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52,000 dishes served at
Invictus Games Sydney 2018
The Invictus Games kicked off on Saturday October 20 for a week of sporting events designed to inspire recovery and support the rehabilitation of wounded, injured and ill service men and women. With 500 competitors to feed as well as their 1,000 friends, family and supporters, the catering team at Sydney Showground had to create 52,000 specially-designed meals.
To meet the important task, Dwane Goodman, head of catering and customer service at Sydney Showground, reveals that his team “spent five months ... developing our menus and preparing for the Invictus Games Sydney 2018.”
Rockpool Dining Group
back pays staff $1.6m
Australia’s biggest hospitality group, Rockpool Dining Group, has said it has made “significant progress” in the “compliance with employment obligations”, after agreeing to back pay $1.6 million to underpaid workers for the 2017-18 financial year.
A Fairfax Media investigation earlier this year exposed that the company had required many of its permanent chefs to work unpaid overtime, pushing their wage below the minimum rates of the award. In the wake of these events, Rockpool Dining Group released a statement which revealed that the restaurant chain was working hard “to replace and modernise legacy systems and procedures”.