Joris Brabants

I am a passionate foodie and I write about operational excellence in hospitality.

Nutri-Score – A Simple Science-Based Nutritional Value Labelling System for the Food Industry

As consumers increasingly demand to know the nutritional value of what they eat and drink, European food production companies and…

1 month ago

How to Calculate Food Cost? Formulas for Chefs and F&B managers

Calculate food cost and boost profit; it is the first lesson anyone working in the restaurant business learns.  And rightly…

3 months ago

Calorie Labelling Legislation UK — Everything Restaurant Operators Should Know

From 6th April 2022, certain food businesses in England have to display the calorie content of the food they sell. …

2 years ago

Hospitality tech scale-up Apicbase raises €4M

ANTWERP/ AMSTERDAM, 19 May 2021 – Apicbase, the international hospitality tech scale-up, announces it raised 4 million euros in a…

3 years ago

StoreKit partners with world-leading F&B management platform Apicbase

StoreKit is the first UK reseller to earn a certification for the recently launched Apicbase reseller programme. StoreKit's hospitality customers…

4 years ago

Restaurant Food Waste Management — How Smart Operators Drive Down Food Waste & Costs

According to a ReFED report from 2018, in the US, the foodservice industry generates around 11.4 million tonnes of restaurant…

4 years ago

5 Essential Restaurant Technologies to Future-Proof Your Business

Never before has technology played such an important role in the running of a restaurant business. Whether you operate a…

4 years ago

5 Restaurant Inventory Best Practices That Will Help You Run A Successful Operation

Start running a successful and profitable operation by adopting some well-known (and some top-secret) restaurant inventory best practices. They might…

4 years ago

Cocktail shaking robots in a bionic street food bar

ICE+FRIES, a new fast-casual concept bar in the heart of Reykjavik, the capital city of Iceland, opened this March and…

4 years ago