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Around the Industry: Australian Pizza News
Smart Bill Folder Continues To Grow
Smart Bill Folder system provides a unique means
of collecting customer feedback and email addresses
in the Hospitality sector. The system allows online
analysis of all responses and automatic e-marketing
to customers. Smart Bill Folder is a dynamic quality
assurance tool that is presented with the bill.
Essentially is it a small touch screen PDA, packaged
in a bill folder, that patrons can use to tap in their
‘responses' to your questions. Cients enjoy a greater
rate of response then traditional ‘comment cards'.
What's more there is no data entry, and analysis of
results is both immediate and creative. Feedback
collected can include; food/service ratings, age
groups, post code, male/female ratio, where heard
of, etc. Alternatively a Smart Stand or Kiosk can
be utilized in a bistro setting. Business operators
can try a 30 day, no obligation, Free Trial Offer at
www.smartbillfolder.com.au. The Free Trial Offer
includes up to 3 Smart Bill Folders and provides a full
overview of the systems capabilities.
Cuisine Scene Hospitality Solutions:
Phone: (02) 8448 2033;
www.cuisinescene.com.au
smartbillfolder@cuisinescene.com.au
www.smartbillfolder.com.au
www.smartbillfolder.com
Domino's Profit Jumps 75%
Domino's Pizza Enterprises Ltd has lifted its full
year guidance after a stellar result in the first half.
The Australian owned and operated pizza chain
booked a 75.8% jump in net profit in the six months
to December 31 to $6.1 million as it opened 27 new
stores. Total revenue dipped 2% to $115.8 million,
mostly due to the sale of some stores that were
fully owned by the company rather than franchised.
Domino's now expects to beat last year's net profit
of $9.1 million by at least 30%. In November, the
company forecast earnings growth of between 25
and 30% for fiscal 2008.Domino's shares rose 12
cents, or 3.9%, to end at $3.22.The Brisbane-based
company also expects to add 70 new stores to its
network this year, an additional 10 stores over the
previous estimate.
Beech Ovens: Stranger Than Fiction
Many requests have been made from clients and
kitchen designers over the years to custom make
certain items, incorporating traditional cooking
vessels into bespoke works of culinary art. The
incorporation of a full rotisserie in a wood-fired oven,
the only tandoori manufactured and sold to India and
even the largest stone hearth oven ever produced.
Just another day at the office...until recently. After
a short trip to Fiji recently the latest concept oven
arrived at Beech Ovens, an oven that would be made
in the shape of a horse shoe and to fit around a
supporting pillar. This has driven the concept of "If
you can conceptualise it, we can build it" to a whole
new level!! (This excerpt comes from beech's email
newsletter. You can subscribe by emailing James
Garton at jamesg@beechovens.com.au or visiting
their website.)
Lincoln Launched at
Brisbane Fine Food
Comcater launched publicly for the first time their
new range of Lincoln Products at the Fine Food in
Brisbane (March 9th – 11th). Beth Scholer, Food
Scientist and Culinary, showed capabilities of Lincoln
Products at the live kitchen area on the Comcater
stand. Lincoln Foodservice designs, manufactures and
markets commercial and institutional foodservice
cooking equipment serving systems and utensils.
Lincoln is one of the world's largest manufacturers
of conveyor ovens and other cooking equipment
and is the USA's largest manufacturer of commercial
and institutional aluminium foodservice suppliers.
They also had a live kitchen demonstrating Lincoln
Products at Fine Food.
Global Knives Introduced to
Australia
The GLOBAL-PRO Series is for professional
use and are manufactured through the ‘honbazuke',
special blading process. They are on sale only in
Australia via the GLOBAL-PRO website. Through
the ‘honbazuke' blading process, a blade becomes
sharper than that of a normal knife. Each knife is
individually packaged in the traditional Yoshikin
style packaging and makes a great corporate or
personal gift. Yoshikin, the world's leading expert
in manufacturing chef's knives, is introducing he
GLOBAL–PRO series, which until now has been
sold exclusively in Japan and supersedes the original
GLOBAL series. It has been undergo-ing testing on
the Australian Culinary Olympic Team over recent
months. For any inquiries please contact Mitch
Austin at mitch@xtremechef.com.au or Phone 03
9816 9859 and mention you saw it in PMQ's Pizza
Australia. www.xtremechef.com.au
DPos: "Point of Sale made Easy"
DPos is the latest software to come from the
team at DeliverIT. Based on 15 years of industry
experience, DPos has been formed to lead the way
in POS specializing in the pizza industry. DPos is
designed to run on Windows XP using the latest
.NET technology. It can be setup as a single user
system or a multi-user environment using a standard
Windows network. DPos has been created to
handle all your ordering needs including Take-away,
Deliveries, Shop, and Table orders. Customer
tracking has never been so easy with simple reports
to provide you with all your customer queries.
Designed with simplicity and flexibility, DPos can be
setup to suit your individual needs. New staff can be
trained in as little as 10 minutes! At DeliverIT we
pride ourselves on our service and support, with
expert and friendly advice readily available.
Call us now to discuss how DPos can help you on
0419 811 511.
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