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'DNA security' targeting pub robberies

The providers of an innovative DNA security system now have their sights set on the Australian pub sector, having recently inked a deal to roll out the...

Pub cheap eats drag in punters

Perth pubs and bars are fighting back against the city's reputation as an expensive place to eat, with many venues offering customers bargain meals for...

‘About right’ not good enough

Operators of fast-food food outlets in Brisbane have found out the hard way that paying staff what they ‘thought was about right’ isn’t good enough. As...

Bikie bans dangerous to enforce, say Adelaide restaurant owners

Before closing for Christmas renovations, Rigoni's Bistro kept a list of police orders banning bikies from entering the premises. But Rigoni's Bistro...

Be gone, nasty customer

Sure, it got hot this week, but tempers reached boiling point at celebrity chef Jared Ingersoll's Danks Street Depot on Tuesday. For the first time...

Gold Coast makes good

Seven years ago when I left Queensland's Gold Coast, where I studied, I left behind a culinary wasteland: milk bars where the air was thick with vaporised...

Snail trail

There was a time when les escargots were indelibly associated with French restaurants in the Aussie suburbs. Just as indelible was the drenching in garlic...

Time is prime to study hotel management

Predictions of record growth in the Asia-Pacific hotel and resort sector over the next five years equates to a prime opportunity for school-leavers considering...

Rydges brands Freo’s Esplanade Hotel

Rydges Hotels and Resorts has been appointed by Primewest to manage the 300 room Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle, Western Australia. Primewest entered a...

Fire at Lansdowne Hotel: Owner speaks

Lansdowne Hotel owner Ben Walsh has spoken exclusively to TheShout after the Sydney pub was saved this morning from a fire in the accommodation rooms...