RESTAURANT INDUSTRY NEWS
Financial troubles for some of the best restaurants in Australia
Financial troubles for some of the best restaurants in Australia. How many other restaurants are struggling. John Leathlean in the Weekend Australian on September 11, wrote about financial troubles for two top Australian chef/restaurateurs. Tony Bilson has had two of...
Chef gets paid $250 per hour to use Twitter + Facebook
Let me start right out and say that I don`t know any chef earning $250 per hour to use Twitter and Facebook, but that isn`t to say that it can`t be done, and there may be people earning more. First off, I`ll break down the figures so you can see how I can up with this...
Gordon Ramsay’s Maze Restaurant in Melbourne goes into administration
It was sad to see that Gordon Ramsay’s Maze and Maze Grill go into liquidation this week. It really highlights some of the difficulties in running a restaurant. It doesn’t look like Gordon Ramsay had much to do with the day to day running of Maze, but with his name as...
Why Yellow Pages ads just don’t work anymore for Restaurants
I was reading about the Sensis full year profit report for 2011 and one figure really stands out, and that is a fall of 15.8% in the print directory business. Why would profit drop by such a large number? That is nearly 1 in 6 customers cancelling their Yellow Pages...
My recipe for Cheese on Toast is your recipe for disaster!
Sun Tzu spoke about the importance of knowing your enemy, so who do you think your enemy is? When I speak to most restaurant and take away owners they will list a couple of other restaurants and take aways in the area, but they neglect the most dangerous competitor of...
Can’t get a table at the restaurant at the end of the world
Botaira Island, Fiji, a great restaurant for lunch, just make sure you book ahead! Well it may not be the end of the Earth, but the restaurant at Botaira resort is certainly a long way from civilisation. We arrived their via a small boat that transferred us from the...