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Training & Events

Special Free Business Seminars at the Brisbane Fine Food Show: March 11-13

If you can make time to visit Fine Food Queensland make sure you also make time to join this year’s exciting FREE seminar program. Valuable information and education sessions for chefs, managers, business owners and F&B staff of cafes, restaurants, caterers, hotels and clubs. 12 Seminars over 3 days – topics include: Kitchen Cost Control, Menu [...]

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An easy way to make your Staff Training into a Marketing Plus

At Cafe Troppo, we had a spare room that was useful for storage (tidy!), interviewing, meetings and staff training. Training was a constant activity, based on the 20-minute training principle – a little and often, across all departments. The room was also passed by customers going to the bathrooms, and one day I put a [...]

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The Living Room Restaurant – featured at the Starting a Cafe or Restaurant Workshop in Melbourne on March 12

It’s Melbourne Food & Wine Festival time, and the whole city goes mad with food events, special dinners, wine tasting and every type of educational and tasting session. Alan Markham of The Living Room Restaurant in Malvern will be on the guest panel at the Starting a Cafe or Restaurant Workshop at Carlton on March [...]

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How to use the Royal Wedding Celebrations on 29 April for Restaurant & Bar Marketing

Whether you’re a Brit, Aussie, American, republican or royalist, you can expect most of the world to stop on April 29th at 11am UK time for the Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. That’s 6am in New York, 3am in Los Angeles and 10pm in Sydney (not exactly designed for TV ratings). It’s likely [...]

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Weddings & Events Management Summit in Sydney – May 17-18 2011

Last year’s Event Management Summit was a hit, and this year we’ve pulled out even more stops for the Weddings & Events Management Summit in Sydney on May 17-18 at Bankstown Sports Club. This club is a great venue with world-class facilities – don’t miss the early-morning back-of-house tour, plus a presentation by their event [...]

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The inside story on Melbourne’s stylish EARL Canteen

We’re honoured to have Jackie Middleton, one of the partners at Melbourne’s CBD favourite EARL Canteen as a guest for the upcoming Starting a Cafe or Restaurant Workshop in Melbourne (12 March 2011). Jackie is a self-confessed ‘food nerd’ and has a career that includes waitress, manager, writer, stylist and self-taught cook. Her long history [...]

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At the MasterChef Live event – the public can’t get enough of demos, classes and new products

Here’s a selection of photos from Sydney’s recent MasterChef Live event. It was bursting with enthusiasm from an audience of all ages. Expect to see this event spread, and compete with the Good Food & Wine Show. The smart stall-holders had quirky, interactive, touch-and-taste offers and were using it to build their brand rather than [...]

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