by Stephen Hickmore | Feb 5, 2026 | Featured, Hospitality Opinion Blog, News, Podcasts
Walk into any professional kitchen and you’ll see the uniform straight away: chef jacket, apron, non-slip shoes… and, increasingly, tattoos. Once upon a time, a tattoo in the kitchen meant you’d probably done time somewhere rough – either in life or in a Paris...
by Stephen Hickmore | Jan 30, 2026 | Featured, News, Podcasts
Johannesburg, January 2026 – From a single hall at NASREC in 1986 to one of South Africa’s longest-running trade shows, Hostex 2026 marks a major milestone: 40 years of connecting professionals in food, drink, and hospitality. The story began when Gerald Dreyer, then...
by External Contributor | Nov 25, 2025 | Featured, News, Podcasts
Airline catering sits at the intersection of high-volume foodservice and precision logistics. Unlike restaurants or hotels, airline caterers must produce safe, shelf-stable meals at scale, synchronise them to flight schedules, meet exact weight and packaging rules,...
by External Contributor | Nov 20, 2025 | Featured, News, Podcasts
The Evolution of the Chef’s Role Once confined to the kitchen line and structured according to the brigade system devised by Auguste Escoffier, chefs today are increasingly stepping into the world of business ownership, concept development and global brand building....
by Stephen Hickmore | Nov 13, 2025 | Featured, Hospitality Opinion Blog, News
“It’s not the Critic that counts; not the person who points out how the strong person stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the person in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood…” The famous ‘Man in...
