Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Attention All Cafe & Restaurant Owners

Hi

I just wanted to let you know about a fantastic event that is taking place soon for anyone who owns a restaurant, cafe or food service business and wants to boost their income and profits – and who wouldn’t want that.

My good friend Howard Tinker of Australian Restaurant Marketing Systems has been helping restaurant and cafe owners to boost their incomes for many years and has had some great successes with many of his members up 30% even during the recession! One even did an 83% increase in business over the Father’s Day weekend using some of his strategies.

Howard has just told me that he is running a Business Success Conference in a few weeks where he is going to show restaurant and cafe owners exactly what to do to boost their incomes. He has assembled a team of restaurant business experts who will join him in training you to boost your income too.

I know this guy, he is the real deal, he works with restaurant owners across Australia and in New Zealand. This is going to be so good there are some Kiwi’s already coming over to attend. Places are limited (it’s not a massive venue he is using) but you can book in right now.

So if you are interested in learning what these other owners are doing click the link below to read more about it. http://www.restaurantprofitsplus.net/boot_camp/

Best regards,

Neil Willis
Sydney Commercial Kitchens

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Fine numbers for Fine Food

Find Food Australia has record pre-registrations for the Melbourne trade event at Melbourne Exhibition Centre, from Monday September 22nd until Thursday 25th.

Established as the largest food and hospitality industry event staged in Australia, Fine Food has more than 1,000 exhibitors including 200 from 31 countries showcasing the latest food, alcoholic beverages for trade buyers.

Organisers had processed pre-registrations for more than 20,270 trade visitors a week prior to the event, 995 more than at the same time for the last show in Melbourne, 2006.

Entry to Fine Food is restricted to professional people working in the retail, foodservice, liquor or hospitality industries and people.

The exhibitions will be officially opened by Jacinta Allan, Minister for Regional and Rural Development and Minister for Skills and Workforce Participation in the Victorian Government.

Further information is available on the website http://www.finefood.com.au

The hat’s back on for Jonah’s

THE northern beaches can once again lay claim to having two hatted* restaurants now that Jonah’s at Whale Beach has managed to regain its prized chef’s hat status after a 12 month hiatus from the foodie limelight.

Jonah’s is now in good company, with Pilu at Freshwater retaining its hats for a third year.

Now that the famous Whale Beach landmark has found favour with the Good Food Guide judges, executive chef George Francisco says he is determined to hold onto the oft-elusive prize.

“Losing the hat was a major surprise and a huge shake-up for the restaurant,” he said.

Francisco said his new strategy to upgrade his restaurant’s offering included focusing on consistency.

“I took everything off the menu bar the pannacotta and pomegranate dessert, and started from square one.

“We have some great young chefs here and I think that freshened things up a bit.”
*The 2009 Good Food Guide awards were announced on Monday night. Restaurants are reviewed anonymously and given a chef’s hat rating, with three being regarded as world class.




05 Sep 08 @ 06:38pm