Commercial Kitchen Equipment Feature Articles for Australian Hospitality Industry

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Kitchen hand duties & responsibilities 2/19/2021

Working in the hospitality industry can be an enriching experience.

Why does commercial equipment last decades? 2/19/2021

There are many established restaurant and cafe kitchens which have equipment that’s at least 20 years old.

Domestic tourists continue to spend big on restaurant meals 10/5/2018

Data from Tourism Research Australia’s National Visitor Survey (NVS) has shown an 11 per cent increase in domestic tourists’ expenditure on restaurant and takeaway meals for the year ...

Business “permanent casual” proposal could destroy permanent work 9/25/2018

The business lobby’s proposal for changes to workplace laws to create a new category of “permanent casuals” would remove rights for millions of working people and lead to the rapid ...

Too many cooks in the kitchen: the fast-growing food-delivery sector 9/13/2018

Online food-delivery services have been a major innovation in the $20 billion Fast Food and Takeaway Food Services industry.

Turnbull’s insecure work crisis continues 6/15/2018

The crisis of insecure continues to deepen under the Turnbull Government with ABS statistics out today showing that underemployment continues to rise.

Helping Australia's food industry go digital 6/14/2018

An industry-led Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) launched on June 13 is helping Australia’s farmers, food producers and food industry businesses embrace digital technologies to ...

Hotspots to be audited as spotlight put on workplace basics 4/10/2018

The Fair Work Ombudsman has begun auditing 1000 businesses across Australia, as part of a new campaign to ensure employers have the basics right in their workplaces.

Biggest worker survey shows Australians want fair pay, secure jobs 3/15/2018

The largest survey of workers ever undertaken by the Australian union movement, released on March 2, shows that working Australians are overwhelmingly concerned about the difficulty ...

Café manager penalised $27,000 for exploiting overseas workers 1/19/2018

The former manager of an Oliver Brown chocolate café outlet on the Gold Coast who was ‘seeing what he could get away with’ when he exploited overseas workers has been penalised ...

Research shows women's pay lags behind men's in tourism & hospitality 12/15/2017

Swinburne research has shown that women are earning considerably less than men in the tourism and hospitality sectors.

Aussies clueless about safe cooking temperatures 11/17/2017

Despite celebrity cooking shows being all the rage, the Food Safety Information Council released a national survey recently for Australian Food Safety Week (11-18 Nov 2017).

A broken system: penalty rate judgment a low blow for workers 10/13/2017

The Federal Court ruling has recently refused to overturn the harsh penalty rate cuts decision handed down by the Fair Work Commission in February, 2017.

SA food truck reform a blow to the state's cafés & restaurants 8/11/2017

Restaurant & Catering Australia (R&CA) has expressed its disappointment with the South Australian Government's reforms to the state’s food truck industry allowing an unrestricted ...

Aussie Millennials visit restaurants more than any other generation 7/14/2017

Millennials in Australia visit foodservice establishments more than any other generation, and Gen Z is following in their footsteps.

Sydney restaurant operators back in Court due to alleged underpayments 6/9/2017

The operators of an inner Sydney restaurant who were penalised almost $300,000 last year for exploiting overseas workers are again facing legal action, accused of further underpayments. ...

Accommodation industry welcomes revamp of 457 temporary visa 5/12/2017

Australia’s peak accommodation body, Tourism Accommodation Australia (TAA), welcomed the Prime Minister’s announcement of a revamp of the 457 temporary skilled labour visa system.

New apprentice figures show increase in non-trade occupations 5/12/2017

Figures released recently, by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), show the number of people starting an apprenticeship or traineeship is up 2.9% for the ...

How to create a boutique hotel that works 2/10/2017

There's something quite romantic about the notion of boutique hotels; something softer and more intimate than any image conjured up by the mega chain hotels.

Tas restaurant to dish-up $20,000 back-pay to underpaid staff 1/13/2017

The Fair Work Ombudsman is issuing businesses a warning about the dangers of paying flat rates after a restaurant on Tasmania’s east coast underpaid five employees more than $20,000. ...

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