Catering for a meeting or convention can be a tricky thing when it comes to catering just the right amount - and put your hand up if you have been to a meeting or convention and have wondered about food waste. Here's just one area we've identified where Great2Go containers can help us reduce food waste around the region. Our feedback so far: everyone says - brilliant solution! If you are a caterer or venue that hosts meeting and are interested in joining our Great2Go campaign you can register your interest at www.cityofgastronomy.com.au
Great2Go welcomes the Verge Hotel!
The Verge has identified a great opportunity to reduce food waste through corporate meetings and events, where catering leftovers can sometimes be a problem. Instead of quality food heading for landfill, guests and attendees can now take leftovers home in GNT's 100% worm-friendly, home-compostable Great2Go containers. At GNT we are excited to have the Verge leading the way and helping us explore smarter solutions for the hospitality sector across Northern Tasmania. General Manager Niel Mason put it this way “It’s just part of our obligation to reduce food waste - it’s simply the right thing to do.” We so agree. Thank you Niel! With the support of Circular North and funding from the Tasmanian Waste and Resource Recovery Board, and AbelPakk providing the containers at cost, the trial will determine whether Northern Tasmania could move towards region-wide low-waste solutions for food and plastic waste in our hospitality sector. We will be featuring more venues over the next few weeks and months - so watch this space! If you own/manage a restaurant, pub, cafe or catering business and are interested in joining the trial, please go to: https://www.cityofgastronomy.com.au/great2go-registration and fill in your details. We'll provide you with everything you need: all you have to do is participate in our survey exploring opportunities to reduce our waste. The results + every Great2Go container will help us unlock stage 2 funding...
Great2Go welcomes Team Timbre!
Timbre and chef-owner Matt Adams as the latest venue to join Gastronomy Northern Tasmania's Great2Go campaign. Timbre are local legends when it comes to sustainable hospitality. It's woven into the way they source, cook and serve their food. By joining Great2Go, they're helping us explore practical ways to reduce both food waste and single-use plastic waste across Northern Tasmania's hospitality sector. For customers who are finished-but not finished Great2Go encourages them to take their unfinished meals home in 100% home-compostable containers Every container used, every conversation started, and every piece of data collected through this trial helps build the case for a larger regional rollout. A big thank you to Matt and the Timbre team!
Golden Brumby is Great2Go!
Golden Brumby have joined us to explore ways we can reduce food and plastic waste wherever possible in our hospitality sector. We know that providing hot tasty take-aways in containers that do not leak or spill can be difficult but Susie and George have signed up to join us in meeting the challenge! If you are a Northern Tasmanian venue interested in joining us go to https://www.cityofgastronomy.com.au/great2go-registration and fill in your details. We'll provide you with everything you need: all you have to do is participate in our survey exploring opportunities to reduce our waste. The results + every Great2Go container will help us unlock stage 2 funding...
Great2Go seen at FermentHQ!
GNT Committee member and Chair of Agricultured Caroline Brown with John Ranicar from Forager Food Co holding one of our the Great2Go containers that we are providing to restaurants, pubs, cafes and caterers. For more info or to register go to: www.cityofgastronomy.com.au
No, 'shrub' is not a plant!
If you think a shrub is a plant you're not alone. It's actually also a fruit-based fermented beverage with a long history. But FermentHQs first new product 2nd Press LEMON SHRUB by Petrichor Pantry is now in the final stages of production awaiting canning, with the cans due to arrive in the next few weeks. Pictured: Antoine from Petrichor Pantry and guest apple cider vinegar guru Michael in the early fermentation stages... so stay posted for the launch!
FermentHQ in the gubernatorial spotlight...
With well over 130 expressions of interest from makersand producers around the state and further afield, FermentHQ has generated enormous interest. Recently FermentHQ welcomed Her Excellency the Honourable Barbara Baker AC, Governor of Tasmania. During her visit, she met the teams behind Petrichor Pantry and Artisa, two of the first six makers to call the FermentHQ home.
We're looking at how we can reduce food and plastic waste in our hospitality sector.
At its heart, a genuine food culture
is an affinity between people and the land
that feeds them.
Barbara Kingsolver
Gastronomy Northern Tasmania
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge and pay respect to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people as the traditional and original owners, and continuing custodians of this land on which we gather today and acknowledge Elders – past and present.
