Catering Services

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The Accommodation and Food sector is made up of businesses in pubs, cafes and restaurants, takeaway food, juice bars, catering services, hotels, motels, caravan parks and clubs.

The sector includes 94,300 organisations, and employs 872,800 people.

Accommodation and Food is a large and growing industry with 108,400 new jobs added over the past five years.

The sector is very competitive and growth has been influenced by the foodie culture promoted on television and in social media. There are very few direct technology threats to jobs in Cafes and Restaurants, Hotels, Motels, Pubs and Clubs.

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Facts & Figures

Employment: 872,800
Sector Opportunity & Threat

Organisations: 94,300 Employing 56% Self-employed 44%
Remuneration: Avg Salary $29,224 Avg weekly $562
 

Opportunity

The catering industry is growing supported by a wide variety of software, automation and technology tools.

Stock management systems are useful in controlling waste, tracking menu choices and margins. And social media is an important engagement tool for customer engagement and finding staff.

Threat

Threats to the sector are largely challenges to different aspects of business operations – in online search, booking, ordering and delivery. 

Food home delivery has moved into the open market with Uber Eats, Deliveroo and other outsourced delivery services increasing market reach for restaurants, takeaway food services and caterers.

Catering for larger organisations such as airlines, government and hospitals is increasingly automated, using robots and automated systems for cooking, cleaning, dishwashing and even food delivery.

 

Disruptive influences or technologies

Business cases

  • Robots and the Catering & Food Service Industry

    The robots in the Fiona Stanley hospital in WA, can deliver over 2,000 meals a day.

    Robots are beginning to take up jobs in the catering and food industries in hospitals and larger catering companies. Food safety and automated delivery are offering assurances of safety and efficiency that are hard to compete with.

    The robots in the Fiona Stanley hospital in WA, can deliver over 2,000 meals a day, interrogate the hospital systems by wi-fi and program a trolley to the visit the right floor and deliver food across the campus. Labour is one of the biggest costs, and generating savings through the use of robotics is a powerful proposition.

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