White Lodging's Magnificent Mile Restaurant Garners Prestigious Award
MERRILLVILLE, Ind., Nov. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Viand, a restaurant managed by White Lodging garnered a prestigious W3 Silver Award for the bistro's innovative and interactive website. Inside the Courtyard by Marriott Magnificent Mile, which is managed by White Lodging, Viand is located just one block off Michigan Avenue in the popular Streeterville neighborhood in Chicago.
Hospitality eBusiness Strategies (HeBS), a full-service hotel and restaurant internet-marketing firm developed the website for Viand. On the website, HeBS captures the restaurant's casually elegant ambiance and offers visuals of many of Executive Chef Steve Chiappetti's innovative creations.
"This is a great accomplishment for us, and we truly feel our guests appreciate our site," Chiappetti said. "My feeling is that a good website tells information about the restaurant, but a great website lets you experience the restaurant."
Sanctioned and judged by the invitation-only body of the International Academy of Visual Arts, the W³ Award is given only to work deemed outstanding. "We are excited to have won this award for Viand in the restaurant category," said Chief eBusiness Strategist at HeBS Max Starkov. He went on to share that HeBS believes a restaurant or hotel website is the main hub for multichannel customer engagement.
Not only did HeBS develop the website for Viand, White Lodging uses their services for hotel website design and marketing, mobile website design, and corporate website design and marketing.
"This is a great honor. HeBS has become a true partner with White Lodging. In addition to creating great looking sites, they are creating ones that produce incremental revenue as well, and I look forward to many more awards in the coming months and years," commented White Lodging's Corporate Director of e-Commerce, Michael Bennett.
White Lodging Services Corporation was established in 1985 and is headquartered in Merrillville, Indiana. White Lodging is a fully integrated hotel ownership, development, and operations company – a recognized leader that has defined and cultivated the ability to achieve consistent, sustainable growth among mid- to large-scale hotels across the country. Their current portfolio consists of over 151 hotels in eighteen states and encompasses representation of the following leading brands: Marriott International, Inc., Hilton Worldwide, Hyatt Global, Starwood Hotels and Resorts, InterContinental Hotel Group, and Carlson Hotels Worldwide.
For more information about White Lodging, please visit www.whitelodging.com or call 219-472-2900.
SOURCE White Lodging Services Corporation
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