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If you’ve seen the recent announcement from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) around card surcharges, you’re not alone in wondering...

2025 was a bit of a year.In what began as something approaching normal for those in hospitality, things, as they often do, were quick...

Menus don’t sit still for long these days. They can’t.In a climate where costs keep shifting, ingredients swing in and out of reach...

Hospitality operators across Australia are quietly rewriting the rulebook. This year, contactless payment terminals top the list of...

In hospitality, the difference between a good menu and a great one often comes down to one thing: data.When it comes to designing a...

Maintaining and growing a retail business is an enormous undertaking. As you know, despite the perceived simplicity of the business...

Retail’s always been a game of margins, and in a landscape of rising costs, fragile supply chains and fickle customer habits, those...

Surcharges have long sat at the centre of a hospitality tug-of-war. Customers question them. Operators rely on them. And somewhere...

In theory, Australian diners are united by a shared love of good food, good company and good value. But in practice? It depends which...

It’s nearly impossible to exist as a restaurant in the modern age without some sort of web presence, and restaurant review sites...

The Australian hospitality industry has always been driven by its ability to adapt. Whether responding to shifting diner preferences,...

I remember when I had my own place.I’d slipped the shackles of working for somebody else, and I could finally do things my way. No...

The 2025–26 Federal Budget offers a mixed bag for the hospitality and retail sectors. While some measures provide some relief, they...

Australia is a nation of diners.It is part and parcel of Australian culture that we enjoy heading out to share a meal with friends...

Consider this scenario: it’s June, and you’ve just moved into an apartment with a large balcony. You decide to purchase some patio...

“The hospitality industry is just like Rome—we lurch from one kind of disaster to the next, but in between, it’s just so much...

The landscape of the restaurant industry is one that exists both in the physical and the abstract: it’s both brick & mortar and online...

In the ever-evolving world of hospitality, it can be challenging to predict what’s around the corner—particularly after a tumultuous...

This year, Lightspeed was proud to be the presenting partner of the Good Food Symposium.The Good Food Symposium is a first-of-its-kind...

Piccolo Me have created the universal cafe.Big call, I know, but it’s true.You see, they’ve managed to craft something in which...

Linen House was founded 30 years ago, by Gordon and Michelle Duncan, originally starting life as a wholesale business.After transitioning...