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Café manager hit with $27k fine for attempting to “get away with” underpaying overseas staff
The former manager of an Oliver Brown café on the Gold Coast has been fined $27,200 for ripping off overseas workers. Steven Chung was penalised in the Federal Circuit Court after admitting his involvement in the underpayment of 12 employees at the café in Surfers Paradise. Proceedings were brought against Chung by the Fair […]
“It wasn’t the original plan but we couldn’t ignore it”: FoodByUs takes on $8b café sector
The founders of Sydney-based startup FoodByUs have evolved their online homemade meal marketplace to provide cafés and wholesale food suppliers with a distribution solution that doubles as a matchmaking service. FoodByUs was conceived by Ben Lipschitz, founder of footwear brand Flipsters, together with Tim Chandler, Menulog’s former lead developer, and Menulog co-founder Gary Munitz. It launched in […]
Full of beans: How Frank Andrews left behind banking and built a coffee roasting empire
Four years ago, Sydney’s Frank Andrews began to transition away from a nearly 20-year career in the banking sector, where he was earning a six-figure sum, to pursue his passion for coffee roasting as a legitimate business. With limited hospitality experience, he faced an uphill battle – especially considering the fiercely competitive nature of the local café […]
‘Too few innovate in the hospitality industry,’ says The Grounds co-founder Ramzey Choker
A personal tragedy led prominent hospitality figure, Ramzey Choker, to reimagine what was possible in his industry. The result? The Grounds of Alexandria – an immersive, acre-sized venue in Sydney’s Inner West that continues to defy categorisation and attract crowds nearly five years on. From a very young age, Choker worked in his father’s Alexandria-based […]
Sipping on success: KeepCup’s co-founder talks spreading her ‘Reuse Revolution’ worldwide
Seven years ago, siblings Abigail and Jamie Forsyth founded KeepCup. They envisioned it as a business and a line of eco-friendly coffee cups in service of a campaign for behavioural change: ‘from discard to reuse’. Today, more than five million consumers worldwide have joined their ‘Reuse Revolution’. Abigail, the company’s managing director, spoke to Dynamic Business about the […]
From rundown café to e-commerce giant: the rise and rise of SOL Group’s Emily McWaters
How do you take $10,000 and turn it into $10 million turnover? Best ask Emily McWaters, the tenacious law school dropout who got her hands dirty, shrugged off the naysayers and – with a helping hand from her sisters – became one of Australia’s most successful e-commerce professionals. In 2003, Emily, then 20-years-old, quit […]
Gloria Jean’s café fined $110,000 for underpaying $8 an hour
The operators-owners of a Gloria Jean’s café in Melbourne have been penalized a total of $110,500 for paying employees as little as $8 per hour.
Dining industry clawing its way back
It’s been a tough slog for the Australian restaurant industry, but the latest survey data shows that the industry grew by 3.17% nationally over the last financial year.
Changes to surcharge displays for restaurant and cafés
Restaurants and cafés will no longer have to produce separate menus for weekends and public holidays when they might apply a surcharge.