Sue Fea reports on a new foodservice course that teaches staff how to cope with customers with special dietary needs.

Thirst editor Don Kavanagh supports Wellington City Council’s move to impose blanket liquor bans across the city as a sad but necessary move. Redolent though it may be of the so-called Nanny State something has to be done to stamp out the kind of behaviour driving alcohol related harm and doing damage to the hospitality trade generally. Read more...

Pay up or miss out... please!

This time we really mean it. Honest!

If you want to see any trade magazine publisher cry just raise the subject of “paid subscriptions”.
What will start the tears flowing is the welling up of sheer frustration at the years of failed strategies to get New Zealand companies to pay for quality information specific to their chosen field. It is a frustration shared by publishers right across the specialist publishing spectrum. Read more....