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The Coffee Club finds new Hamilton home at region's first true Motorway Service Centre
Date: 11 Oct 2017The Coffee Club New Zealand has opened the doors to The Coffee Club Te Rapa Service Centre in Hamilton. Hamilton’s first true motorway service centre sits on the major entrance route to Hamilton. Anchored by BP, it is home to a number of iconic retail brands. The Coffee Club Te Rapa Service Centre holds a prime spot next to the newly opened Perry Bike Park. The launch is a fairly recent development. Only a fortnight ago, store owner, Richard Sun, was heading up The Coffee ... more
Fun for the kids these school holidays
Date: 6 Oct 2017The school holidays are here, so why not treat yourself to a coffee and muffin while the kids entertain themselves with a Muffin Break Kids Meal and Slap Band. Muffin Break’s Kids Meal offer ticks all the boxes with a Mini Choc-Chip Muffin or Cookie, Sandwich, Charlie’s juice and 1x Muffin Break Slap Band. The Slap Bands come in 4 fun colours, with one to be included in every meal so kids can collect them all! Available for a limited time only, while stocks ... more
Ready ... Set .... Eat!!
Date: 4 Oct 2017This year’s Taste of Auckland in partnership with Electrolux just keeps getting better with a host of big names in the food world newly added to the line-up including Nick Honeyman from Paris Butter, Simon Gault and Giraffe, Nic Watt of True Food & Yoga and The Tasting Shed’s, Ganesh Raj. From 16-19 November, Taste of Auckland at Western Springs will become a food lover’s paradise with free live cooking demonstrations, intimate chef experiences, a gourmet ... more
ServiceIQ on-job training qualifications are airborne with Emirates Flight Catering in the UAE
Date: 3 Oct 2017ServiceIQ has successfully taken its workplace education programmes to an exciting new customer and market overseas. In September, the ITO for New Zealand’s aviation, hospitality and other service sectors, awarded internationally recognised qualifications to its first graduates in the UAE. The group of 12 trainees are all employed by Emirates Flight Catering in its giant commercial kitchen complex in Dubai. Over six months, the catering cooks have been able to develop their craft and ... more
TalentNZ: Start with skills but end with qualified
Date: 28 Sep 2017The open letter signed this week by 100 companies has been applauded by the industry training organisation for the nation’s booming service sectors, ServiceIQ. But it wants a postscript. “Tourism is New Zealand’s leading source of overseas income, yet it’s crying out for talented people,” says ServiceIQ chief executive Dean Minchington. “The same applies to hospitality and retail. An insistence on someone holding a tertiary qualification to land a ... more
2018 Marlborough Wine and Food Festival
Date: 26 Sep 2017The longest running and best wine and food festival in New Zealand has announced an even bigger and better line up of chefs and bands for the event, held on Saturday 10th February 2018 at the historic Brancott Vineyard in Marlborough. The headline act has been announced with the NZ All-Stars performing the show Marley: Celebrate the Legend, who are made up of NZ music royalty with names such as Tiki Taane, Boh Runga, Fran Kora, Anna Coddington and Joel Shadbolt each taking lead ... more
Ceres Organics and Nadia Lim present New Zealand’s first Peruvian pop-up restaurant
Date: 25 Sep 2017Celebrity chef and intrepid explorer Nadia Lim has teamed up with Ceres Organics to host New Zealand’s first Peruvian pop-up restaurant, inspired by the provenance of quinoa. To celebrate the launch of Ceres Organics White Quinoa in its new world first, see-through home compostable pack, Pilkingtons in Auckland will be transformed into a Peruvian restaurant for one night only on Friday 6 October. The pop-up will then reopen its doors at Kadett in Christchurch on Wednesday 11 ... more
Who do you think will win the election?
Date: 22 Sep 2017It’s election time and the results are in for Muffin Break’s Unofficial Bean Poll! Since 2002 the Bean Poll has had a fantastic track record of accurately predicting the winner of each election. So with one day to go, who will be New Zealand’s next winning party? Key findings: South Island clearly favoured Labour with 46.2% versus National on 42.3% North Island clearly favoured National with 45.5% versus Labour on 40.8% Greens and NZ ... more
My Kitchen Rules winners open New Zealand’s first-ever bone broth bar in Cambridge
Date: 19 Sep 2017Cambridge besties and My Kitchen Rules NZ winners Neena Truscott and Belinda MacDonald are bringing an international trend to Kiwi shores with the launch of New Zealand’s first pop up broth bar dedicated to organic bone broth. Broth Bar, a wellness hub and takeaway pop up broth bar by The Green Kitchen opens today (Tuesday 19 September) on Cambridge’s Alpha Street, offering flavoursome, nutrient-rich broths. Since winning the reality cooking show title in 2014, ... more
Best Ōra King Dish Awards finalists announced
Date: 19 Sep 2017Four New Zealand chefs at the forefront of New Zealand cuisine will travel to Japan this October to participate in the grand finale of the 2017 Ōra King Awards. Joining leading culinary professionals from around the world, they will embark upon a unique gastronomic tour of the country. New to 2017, the prize of a chef’s tour to Japan was introduced in order to mark the fifth year of the Ōra’s competition. Chefs from around the world were challenged to enter their ... more
