31 AUG - 3 SEP 2026 | Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre

Foodservice and Catering

While these strange days have seen businesses close their doors, others have weathered lockdown through creative redirection of their businesses, and thrived in these unsettling times. Here’s an optimistic look at our food scene of the future.
There’s nothing like a pandemic to deliver an opportunity to assess some of hospitality’s pain points and to treasure the aspects that give the food world heart and soul.
Owner of The Left Handed Chef in South Melbourne, Ehud Malka’s Shabbat Boxes are helping to unite families and friends who are unable to congregate in person on culturally significant days of the week.
Finding creative ways to make essential sanitising part of the hospitality experience.
An acclaimed Italian restaurant with 13 locations across the globe, 400 Gradi – which won “worlds best pizza” in 2014 – wasn’t able to fit patrons in their restaurants amid COVID-19 restrictions.
Zackary Furst has had difficult times along the way, but he knows character-building experiences have set him up for a fruitful career.
Chef-turned-caterer Sophie Storen on finding 'her' people and understanding what success means.

Nestlé GOLDEN CHEF’S HAT AWARD is gearing up for the 2019 national finals, having sourced the best and brightest young chefs from across the country. Australia’s longest running culinary competition for young chefs has seen a host of new chef talent step up this year to put themselves to the

You’ve been doing it for years — spending hours every week creating your staff’s schedule, posting it in the breakroom, and furiously updating throughout the week as employees call in sick. And while some industries are quick to adopt new technology, others take longer to acclimatize. It can sometimes take