Press Releases
The Real Cost of the World Cup: Missed Margin, Not Missed Footfall
60% of hospitality operators take more than a week to get a price change live across their estate. That single figure explains more about what this World Cup will cost the industry, in missed margin, not missed footfall, than almost anything else. The 2026 tournament should be a standout trading
Pricing Agility in Hospitality: Highlights from Our Live Webinar
On 21st April 2025, Openr hosted a live LinkedIn webinar on unlocking pricing agility in hospitality. In it, Joel Robinson (Founder) and Nick Liddle (Chief Customer Officer) walked a live audience of operators through a practical framework for understanding where their business sits today on the pricing maturity curve, and
AI in hospitality: less about hype, more about execution
There’s been no shortage of conversation about AI in hospitality over the past 18 months. New tools, new promises, and a growing sense that something significant is changing. But if you speak to most operators, the reality feels more grounded. Margins are tight, teams are stretched, and systems don’t always
The Hidden Cost of Slow Pricing in Hospitality with Joel Robinson
Hospitality pricing is becoming more complex, but the biggest challenge for most operators isn’t strategy. It’s execution. In this video, Joel Robinson explores why the gap between making a pricing decision and getting that change live across sites and channels is one of the most overlooked risks to margin. When
Openr’s Research on Pricing Execution with Industry Experts
When Costs Move Faster Than Prices: Why Pricing Execution Is Now the Risk Pricing decisions are happening, pricing execution is not. The research highlights a widening gap between pricing decisions and deployment. More than 60% of operators take one to two weeks or longer to deploy a price change across
Why hospitality struggles to execute pricing: Insights from the RMI Panel January 2026
Pricing Optimisation: Fixing the Execution Gap Guests on the panel: Panel overview: Hospitality is losing revenue not because pricing strategies are wrong, but because execution is slow and manual. The following overview is from a panel session that explores how operators can unlock immediate profit by automating proven tactics like event