Tag Archives: Food and Beverage
10 Surefire Tips to improve your Wine Sales!
The art of selling wine encompasses much more than simply stocking quality bottles. It’s about creating an experience, educating your staff and customers, and understanding the nuances of pairing. It can be easy to forget the basics, so here are some reminders to help you enhance your wine sales with simple, yet effective strategies. Educate […]
The History of the Restaurant Menu…
The history of restaurant menus is a fascinating one, with origins dating back to ancient times. The first recorded menu was apparently found on a stone tablet in ancient Assyria, dating back to 879 BC. The tablet listed the food items served at a banquet hosted by King Ashurnasirpal II, which makes it one of […]
How can you tell if someone is vegan? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you…
You hear this old joke all the time – “How can you tell if someone is vegan? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you, again and again and again…” Much is written about veganism and vegan food and how it can improve our life and the environment, aside from being entertainment for the mainstream population. Having been […]
Observations of a not so Frequent Traveller…
While I generally avoid travelling during the holiday season, there are times when I just can’t avoid being part of the herd, that winds its way through airport terminals, shopping malls or cafés with staff looking tired and worn out from the onslaught over the Christmas period. My recent experience has me questioning the responsibility […]
Where to find the World’s Best Coffee & what are the options?
Discussions about the “world’s best” this or that are by nature very divisive so when I start an article about where to find the world’s best cup of coffee, I know I am asking for trouble… Of course, many factors need to come together to create great coffee. You cannot have great coffee without great […]
Weird Restaurants to Try…or Avoid!!
Great restaurants are hard to find… They require a terrific location, fabulous staff, incredible thought, planning and consistency, matched with a menu and concept that is enduring and where you can’t wait to go back. So, when all of those basic, but extraordinarily difficult things can’t be found or implemented, time to try something else. […]
Dalgona Coffee – Just Why? …and other Bizarre Coffee Options.
There was a time when coffee was just coffee. Something to give you that small lift to get your day going in the morning. The all-important caffeine hit was the objective. If it tasted good that was great, but this paled into insignificance compared to the heart starting boost from that most seductive of drugs […]
The Elite Hotelier 
The (Re) – Emergence of the Takeaway…
It is widely acknowledged that the recent global pandemic has been deeply damaging to the hospitality industry, but out of that cauldron of despair there were a few positives. It brought out the creative streak in many independent hospitality professionals operating small or family businesses and perhaps showed a way forward for the wider hospitality […]