
Trends & Insights
Creating an exciting menu becomes a breeze when you incorporate Maggi products into your recipes. From bases and sauces to full entrées, start adding Maggi to your menu.
Creating an exciting menu becomes a breeze when you incorporate Maggi products into your recipes. From bases and sauces to full entrées, start adding Maggi to your menu.
South Africa has lifted a handful of regulations, helping businesses in their quest to keep themselves (and the economy) afloat. While this is a good thing on the business front, it can leave you, the employer, with concerns on how to navigate a healthy work culture in these “new”, uncertain times.
With marketing in the foodservice industry, it’s never a one-size-fits-all approach. Especially after a global pandemic. Not only will your marketing approach need to change post-pandemic, but your business will need to also consider the different generations. From Baby Boomers to Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z; all of these customers have different dining attitudes, habits and preferences.
Creating a menu that appeals to families, children and customers of different generations is a balancing act. However, one constant is that food trends follow lifestyle trends. In addition to introducing on-trend flavours to the menu, add innovative touches by tapping into lifestyle trends, tweak your service styles, and make menu changes that appeal to your audiences.
The latest global pandemic has reminded us about disadvantaged communities that struggle and fall deeper into poverty during uncertain times. At Nestlé, we care for our African farming communities – we work in unity to ensure our farmers prosper; even when times are tough.
Our coffee culture has shown rapid growth in Africa. This is no surprise, considering Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee. The Nestlé East and Southern Africa Region (ESAR) saw Africa's potential, which contributed to our footprint in various coffee-growing regions. We saw this as an opportunity to help communities, and with your help, we’ve made it possible for local farmers to improve their livelihoods
Consumer behaviour is constantly evolving due to unforeseen circumstances that are out of our control. As it stands, businesses are faced with difficult circumstances due to the current industry landscape. The question you need to ask yourself is; do you feel that your restaurant, café, bakery, or hotel could run better than it does now? Whatever the case, businesses need to adapt quickly.
In this article, we will list eight common problems that the foodservice industry is challenged with.
Here’s how you can develop strategies to overcome these challenges.
With the COVID-19 lockdown in full swing, businesses need to find ways to ensure longevity. And,although it may be challenging, use this uncertain time to reflect and build a resilient operation that isready for the future. Here’s how you can ensure your business survives and flourishes after apandemic.
In the last couple of years, we’ve been talking more about remote work as an emerging trend. While it was more popular with freelance workers, with a huge influx of ‘co-working spaces’ to accommodate the needs of remote working – corporate organisations have also caught on to this trend.
The culinary industry is forever evolving to mirror modern trends that are making waves at any given moment. At Nestlé Professional, we find it a vital and necessary task to ensure that we keep up and maintain relevance in our delivery of the needs of the industry.
Whether you’re only just starting your business or you’ve been running your operation for years, there’s one thing you need to know: your office needs a quality coffee machine. It may seem like an extra expense and something you could go without, especially if there’s a coffee shop around the corner or even in the building. But a quality coffee machine isn’t just another purchase to make with the company credit card, it’s an investment. And if you need some convincing, here are four reasons why.
Corporate giants and thriving business environments have one thing in common: coffee.
When you start a catering company, you do it for the love of food and the love of being involved in an event no one will ever forget. And you know that in order to do that, it’s going to take a lot of hard work, skilled staff and long hours. You may even want to put your own spin on a classic catering company and add a certain flair that clients wouldn’t be able to find anywhere else.
But first, of course, you’re going to need to know the basics of how to make your company a success. And that relies entirely on how you handle each event. So, to help you out, here is some advice on how to make the most of your catering business.
The history of coffee is definitely an interesting one. From the story of how the coffee bean fruit may have been discovered by a goat in Ethiopia to all the different coffee products available to us in 2018, there’s a lot to learn about this delicious drink we all know and love. Today, we’ll be discovering the evolution of how coffee has been prepared throughout history.