For the month of May, participating Auckland restaurants and bars will be celebrating the Eat, Drink, Love Ponsonby 2022.
Lion is close to completing a reshaping of its NZ operations, allowing it to emerge from Covid concentrated on core.
Good Spirits Hospitality has named director Matt Adams as chair designate after Duncan Makeig signalled his intention to resign the chair following the upcoming June board meeting.
A Southland company has been fined $10,400 after failing to keep a fish sales record system for seafood it was moving between its Te Anau restaurants.
Covid-19 concerns continue to dissipate, but venues and suppliers must now reckon with a reduction in disposable income.
The hospitality industry says changes to migrant worker settings will be a welcome relief for businesses struggling to fill vacancies as the country’s border restrictions ease.
Stats NZ said that in actual terms, monthly card spending on hospitality continued to decrease, down $56m or 4.9% compared with April 2021.
The New Zealand Hospitality Conference is back in-person in July after a two-year hiatus and with a theme of “The Future of Hospitality”.
Food rescue app Foodprint has gone live in the Waikato region officially launching in Hamilton, Cambridge, Te Awamutu and Raglan.
Havana Coffee Works Roastery opened yesterday in Parnell, Auckland – its second location alongside Wellington.
NZ sales were flat as Omicron disrupted store opening hours and the sales mix, particularly in Auckland.
Lion New Zealand is expanding its Healthy Hospo health and wellbeing program to offer in-person events around New Zealand in 2022.
The deal to acquire the 10-strong national portfolio falls over after failing to attract an equity backer.
Entries are now open for Hospitality New Zealand’s 24th annual Hospitality Awards for Excellence, which will be held in person at a gala dinner on 27 July at the Grand Millennium Auckland.
Consumer spending in hospitality over the week leading up to Easter Monday reached $202.8m, bucking a 23% downward trend over the last eight months following the Covid Delta outbreak, according to payment data from Worldline.
Two Thumb Brewing Co is taking over the Christchurch site of the former Fermentist Brewery and Taproom, owned and operated by Lion.
Pizza chain Hell has expanded its reading challenge – now in its eighth year – with the addition of The Great NZ Book trip.
Queensland is initial focus for pizza franchise before a nationwide expansion is considered.
The hospitality industry has welcomed the ditching of capacity limits in time for the important Easter, Anzac Day and school holidays.
The Great New Zealand Toastie Takeover is back for a fifth year.
Bars, cafes, and restaurants will be able to fill up again with capacity and seating rules lifted, says Chris Hipkins.
Lone Star has opened its first hotel restaurant within the Mercure Auckland Queen Street.
Auckland-headquartered international coffee chain franchise Cooks Coffee Company intends to exercise the power of sale of shares, following a significant repositioning which included a name change, $5.5m capital raise and share consolidation.
Shane Bracken steps up to the top job following a turbulent period for the sandwich franchise, especially in Australia.
Hospitality businesses will continue to struggle following the government’s decision to keep the country in the red setting of the Covid-19 Protection Framework, say industry groups.
The completion of Auckland pub group Good Spirits Hospitality’s conditional takeover of restaurant owner Nourish Group has been delayed until Q2.
Burger Fuel Group says it is experiencing some short-term, temporary store closures as a result of the Omicron outbreak.
Good Spirits Hospitality has agreed a waiver with its lender Pacific Dawn in respect of the interest due and payable for the quarter ended 31 March 2022.
Pizza chain Hell has launched an Impossible Burger Pizza 2.0 using plant-based food company Impossible Food’s beef product.
Hamilton council has approved a 50% reduction in fees for food safety verifications that take place before the end of June this year.
The changes do not go far enough to help struggling businesses, says industry groups.
Entries are now open for the 2022 Nestlé Golden Chef’s Hat Award targeted at chefs aged 16-25.
The earlier border opening will save many businesses from collapse, says Hospitality New Zealand.
The QSR franchise has used the pandemic to validate new food concepts, and is now working up a plan for a bricks and mortar rollout.
Dunedin’s Alto Cafe has won $10,000 cash, as well as $5000 towards a new website, as part of a hospitality relief campaign.
Hospitality and accommodation operators may still have to put up prices despite the fuel and transport cost cuts announced by the government, says Hospitality New Zealand.
Hospitality venues continue to feel the pressure of Omicron with a 10% drop in card spending last month.
Government guidelines on wage subsidies need to be clearer to protect small business owners including hospitality operators who are being fined for misinterpreting the rules.
Consumer spending at hospitality businesses remains down nearly a quarter on pre-Covid levels, according to data from payment services provider Worldline.
Small businesses are continuing to suffer under the pressure of Omicron and phase three restrictions.
NZ GM Cameron Toomey says finding people to deliver goods will get harder as the volume of delivery products increases.
The new venture is being backed by the Christchurch investor with at least $12m ploughed into it to date.
Business and hospitality groups are pleased the government is ditching self-isolation requirements for returning New Zealanders.
Rising costs saw some margin erosion, particularly in Australia and New Zealand.
The listed companies brush off Covid-19 chills as they look to grow via distribution deals and acquisitions.
t to phase 3 of the Omicron response and an adjustment to conditions in the government’s financial support package announced on Monday.
Hospitality New Zealand is warning many of the hardest-hit businesses in the sector may be ineligible for the government’s new support package.
It will help but many in hospitality may still have to shut, say industry groups.
Three payments capped at $24k each will be available for hard-hit businesses.
Job ads posted on website Seek reached a record in January, however hospitality and tourism ads were down 4% from December.
The beverage giant urges Finance Minister Grant Robertson to “act swiftly, decisively and meaningfully”.
The prominent hospitality brand has called on the government to throw a lifeline to the sector.
A sobering film showing the impact the red traffic light setting is having on hospitality operators across the country, courtesy of Hospitality New Zealand.
The beverage maker expands into Pita Pit’s 87 outlets in a push into NZ foodservice.
Half the industry has seen revenue plummet by more than 40% since NZ shifted to red, says Hospitality NZ.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand wants feedback on new safety and management standards for food service and retail businesses.
Hospitality operators are battling to stay open – and afloat – after Covid cases force widespread closures at the resort.
Restaurants are reporting a near 60% overall decline in revenues since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
Cooks Global Foods says sales at its UK-based cafe franchises recovered from Covid-19 ahead of the wider UK coffee market in 2021.
Central Otago’s Amisfield has scooped a couple of key prizes at the prestigious Cuisine Good Food Awards.
World Pizza Day has a charitable feel for fast-food chain Domino’s.
Hospitality New Zealand says the sector also deserves financial assistance to cushion the blow from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hospitality New Zealand says New Zealand’s move into the red traffic light setting has scared people into a “voluntary lockdown”.
The Restaurant Association says 40% of its members reported having to deal with rude or aggressive customers due to the transition on Friday to the traffic light Covid-19 Protection Framework.
More than 232,000 jobs are dependent on New Zealand’s hospitality sector, 137,000 of them directly, according to a new report.
Karma Drinks will donate $12,070 to the #HandsUp4Hospo initiative after its recent ‘Hospo Friday’ initiative – a take on the popular Black Friday.
Exclusion from the government’s $37.5m summer reactivation scheme fro Auckland “another kick in the guts” for struggling hospo morale.
