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Bad restaurants cause trauma: research

Poor food and rude waiters can create a restaurant experience that is literally traumatic, scientists have discovered. A US study of almost a million...

Coca-Cola Amatil profit slumps 25% as soft drink sales drop

Coca-Cola Amatil is cutting bottled water prices, launching new soft drink products and spending more on marketing to try to reverse a slide in volumes...

IHG Partners with Pernod Ricard to Celebrate 150 years of Cocktail Mixology

Hotel bars will offer exciting cocktail and food pairing under new BAR150 programme IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) has partnered with Pernod Ricard...

Tabletop Tablet Service -- Coming To A Restaurant Near You

If you’ve eaten at a casual dining restaurant lately, you’ve likely already seen them—tablet computers that allow diners to order their own food...

How to complain at a restaurant

Many years ago I was travelling through Dubrovnik, Croatia, and stopped at a restaurant for lunch on a fine, sunny day. I opened the first page of the...

CEOs and top chefs unite to cook meals for charity

Forty of Australia’s top chefs with a combined 38 Chefs’ Hats awarded to their restaurants, will unite with more than 100 business leaders on Monday,...

Paleo: Pete Evans and the truth about the diet

The paleo lifestyle is often ridiculed by many, yet few people really understand it. If you look at lists of the atrocities of 2014, you will see three...

Gloria Jean’s outlet fined for paying workers $8 an hour

A GLORIA Jean’s outlet has been fined $110,000 for paying staff as little as $8 an hour to make customers’ coffees. A Fair Work Ombudsman investigation...

Competitive Strategy for the Hospitality Industry

Developing a business strategy is admirable but executing the strategy is the key:  Based on this, I thought I would try to simplify the essence of strategy...

Restaurateurs rally for young workers

Dozens of young bar workers have been left high and dry after an inner-city restaurant collapsed, prompting one of Perth's best-known restaurateurs to...