The latest data released this week from the National Visitor Survey (NVS) has shown an increased overnight spend on restaurant and takeaway meals by domestic tourists, both in terms of the dollar amount and as a proportion of overall expenditure. […]
Hospitality businesses are tapping into Aussies’ increasingly food-conscious mindset through new concepts that focus on health and wellness, sustainability and niche offerings, according to research by hospitality point of sale provider Impos. The survey of 652 hospitality business owners, managers […]
Restaurant & Catering Australia (R&CA) has welcomed Adelaide City Council’s amendments to a proposal which would have required all outdoor dining businesses to operate using non-fixed furniture. Under the 2014 Outdoor Dining Guidelines, businesses in the City of Adelaide with […]
The Women In Foodservice Awards are looking to celebrate the successful women of the foodservice sector. They are looking for those women working in foodservice who, through their dedication, drive, and excellence, are doing their bit to shape and grow […]
The co-owner of Adelaide’s Plenty Catering likes his events to be strategically planned, whether it’s breakfast for 30 or a ball for 6,000. By Frank Leggett “While working as a senior weather forecaster for the Bureau of Meteorology in Perth […]
Multi-award-winning restaurant, Eschalot, sits pretty as a picture in NSW’s Southern Highlands. Owner/chef Richard Kemp is as passionate about his cuisine as he is about maintaining a balanced lifestyle. By Frank Leggett “My first job was working as an apprentice […]
A journey stretching from Italy to Australia has seen Flavio Carnevale use his butcher and deli background to open Popolo in Sydney’s Rushcutters Bay. By Kerryn Ramsey “I grew up with my family running a butcher shop in Rapone near […]
Greg Anderson says his decision to move out of the kitchen was one of the best he ever made. It allowed him to focus on the management side of things and turn his restaurant Sails on Lavender Bay, on Sydney’s […]
Converting an underused cocktail bar into a private dining room made perfect sense to chef/co-owner Mark Jensen, even when he had to roll up his sleeves and do the job himself. By Kerryn Ramsey When Sydney’s Red Lantern team decided […]
Sydney designer Jason Mowen embraced a heritage building’s enormous dimensions, turning it into a grand, Italian-inspired eating experience. By Kerryn Ramsey Originally a tyre factory, the building in Sydney’s Rushcutters Bay is now Bar Machiavelli, Sydney’s cathedral to pasta. The […]
A cavernous power station has found new life as Higher Ground, a heritage-listed restaurant/café of monumental proportions. By Kerryn Ramsey The old power station on Little Bourke Street in Melbourne’s CBD had already undergone a transformation before Mark Simpson of […]
A former chippie made use of his skills when refurbishing a 19th-century grain store in the recently gentrified suburb of Newcastle East, NSW. By Kerryn Ramsey Timing was critical when Corey Crooks (with his wife Kristy) leased a former grain-and-keg […]
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Food blogger Duy Huynh—known to his 30,000 Instagram followers as Duy Dash—has some pro tips for restaurateurs marketing themselves on social media. By Petra Starke In 2015, Duy Huynh was just another guy selling vacuum cleaners at Harvey Norman, wondering […]
It’s a concept other hospitality industries seem to have mastered but, as Susanna Nelson writes, dynamic pricing is still relatively new to the restaurant business. Many restaurateurs know all too well the contrast between a buzzing weekend crowd and the […]
So-called ‘Hallmark’ holidays are excellent opportunities to market your restaurant—just not for the reasons you might think, writes Mitchell Oakley Smith. While Valentine’s Day has become caught in the net of commercialism in recent decades, with marketers finding countless ways to exploit […]
The Chinese comprise the fastest growing inbound tourist segment in Australia. And they’re hungry for fine food, reports Kathy Graham. Dan Hong, executive chef at Mr Wong, the popular Merivale restaurant in Sydney known for its modern Cantonese menu, doesn’t […]
