An Exceptional Salad with an Unusual Coconut Oil Dressing

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An Exceptional Salad with an Unusual Coconut Oil Dressing

For a number of reasons, I'm guessing that few of you have used coconut oil as a major component in a salad dressing before. It's solid and chunky at room temperature. And, if you melt coconut oil, it will return to a solid stated as it cools. Generally speaking, it's just hard to get your head around the idea that it'd be a good foundation for a salad dressing. But, when someone you trust and admire tells you something is a good idea...

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An Exceptional Salad with an Unusual Coconut Oil Dressing

The Role and Value of the Modern-Day Kitchen Hand

The kitchen hand is an unsung hero of the hospitality industry. They can make or break a service, they know the kitchen like the back of their hand and they have eyes and ears everywhere. Sure, turnover is usually quite high and finding motivated and reliable workers can sometimes be tough, but when a restaurant strikes gold, the impact can be enormous...

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The role and value of the modern-day kitchen hand

Here's Why You’re Seeing Purple Food Everywhere

It started with purple sweet potatoes. Then came artichokes, bell peppers, asparagus, kohlrabi, carrots, turnips, daikon, celery, and , of course, cauliflower. All purple. Some over-eager people count blackberries (obviously black) and blueberries (obviously blue). Others overlook red onions and red cabbage (both obviously purple). But everyone agrees that, in 2017, purple is big...

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Here's Why You’re Seeing Purple Food Everywhere

Report: Australia Scores Top 10 Finish for World's Fastest Mobile Broadband

A new report into internet broadband speeds and coverage around the globe has seen Australia fair far better than many of us would have predicted.

The study by British wireless coverage mapping firm OpenSignal saw Australia ranked tenth for fastest mobile broadband in the world and 19th for coverage. You can read the full study here

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Your Commercial Kitchens Trilogy...

Using a Combi Oven, Vacuum Sealer & Blast Chiller will Change the Way you Cook...

Here’s What You'll Learn During This Webinar

• How a Combi Oven will Increase Your Profits without the Headaches...
• Why a Blast Chiller is a “Must Have Piece Of Equipment In Your Kitchen”...
• How a Vacuum Sealer will help you keep your food safe & extend your food's shelf life...
• How combining a Combi Oven, a Blast Chiller & a Vacuum Sealer will elevate what your team can do in your kitchen...

Numbers game

Apprentice numbers are in freefall, the government is very touchy about bringing in overseas workers and the hospitality industry has a huge image problem with young people. So what’s the solution?

“If we keep focusing on traditional apprenticeships as the solution we are stuffed,” says John Hart, CEO of Restaurant & Catering Australia, which estimates that Australia will need 28,000 additional cooks and chefs by 2020, with half of those in NSW alone...

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How to Utilize Google Analytics to Improve Your Restaurant's Website

There is a lot of talk about the importance of data when it comes to marketing your restaurant, and the best place to get it is your website’s analytics.

Applying that data to your marketing, and especially your site itself, requires a serious understanding of what is happening on your site and what the numbers are telling you. Here are some data sets to focus on and ways they can improve your site...

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