Retail
News Briefs – 23/7/2016
Eagle
Boys Pizza Calls In Administrators
Pizza
is big business and the likes of Pizza Hut, Dominos, and Eagle Boys have
dominated the $3.5 billion industry in Australia. The competition is intense
and Eagle Boys has succumbed to the pressure announcing that it has called in
administrators. All franchised stores will trade as usual while administrators
hold talks with potential buyers.
Chinese
Tourists Spend Record Amounts In Australia
According
to Tourism Australia, Chinese tourists spent a record $8.9 billion in the year
up to March 2016. A recent study showed that Chinese tourists spend more per
head than tourists from UK and USA and they like to concentrate on quality
original products that have no connection with the prevalence of counterfeit
items in their home country.
3D
Printed Food
We
have written on this website before about the delicious possibility of using
chocolate as a printing medium for 3D printers and now you can buy printers
that use paste of any variety to create many different types of food. In fact,
according to the makers of one printer the application is as large as the
imagination of the chef.
One
Dutch company creates dishes by using
food pastes which are layered on plates to create geometric and intricate
designs, and are given fanciful names like Air Caviar, Fish and Chips,
Caesar’s Flower of Life, Mystic Prawns, Steak TARTRIS, Love Bites and 3D Boscana.