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Originally from Montana USA, Lyle Barker worked in the family Baking business and developed a passion for cooking with particular expertise in desserts and baking. His formal qualifications came from his apprenticeship with Don Doig, a disciple of Julia Childs.

Moving to Australia in 1988 Lyle worked in numerous restaurants in Byron Bay. He has successfully achieved a Diploma of Marketing from APM Training Institute in Sydney NSW before moving to Perth.

Lyle comes to us with an expansive background including being a Head Chef, Food and Beverage Manager, Purchasing Officer, Senior Sales Executive as well as Marketing Manager for a Software Development Company.

One of Lyle’s major areas of expertise is in menu and food costing and he has been instrumental in reducing food costs to record levels in establishments such as the Inglewood Hotel and Aaron’s Hotel in Perth, Western Australia.

Lyle is a past Chef Presenter for the Cooking segment on Tele Latina Access 31 TV. He offers a great deal to our training team including Gluten Free Menu design and procedures.

Lyle is passionate about the “Greening of Restaurants” and is our in-house specialist on environmental procedures.

Stuart Skeggs-Recruitment consultant Regional WA
Stuart Skeggs has been involved in the hospitality and tourism industry for over fifteen years. He is highly experienced in the management of hotels and resorts, with experience extending across all disciplines within the hospitality industry. He possesses a thorough understanding of the challenges faced by operators of hospitality businesses today, particularly in regional areas. He started in the industry when he owned and managed a café on Broadway in Nedlands. Selling the café after four years, Stuart then did a country stint, as publican of the Commercial Club Hotel in Mt Magnet. Read the rest of this entry »

Tim is an experienced hotel professional with over 30 years of industry experience, including more than 13 as a General Manager.
He graduated from the University of Wales, University College Cardiff, with an honours degree in Hotel, Catering & Institutional Management.

His early career was based mostly in large hotels in London with positions in a number of major hotel chains including Trust House Forte, Thistle, & Metropole Hotels.In 1991 he emigrated to Australia & was part of the pre-opening team for the now Holiday Inn Darling Harbour Sydney, and further progressed to GM positions in Brisbane & Perth.His extensive experience & philosophies as a GM will ensure that the best possible match is found delivering satisfaction to both client & candidate alike.

Profile Marlene McGann

With a career spanning almost three decades, Marlene has explored most aspects of the Hospitality industry from running catering operations while studying Catering & Hotel Management to involvement in the mining industry boom of the early 80’s right through to Resort Management at some of Australia’s major tourist destinations.

Experienced in both back and front of house, Marlene’s passion for people and travel led her to work in the industry ranging from three to five star properties in Front Office, Restaurants, the great Aussie Pub, Events and Functions Coordination, remote location operations and so much more, while enjoying all that this great country of Australia has to offer.

In more recent years Marlene has worked with Government bodies and Training Providers delivering specialist training and advisory services to the private sector in the capacity of Employment & Training Consultant for Albany Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Inc) and Great Southern Regional College of TAFE.

With a vast range of training and facilitation experience extending into personal development, career consultation and conflict resolution, Marlene has enjoyed roles including Recruitment Consultancy and Human Resources Coordination while successfully developing strategies for staff acquisition and retention in the extremely volatile Western Australian market.

Utilizing a wealth of life experience and maturity of spirit, Marlene brings to the workplace a deep understanding of issues which are common and has the keen ability to work one-on-one and with groups to achieve the harmonious balance so necessary to build that team we all aspire to have working with us.

Marlene holds qualifications in Certificate IV in Assessment & Workplace Training and a Certificate IV in Small Business Management and brings to our team over 15 years of training knowledge and experience along with an extensive network of interested parties.

Perth, Australia, April 2- 2008 Hospitality Business Group launched its new website for job seekers and employers today.

www.hospitalityjobsforu.com provides a new platform for worldwide recruitment and job placements.

Director of Hospitality
Category: Full-time
Our client is the leading hospitality consulting firm, Dubai based and looking for a Director of Hospitality. This newly created position is resp…

Technical Director with architectural background
Category: Full-time
HospitalityBiz is a Perth based Executive Search and Recruitment firm and an established leader in the recruitment of Senior Appointments and top-leve…

Executive Chef - China
Category: Full-time
Our client combines the best of European hospitality and Chinese tradition. The hotel has in access of 600 rooms and multi food and beverage outlets i…

“We believe we have certainly succeeded,” said Rory Cole-Bowen, Founder and Managing Director of Hospitality Business Group, the owner and operator of the website. “now, we intend to capture the world wide market through this website providing a window of opportunity to jobseekers and employers”.

The new website is designed to include features, which will enable jobseekers to search for jobs and employers to find the candidate that suits their requirements, by subscribing to the site.
The website provides a dynamic combination of available candidates and modern IT technology to simplify and encourage worldwide employment opportunities.

Today internet based recruitment is the most powerful and effective medium for recruitment and www.hospitalityjobsforu.com offers its clients top quality candidates quickly and at competitive rates.

Its strength is that the website was created by and for hospitality professionals and is extremely user friendly for both employers and job seekers.
There are a number of other features including the choice between standard and premium advertisements,
anonymous job search, Candidate data search, email job alerts, email resume alerts, secure paypal payments and advertising opportunities.

www.hospitalityjobsforu.com offers a service for all levels of hospitality professionals across 5 continents.

Perth: January 7, 2008 — Rory Cole-Bowen, Founder and Managing Director of Hospitalitybiz, the Perth based leader in Executive Search and Recruitment is pleased to announce the signing of their Agreement of Affiliation with the Singapore based Focus Hospitality Inc.

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While China offers unlimited opportunities for would be franchisors, it also poses significant hurdles. And few challenges come bigger then culture.
Unfortunately, the subject of cultural differences is often glossed over by the investors.
Is there a cultural barrier to cross when establishing a franchise in China? Read the rest of this entry »

In recent years, an increasing number of people have altered their diet for health and ethical reasons. As we have become more aware of the food we eat and the effects the different products and produce have on our long-term health, we have started to adjust our eating habits accordingly.  Read the rest of this entry »

 Karl joined the hospitalitybiz team in September. An experienced senior executive with considerable in-depth knowledge of the Hospitality industry in both small and large companies, working at both board and senior management level.  Karl has an impressive record of accomplishment, with the demonstrated ability to effectively lead people to achieve organizational goals. Read the rest of this entry »