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Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts Earns Great Place To Work-Certified™ Status for Sixth Consecutive Year

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SCHAUMBURG, Ill., May 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — For the sixth year in a row, Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts (Escoffier), the largest culinary school brand in the U.S.* announced today it was certified as a great workplace by independent analysts at the Great Place To Work® research firm.

Great Place To Work Certification™ is recognized worldwide as the leading benchmark for identifying outstanding employee experiences and is based entirely on employee feedback.

The independent research and consulting firm and authority on workplace culture has surveyed more than 100 million employees globally since 1992. Surveys assess employee experiences using over 60 statements and open-ended questions.

Escoffier’s employee survey revealed that 90% of employees feel welcome when they join the company, 87% feel they make a difference, and 84% report being given the tools and resources to do their jobs. These indicators reflect the school’s commitment to creating a workplace culture rooted in trust and opportunity.

Survey results revealed Escoffier’s employee experience is marked by collaboration, responsibility, and growth. The company fosters a strong sense of community and employee engagement, which are key to supporting the school’s mission to provide quality culinary education.

“Earning this recognition six years in a row demonstrates the commitment of our team and our focus on maintaining a workplace culture where employees feel valued, supported, and empowered,” said Jack Larson, Escoffier’s CEO. “The passion and dedication of our employees are the foundation of Escoffier’s success, and we are proud to celebrate this milestone with them.”

“Great Place To Work Certification is a highly coveted achievement that requires consistent and intentional dedication to the overall employee experience,” says Sarah Lewis-Kulin, the Vice President of Global Recognition at Great Place To Work. She emphasizes that Certification is the sole official recognition earned by the real-time feedback of employees regarding their company culture. “By successfully earning this recognition, it is evident that Escoffier stands out as one of the top companies to work for, providing a great workplace environment for its employees.”

Escoffier’s commitment to its employees is reflected in the school’s offerings and its continued recognition as one of the best places to work in the education sector. With campuses in Austin, Texas, and Boulder, Colorado, and a support center in Schaumburg, Illinois, Escoffier employs more than 565 educators, culinary professionals, chef instructors and support staff from across the United States. The school is consistently recognized as a top culinary institution, offering programs on campus and online.

For more information about Escoffier’s Great Place to Work Certification™, visit.

About Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts
 Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts is the largest culinary school brand in the U.S.* (based on comparable student population data currently reported in IPEDS). Escoffier’s programs blend a classic and contemporary approach to culinary education, emphasizing sustainability and business skills. Escoffier is ranked No. 1 and 2 on Niche’s 2025 Best Colleges for Culinary Arts list. Both the Boulder and Austin campuses are Great Place to Work-Certified™ institutions and have been designated as Military Friendly® Schools.

About Great Place to Work Certification™
 Great Place To Work® Certification™ is the most definitive “employer-of-choice” recognition that companies aspire to achieve. It is the only recognition based entirely on what employees report about their workplace experience – specifically, how consistently they experience a high-trust workplace. Great Place to Work Certification is recognized worldwide by employees and employers alike and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience. Every year, more than 10,000 companies across 60 countries apply for Great Place To Work Certification™.

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accesso® Intelligence Introduces Agentic AI for Automated Workflows in Visitor Attractions

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New capabilities help teams automate analysis, forecasting, reporting and work across their operations

LONDON, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — accesso Technology Group (AIM: ACSO), a leading global technology provider for the leisure, entertainment and cultural markets, today introduced new capabilities that enable attraction operators to turn conversations with accesso Intelligence into recurring automated workflows. Users can now ask the platform to monitor performance, conduct research, detect and investigate changes, develop forecasts, produce reports and share findings with designated stakeholders.

Visitor attractions are complex organisations that operate multiple businesses under one roof, with data spread across ticketing, memberships, food and beverage, retail, parking, operations and other systems. accesso Intelligence, a decision intelligence platform purpose-built for visitor attractions, combines this valuable information together with relevant operational and external context. The result is a fully assembled platform that gives teams a more complete view of their business without requiring them to juggle multiple data and AI tools that don’t integrate.

Through conversation, teams can define the analytical work required, select the appropriate tools and connected data, interpret the results and put the resulting workflow to work across the operation.

“What began as a conversation with your operation is becoming a new way of working within it,” said Angie Judge, Chief Data and Intelligence Officer at accesso. “This is more than just a new way to analyse data. Teams can now delegate ongoing analytical work to accesso Intelligence, allowing people to focus their time on the decisions, creativity and accountability that require human judgement.”

The expansion introduces three new connected capabilities:

Agentic skills: accesso Intelligence can select and use specialised capabilities to perform multi-step analytical work, such as monitoring performance, detecting and evaluating changes and communicating issues that require attention.
 Agentic automations: Work created and refined through conversation can be scheduled or triggered repeatedly and conditionally. This can include conducting analyses, updating information and distributing results.
 Agentic reporting and forecasting: Teams can build and operationalise custom reports. The platform can determine the best predictive approach for each task, combining relevant operational context and external signals. Reports can adapt to what the data shows, rather than saying the same thing every day.

Traditional automation follows predefined steps. Agentic automation begins with an objective. accesso Intelligence determines the work required, selects the appropriate tools and connected data, interprets the results and delivers the requested outcome.

For example, an operator could ask accesso Intelligence to compare weekly visitation and revenue against plan, investigate any meaningful variance and consider relevant operational and external factors. The platform could then assess whether reforecasting is required.

From that conversation, the platform can create a repeatable workflow that monitors results, examines important changes and delivers recommendations and reasoning to the people who need them.

“The next stage of AI in attractions is not simply helping people find an answer,” Judge said. “It is helping teams continuously monitor their business, recognise when conditions change and bring the right recommendation to the right person at the right time.” accesso Intelligence brings data integration, industry-specific semantic modelling, machine learning, visualisation, reporting, conversational insight and workflow automation together in one platform.

The capabilities are available now within accesso Intelligence.

Attendees at IAAPA Expo Europe can learn more about accesso Intelligence and the broader accesso ecosystem at Booth S2123, 22–24 September at ExCeL London. Booth visitors can also request a complimentary personalised visitor-experience report identifying where decision intelligence could help reveal opportunities within their venue.

About accesso Intelligence

accesso Intelligence connects data across the systems that run an attraction and applies AI built on a decade of visitor attractions-specific expertise. The result is a decision intelligence platform that helps teams make faster, smarter and more confident decisions without having to build the underlying infrastructure themselves.

About accesso Technology Group plc

The accesso ecosystem of solutions redefines the guest experience. accesso offers the agility of connected ticketing and eCommerce, virtual queuing, restaurant and retail point of sale, distribution, mobile apps and decision intelligence and analytics solutions for more than 1,100 venues globally. Its technology helps operators streamline operations, increase revenue and improve the guest journey. accesso delivers a high volume of product enhancements year-round and continuously invests in R&D to help venues and operators adapt to evolving guest needs.

accesso is a public company, listed on AIM: a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. Learn more at accesso.com or follow accesso on X (Twitter), LinkedIn and Facebook.

 

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Perform.AI Launches AI Commerce Operating System

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Parcel Perform becomes Perform.AI for an industry where brands are chosen on how they perform, not how they market.

SINGAPORE and BERLIN and CHICAGO, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Perform.AI today launched the AI Commerce Operating System to do the job end-to-end—from merchants’ being found to the parcel being delivered—on one system, and changed its name from Parcel Perform to match this ambition.

Brands now have to build experiences for both the humans who buy, and for the AI agents that support them. The AI agent focuses on finding the best product, at the best price, with the fastest delivery. A brand now sells to a person and to that person’s AI—which picks only the brands that keep their promises.

The Perform.AI system is built for this reality, and runs the whole e-commerce journey—AI Commerce Visibility, Checkout, Post-Purchase, and Returns—with Logistics doing the daily work collaborating with shipping partners underneath. Behind it all, AI Decision Intelligence fuels every decision. It reads the data, holds a view on what should happen next, and acts on it, optimizing for gross margin.

With this foundation in place, once an e-commerce business is live on Perform.AI, their teams—marketing, logistics operations, customer service—can connect to Perform.AI data through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and get answers about their e-commerce operations inside the AI tool they already work in.

“An AI agent deciding which brand to recommend reads what you promised, and checks what you actually delivered. You can see that record before the agent does, and fix what is in it. This is the new world of AI Commerce, and we are proud to help merchants get ready for it,” said Dr. Arne Jeroschewski, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Perform.AI.

“Loyalty doesn’t move an AI agent. Advertising doesn’t move it either. But consistent performance does. We announced AI Commerce Visibility in October 2025, so e-commerce brands can see how AI recommends the product lines they actually sell, not just their brand name, and what AI says about their delivery and returns.” said Dr. Jeroschewski.

“For ten years, e-commerce software offered the same deal: buy the tool, do the work yourself,” Dr. Jeroschewski said. “Fifteen tabs, fifteen logins, every decision still stitched together by your team. Perform.AI does that work in one system. Your teams just need to focus on the strategic decisions, not on assembling answers.”

Echoing that focus on a better way forward, Dana von der Heide, Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer of Perform.AI, shares: “We started as Parcel Perform ten years ago. Performance was always the point: it was the outcome our customers wanted. Parcel was just the unit of work we began with. The ambitious brands we work with expected more from us, we built it, and their performance became our obsession.”

“The rebranding follows the change that began inside our company. E-commerce software used to move on roadmaps, but Perform.AI revamped how it scopes, develops, and ships software to match the pace AI commerce moves at. This is the new velocity you can expect from us,” said Dr. Jeroschewski. “We are not renaming the company. We are naming what it has become already.”

The Perform.AI system runs on more than 100 billion parcel updates a year for thousands of brands, with 1,100+ carrier integrations across 160+ countries. It reads that data and acts on it: catching a delay before a customer emails to ask, picking the cheapest carrier that is most likely to hit a promised date. This is one system where outcomes matter, because the software should create value, not just the people working with it.

ABOUT Perform.AI

Perform.AI is the AI Commerce Operating System for ambitious brands. In agentic commerce, performing is what gets a brand recommended – so Perform.AI runs the delivery promise, the post-order experience and the return as one interconnected system that acts on what needs fixing, with Logistics carrying the daily work of the delivery promise underneath. Founded in 2016 as Parcel Perform, the company became Perform.AI in September 2026.

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China Eastern Airlines Launches International App 2.0 with Enhanced Digital Travel Services

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SHANGHAI, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — China Eastern Airlines (CEAir) recently launched version 2.0 of its international app, now available on the App Store and Google Play, offering global travelers a smoother and more convenient digital travel experience through comprehensive upgrades to its underlying technology, user experience, and interface design.

Designed around the practical needs of international travelers, the new version incorporates upgrades across key stages of the travel experience, from flight search and booking to seat selection and itinerary management.

The flight search and booking process has been streamlined, making it easier for travelers to search, select, and book their flights.

For long-haul international flights, the upgraded seat selection feature provides a clearer view of cabin layouts, seat pitch, and seat availability, helping travelers make more informed choices.

A redesigned Trip Hub automatically consolidates upcoming and past trips, allowing passengers to keep track of their itineraries more efficiently.

Important flight information, including departure and arrival times, delay notifications, terminals, and boarding gates, is displayed more prominently for quick access.

The airline said it will continue to enhance the user experience across its travel services and introduce more international and locally preferred payment options to further improve digital services for travelers worldwide.

Website: http://www.ceair.com/

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