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The first AACS Supplier Expo will take place on August 22nd the day of the PJ Scholarship Award Judging and the Gala and Awards Dinner. This will be held at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Melbourne from midday. Come and meet with some of the key suppliers to the industry and see the offers that they have, new products and innovative ideas for the Convenience channel and have a cuppa with us. The detail of exhibitors is as follow:
Read MoreAACS Convenience Leadership program
“There is still time to reserve your places for the AACS Convenience Leadership program in July. View the Brochure One of our feature presenters on Foodservice is Dr Nancy T. Caldarola, Ph.D., R.D. from the USA. Nancy Caldarola, Education Director for NACS Center for Achieving Foodservice Excellence (CAFÉ), has been involved with the hospitality industry for more than 40 years. She has led the development and delivery of NACS CAFÉ educational programs, including the Certified Convenience Foodservice Manager program and the Advanced Foodservice Strategy and Menu Management programs. She is a frequent contributor to the NACS Magazine, the Restaurant Informer magazine, is a speaker for NACS and restaurant associations, and is a consultant to convenience store chains and QSR chains. Her experience in the restaurant/foodservice segment includes senior operations and management assignments with ARAMark, Pizza Hut, Inc., Chi-Chi’s Mexican Restaurants, Duff’s Famous Smorgasbord, Friendly Ice Cream, and AFC Enterprises, Inc.,…
Read MoreAACS Renews Calls for Common Sense to Prevail
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Read MoreFOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Sergeant Michelle O’Rielley Dear Managers, State Crime Prevention Branch would like to advise you and your members on a number of resources available that may assist your industry in improving security and minimising the opportunity for robberies. Local Crime Prevention Sections are available to provide managers and staff with the ‘SAPOL Armed Robbery Prevention Kit’. This kit provides up to date information including strategies to reduce the risk of crime and improve the safety of staff and customers. Also included is a suspect description form, a ‘No Cash’, ‘Keep Cash Low’ and ‘Height’ sticker, a ‘Temporarily Closed’ sign and a ‘CODE A’ Poster. The kit is supported with a Local Crime Prevention member available to give an ‘Armed Robbery Prevention’ presentation that provides invaluable information regarding premises design; cash handling tips; reducing and minimising the risk to both the staff and business; CCTV information; and staff information including personal safety…
Read MoreIn California, Furious Fight Over Raising Cigarette Tax
ADAM NAGOURNEY June 3, 2012 New York Times LOS ANGELES — California has some of the toughest antismoking laws in the country — it is illegal, in some places, to smoke in your own apartment — and boasts the second-lowest per capita smoking rate in the 50 states. But for all the disdain toward smoking here, it has been 14 years since California raised its cigarette tax, a tribute to the power of the tobacco industry here and the waning of this state’s antitobacco dominance. That may be about to change. An array of health and anticancer groups has rallied behind a ballot initiative to impose a $1-a-pack cigarette tax to finance cancer research. And that has provoked a $47 million storm of advertisements, overwhelmingly financed by the tobacco industry, which is outspending proponents by nearly four to one to defeat the biggest threat it has faced in over a…
Read MoreShopping trolleys to go hi-tech to stop dumping
John Masanauskas Herald Sun June 04, 2012 COUNCILS are forcing supermarkets to fit shopping trolleys with special hi-tech sensors to stop them being dumped. And retailers face fines for failing to retrieve abandoned trolleys within a given time. While most councils prosecute people who dump trolleys, some are now also holding supermarkets accountable for the problem. Boroondara Council has fines of up to $2500 for supermarkets that breach the new laws. The council is demanding retailers fit trolleys with a device that stops them being taken outside a designated area. Coles is testing a system at up to 30 stores where sensors force a computerised caster to lock the trolley wheel when it crosses a certain boundary. Boroondara requires trolleys to carry a plate identifying retailers’ contact details. A council report found there were growing safety concerns over abandoned shopping trolleys.
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