In a move that would make Al Capone blush, retail giant Dan Murphy's has turned its hand to hospitality, opening it's Hampton Street, Melbourne, Zero% bar - a bar with 30 cocktails, and 300 products, all either without alcohol, or ultra low in it. It's an emerging market, just 1000th the size of the alcohol market, but with 43% of drinkers wanting to reduce their drinking without reducing their enjoyment of a drink, Zero% shows them how. Could this trend also help hospitality, whose lunch trade suffers from a low average spend? 

TAFE Queensland’s “Build a Better Business” course is an innovative, flexible delivery course that pairs students with industry experts knowledgeable in contemporary issues students face daily. Designed for aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners, this accelerated, highly subsidised, 16-week program creates unique business and financial plans, and builds the skills required to be successful in their businesses. Participants require no formal qualifications other than 12-months of experience in business. The Build a Better Business course is a brilliant adaptation of the traditional TAFE model, promising to support the current and next generation of business owners and entrepreneurs in Queensland.

I had lunch at The Lounge yesterday, Level 11 of the Library Building at UNSW, and liked this simple table setting with

The global beverage industry has answered the call from Lana Svitankova, Ukraines first ever Cicerone, from VARVAR Brewery based in Kyiv. Lana launched #DrinkersWithUkraine, a fundraising effort that includes a 'solidarity brew', a 'Ukraine Anti-Imperial Stout RESIST', with an open-sourced beer recipe developed by displaced Ukrainian brewersDonations to the Red Cross from its sale is all that is asked in return.Award-winning UK brewery Siren Craft Brewery, based in Berkshire, recently re-released MAVKA, a collaboration with Lana in 2018, with 100% of proceeds going to effort the humanitairan crisis. MAVKA is a mythological forest guardian from Ukrainian folklore.www.drinkersforukraine.com/#SOLIDARITY-BREW 

Think this option is great. Healthy food options from a vending machine. ...https://www.schiphol.nl/en/at-schiphol/eat-and-drink/facilities/health-food-wall-plaza

 After suffering 3rd-degree burns from an explosion and house fire, Jeremy Kronk dedicated his life to preventing grease fires in commercial kitchens.Although Australia has strict regulations on kitchen exhaust hoods, ongoing maintenance is difficult, and the cleaning of them is almost always out-sourced, and reliant on chemicals agents.Kronk founded ‘Shepherd FIlters’, a wool based, biodegradable, disposable, fire-resistant grease filter.Wool is naturally resistant to bacteria, mould, and mildew, absorbs and neutralises many harmful pollutants from the air, and has such an affinity for oil, that 98% of grease particles are caught BEFORE accumulating inside the hood.www.shepherdfilters.com