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The Sunday Roast: Burnout

The restaurant world is big. International. Even in Hobart, new venues open every week. What’s the result? Burnout. And the bar has never been higher. In Australia, if not the world, there’s a chronic shortage of chefs, cooks, floor staff. Too many venues. Not enough staff. What can we do? If anything?  There’s one word…

Papering over the Storm

Is this your life? Just how long will the thin veneer of paper last with that storm when it hits? And hit it will. Surely as day follows night. So many people are talking about chef suicides, the burn rate, the churn rate, the cut and run rate, but no one seems to have stepped up…

5 Tools to Turn Your Work Life Around

We’re all in this together. You’re really stuck in a collaborative environment, in Hospitality, so if you’re a lone wolf, it’s going to be tough – for you and everyone around you. Want to prosper? Not just survive? Here’s 5 things that will help you get there. But then, you have to do the hard…