Tag: Restaurant

Can a robot be your restaurant’s best employee? For many Australian restaurateurs, the answer is already yes.

The hospitality industry’s battle: What these family-owned businesses want you to know

Andrew Fraser examines the factors set to shape Australia’s hospitality sector in 2024.

Australian restaurants are reinventing themselves by bottling up sauces, selling cooking classes, or creating merch brands as a way to bring in revenue from multiple sources.

The grant program will see six small independent restaurants in Sydney receive $21,000.

New Australian startup, me&u, which simplifies mobile ordering & payments for cafes, restaurants and bars, has recently announced an AUD$8 million Series B funding round.  Founder of me&u Stevan Premutico, who previously founded restaurant booking platform Dimmi, said that he is now ready to deliver me&u’s ambition “of improving hospitality experiences, removing the friction of […]

Leading food company Deliveroo has announced a partnership with Melbourne-based Hospitality and Retail API Platform Doshii to streamline processing orders for restaurant partners. Restaurants who partner with Deliveroo will be able to utilise the Doshii API (Application Programing Interface) to connect customer ordering direct to their in-store point-of-sale (POS), eliminating the need for restaurants to manually […]

At the end of this month, Stevan Premutico will step away from Dimmi, the online restaurant booking platform he founded in early 2009.  Under his leadership, Dimmi has withstood “well-funded” international competitors and wooed TripAdvisor, which acquired it for a reported $25m two years ago. In conversation with Dynamic Business, the departing CEO reflected on […]

Sunday penalty rate reductions for employees covered by the Hospitality, Fast Food, Retail, Pharmacy and Restaurant Awards will be phased in over three to four years from 1 July. The Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission issued a decision on 23 February 2017 to reduce Sunday and public holiday penalty rates in the Hospitality, […]

A personal tragedy led prominent hospitality figure, Ramzey Choker, to reimagine what was possible in his industry. The result? The Grounds of Alexandria – an immersive, acre-sized venue in Sydney’s Inner West that continues to defy categorisation and attract crowds nearly five years on. From a very young age, Choker worked in his father’s Alexandria-based […]