Nightfood Announces Successful Hotel Test, Engages iDEAL Hospitality to Scale High-Margin Hotel Vertical
September 08, 2021 at 08:00 am EDT
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Nightfood Holdings, Inc. announced the completion of a retail pilot test in the lobby shops of a leading international hotel chain. The test, first announced in March 2021, has been confirmed a success. As a result, the testing chain has confirmed the decision to fully launch Nightfood into their lobby shop freezers chain-wide with an expected start date in the fourth quarter of 2021 or the first quarter of 2022. To fully capitalize on the high-margin hotel opportunity, Nightfood has engaged iDEAL Hospitality Partners Group. Led by hospitality industry veteran Jill Dean Rigsbee, iDEAL focuses on introducing and scaling innovative hospitality-related products within the hotel/hospitality market. Rigsbee is the former long-time Director of Business Development for Avendra, North America’s leading hospitality procurement service provider. iDEAL has been engaged to secure distribution partnerships with additional global hotel brands, oversee hospitality-related business development initiatives, and provide sales and support during the national Nightfood hotel rollout. iDEAL is presently engaged in Nightfood sales discussions with several major hotel chains as well as the largest Group Purchasing Organizations in hospitality, representing thousands of additional hotel properties.
Nightfood Holdings, Inc. is a holding company focused on identifying and exploiting market trends within the hospitality, food services, and consumer goods sectors. The Company's operations are conducted by its two subsidiaries: Nightfood, Inc. (Nightfood) and Future Hospitality Ventures Holdings, Inc. (Future Hospitality). Nightfood is a nighttime snack company, which is engaged in the business of manufacturing, marketing and distributing snacks specially formulated and promoted for evening consumption. The Nightfood brand includes sleep-friendly versions of the nighttime snack formats. In addition to ice cream pints, its products include cookies, chips, ice cream sandwiches, candy, and nutrition bars. It is focused on offering two flavors in ice cream, Midnight Chocolate and Cookies n' Dreams. Future Hospitality is a provider of robotics and automation solutions to the hospitality and food service industries. It provides artificial intelligence (AI) enabled robotic solutions.