Category: Hospitality Industry
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GAY ICON THE IMPY TAGGED WITH SWASTIKA
Police are on the hunt for a person who vandalised multiple sites in Sydney’s inner west with an illegal Nazi symbol, including Universal Hotels’ lauded and recently listed Impy in Erskineville. Offensive iconography and words were found on a number of political posters in the Newtown, Enmore and Erskineville areas early last week, and officers…
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Melbourne Winery opens with dedicated cheese cellar – hospitality
Melbourne Winery is set to open today. It’s being called the city’s first urban winery – but what does that actually mean? Barman & Larder – the group running recently launched Il Mercato Centrale and St Kilda’s Flour Child – is behind the venture. While it’s both a cellar door and tasting room, the Flinders…
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BACK ON TAP: JEFFARES SETS STAGE FOR PARAN PLACE REBOOT
Co-founder of leading independent Melbourne brewery Stomping Ground Brewing Co Steve Jeffares recently announced his next endeavour, currently under the working title of ‘Paran Place Project’. Well known for achievements such as the Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular (GABS) festival, the GABS Hottest 100 and The Local Taphouse, Jeffares has stepped back from his full-time role…
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MUCKA BUP UP FOR GRABS
Muckadilla’s tenacious and hard-working hotel, central Queensland icon the Mucka Bup, is being sold by a devoted local who helped keep the town on the map. The township of Muckadilla is found roughly 40 kilometres from Roma, counting just 38 local residents in the 2021 Census. In 1912 the pub was built. In 1959 the…
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WORKERS COMP RULING IN ‘UNSUSTAINABLE’ SYSTEM
A landmark case has resulted in a former manager at Twin Willows Hotel ordered to repay Laundy Hotels $50K workers compensation plus interest after being sprung simultaneously working at another pub. Only a few months after being hired as a venue manager at the Laundy’s HQ pub in Bass Hill, in 2022, Jonalee Magtoto Kopko…
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C!nc Hospitality gears up for Cruise Bar relaunch – hospitality
Unrivalled views of the Sydney Opera House and CBD are back on the menu at Cruise Bar and Restaurant with the C!nc hospitality venue gearing up to reopen in time for Vivid. The venue will make a grand return in early May after months of extensive renovations. Set within the glass walls of Sydney’s Overseas…
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Melbourne Greek restaurant faces suspected arson attack – hospitality
Yarraville restaurant Eleni’s Kitchen and Bar, owned by sisters Eleftheria and Anatoli Amanatidis, has faced its second fire in less than a year. Victoria police reported that the offenders drove a white Toyota SUV into the rear of the restaurant and set it alight, before fleeing in a second vehicle. Firefighters attended the scene and…
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Fair Work cracks down on record keeping – hospitality
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) conducted a significant nationwide blitz on employer records last week. The regulator conducted surprise inspections in Hobart, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, and Cairns last week, visiting about 50 businesses. Independent butchers and bakeries were among the retailers targeted, along with repair shops, florists grocery stores, and drycleaners. The FWO conducted…
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WOJO OFFERS HEADACHE-FREE PAYROLL – PubTIC
Australian payroll and employment software Wojo is looking to simplify the regular headache of calculating wages and conditions, through one integrated system. Addressing a need in the market, Wojo was built to solve the common challenge of fragmented systems that don’t provide automated interpretation of Awards. Surpassing legacy systems that only cater to one client…
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LOCAL COUPLE TRANSFORMS BOLT INN INTO GOURMET GETAWAY
Brought back from the brink of oblivion, Uralla locals have turned the town’s historic local into one of a growing number of regional tourism destinations. In 2021, PubTIC reported on a Roche Group acquisition, when the group purchased Uralla’s Bolt Inn from the Moore family. However, less than a year later the dilapidated pub changed…