Coyle Hospitality Group hotel client was reviewing its comment cards to specifically assess guest satisfaction related to the four food and beverage questions asked of hotel guests.  Using this comment card Read More

How Do We Stack Up to Competitors?

Katie Ho on November 5, 2010

At the end of the quarter, one of our upscale restaurant clients asked how they were doing in comparison to their competitive set.  As part of its hospitality consulting services, Coyle provides restaurant reports that show up-to-date Read More

Setting Standards at the Start

Katie Ho on October 29, 2010

Although Coyle Hospitality’s reports often measure the guest experience, Coyle also plays a significant role in helping operators develop the standards necessary to improve that guest experience.  For most businesses - be they restaurants, hotels, Read More

The Hotel Action Plan

Katie Ho on October 22, 2010

After reading a recent detailed Coyle hotel report, a client asked, “How can we improve?” After all, Coyle’s program is not just about measuring and reporting on crucial aspects of the guest Read More

Should Hotels Track, and Blacklist, Bad Guests?

Katie Ho on October 21, 2010

Hoteliers may be able to detect and deflect “problem” guests before they can even step foot in the lobby, thanks to a new database subscription system in the UK called Guestscan, which Read More

Evaluating Outsourced Hotel Departments

Katie Ho on October 15, 2010

In the hospitality world, it is common for the guest experience to fall under the responsibility of multiple management companies, such as a hotel with a restaurant, spa or reservations Read More

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