  Edition 14 2009
Fortnightly Newsletter
Welcome to the 14th edition of Service Worx e-newsletter.
Restaurant Industry Outlook
The latest American Express Dining Industry Research, conducted by Galaxy Research shows that the nation hasn't losts its appetite for eating out over recent times, it has simply changed its habits. This means that the labor market p  redictions for our industry remain valid. There are still plenty of jobs available for job seekers, and great career options available. According to the research, in the next six months only 6% of businesses expect to be selling up or out of business while 32% expect to be expanding and of those with increased revenues 69% expect to expand. 30 per cent expect to be refocussing their business into other areas. One third (34%) will continue to invest in employees in the next six months, 26% will try to get by with fewer casuals and 25% will switch more to casual staff. Only 4% say that they are most likely to consider laying off permanent staff in the next six months. Overall, the outlook for food businesses in the next six months is not as bad as might be expected considering the economic downturn. Half (50%) say the outlook for the next six months is steady while 22% say that the outlook is positive. Only a quarter (26%) have a negative outlook.
Discover Hospitality CDs
As some of you may be aware we have produced a CD replicating the discoverhospitality website. The CD has now been packaged and is ready for distribution. We have 5000, so enough for every, RICA, LCP and School Australia wide.
If you could please advise how many you would like for your region we will organize for them to be couriered to you. All responses should be directed to Hayley at restncat@restaurantcater.asn.au. This is great opportunity for schools to have access to the latest careers information on the hospitality industry, with a direct link to both the discoverhospitality website and the discoverjobs websites. To the RICAs that already received the CDs and started distributing them - thanks so much we hope they are being well received.
Preparing for Workplacement in the Hospitality IndustryThis is a resource available as a PowerPoint presentation that has been extremely well received and used Australia wide by teachers and careers advisers in High Schools, and both Public and Private Training Providers. Restaurant & Catering Australia have updated the presentation and made the data current for 2009, along with inserting a couple of video clips into the presentation. The updated presentation is now available free of charge for anyone who would like a copy. As the presentation now includes links to videos, we are no longer able to send it by email, but will instead mail a CD to those who would like a copy. Please send any requests through to karenj@restaurantcater.asn.au.
Discover Hospitality
Don’t forget www.discoverhospitality.com is now live, if you could spread the word that would be great. A flyer is also available for you to use to promote the website. You can download the flyer by clicking here.
Service NICS Consortium
You are probably aware that the Service Industry NICS is a consortium made up of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Australian Hotels Association, the National Retailers Association, the Australian Retailers Association and Restaurant & Catering Australia. To provide a more personal service the consortium has allocated the NICS to RICAs on a geographic basis, with the break up as follows. Queensland & NT RICAs are looked after by Jed Moore from the NRA SA & WA are looked after by Jim Syrmas from the AHA NSW & ACT are looked after by Karen Jack from R&CA
However, RICAs should feel free to contact any of the consortium members by clicking on their names above.
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