Restaurants, hotels, resorts, function centres and caterers all around the world are always sourcing for innovative concepts which offer a competitive edge to attract corporate clients. An area which often lacks innovation within the food and beverage department is the banquet menu kit. The reality is that many banquet menus are generally the same as their competition. So how can a venue differ their banquet menu kit?

Some time ago, Ian Crough, Executive Sous Chef of the Hyatt Regency Guam suggested that I develop a comprehensive banquet menu kit using Native Australian flavours or bush tucker. Ian’s idea was that every hotel and resort around the world could offer as part of their banquet menu kit an Australian Cuisine concept or themed event. This might seem a little pre-emptive giving Australian cuisine is still evolving, but most banquet menu kits already include Italian, French, Thai, Chinese, American and Middle Eastern concepts, so why not Australian Cuisine?

The Australian Menu Planning Guide ebook is 48 pages of dishes and concepts for restaurants, hotels, conference, function and venue caterers who are interested in discovering ways to integrate Australian ingredients into their banquet menus and banqueting kits.

Your Banquet Menu Kit  could even include a series of Australian menus offered including breakfast, morning tea, lunch dinner and cocktail party all with the unique flavours of Australia. Australian ingredients such as Wattleseed, Alpine Pepper, Yakajirri and Paperbark together with Australian game meats such as kangaroo and emu have really become popular on menus.

Apart from developing your banquet menu kit, the Australian Menu Planning Guide can be used to develop menus for any type of Australian events such as dinners at Australian Embassy or Australian High Commission’s, Australian Chamber of Commerce events or any other Australian lunch or dinner event. Other occasions include Australia Day (26th January), Anzac Day (25th April), Melbourne Cup (first Tuesday in November) to name a few.

Conference organisers and event managers will find tremendous value in the Australian Menu Planning Guide also, as they can build the concept of a themed Australian event, then provide it to their caterers or function venues to develop authentic native Australian menus for their clients.

Hundreds of chefs around the world now use Australian native ingredients on their menus everyday. Thousands of dishes have been created featuring them and probably millions of diners now recognize that an original, unmistakable, Australian cuisine is emerging from this concerted effort.

When you order the Australian Menu Planning Guide, you’ll receive regular updates and special offers for 12 months. So when we publish an update, you’ll receive an update within days via email. The Australian Menu Planning Guide ebook comes as a PDF and requires Adobe Acrobat to be installed to be read. This is handy for chefs that travel.

So join the elite group of creative chefs, chefs, food and beverage directors who are pioneers in their own exploration of the newest concept in food anywhere in the world.

Order a copy of the Australian Menu Planning Guide.