• New Year's Resolutions

    Welcome to the New Financial Year! I'm making an effort to reinvigorate this blog and post regularly after more than a year without writing, so I hope this will be the first of weekly or at least fortnightly posts. What are your New (Financial) Year's Resolutions for your Restaurant or Café? If you were to do only one thing I'd recommend collecting and recording data, data and more data. Not just enough data to ...
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  • Doom, Gloom, and Talk Back Radio

    If you opened a newspaper or turned on talk back radio this week you would have read or heard lots of discussion about the state of the restaurant industry in Sydney, and it's not looking good at the top end. Bilson's, The Berowra Waters Inn, Cotton Duck, Milsons, Bird Cow Fish and others have closed, and other fine dining restaurants are struggling, with Justin North's group in voluntary administration. Many...
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  • Me

    About Tom Bodger

    Before starting The Restaurant Man Pty Limited, Tom was a Director at Big Four professional services firm Deloitte.  His career started in London at Deloitte & Touche in 1999 where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2002.  In 2003 he transferred to Deloitte Sydney and has lived in Sydney ever since. With a love of good food and eating out since before he could remember, he left the corporate world and t...
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  • Coffee Trends

    Unless you're at a roadhouse in the middle of the Outback, and to be honest even there, you can bet that the coffee served will be of Italian extraction. Cappuccino, Cafe Latte, and their Australianised sibling the Flat White are standards in most cafés throughout Australia. We've taken Italian coffee and made it our own, dispensing with the stuffy "No cappuccino after 10am" rules of the original, and even exporting ...
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Making a success of Restaurants & Cafés

According to a recent Restaurant & Catering survey, 63% of food service businesses in NSW employing 10 staff or fewer (the majority of restaurants and cafés) generate less than 2% net profit, and a significant number fail in their first year of operation.

Combining a passion for the hospitality industry with a thorough knowledge of finance and best business practices this site aims to help address these statistics.

Consulting Services

Please note that I am not currently taking on new consulting work. I am working full time on some exciting projects, both in the Restaurant & Café industry and outside it, and I don’t have the time right now to take on new consulting clients. However I hope you find the blog useful and interesting.

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