Cafes

Australia Post opens post office with on-site cafe

Australia Post has announced it will start serving customers barista-made coffee as well as handling their mail after opening a new concept store in regional New South Wales. Read More

Masks finally off for Victorian hospitality staff

The Victorian Government has announced face masks and check-ins using the Service Victoria app are longer required for hospitality patrons and staff.
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Cafés doing social good during COVID-19 lockdowns

Cafés across Australia, particularly in Victoria and New South Wales, may be facing numerous challenges during COVID-19 lockdowns, but many are still finding ways of doing social good for their communities.
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The great outdoors: Café culture in a COVID summer

BeanScene looks at how different Australia’s café culture could look heading into summer with a renewed focus on outdoor dining.
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ATO releases tax time toolkit to help small businesses

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has released a tax time toolkit designed to help small businesses and their tax advisers. The toolkit packages up a series of easy-to-understand fact sheets on topics that small businesses need to know this tax time, especially given the tax implications of COVID-19.
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UK Coffee Week returns to raise funds for Project Waterfall

UK Coffee Week is returning from 29 April to 5 May with the intent to raise money for clean water, sanitation, and education to coffee growing communities.
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BioPak teams up with Perth cafés to launch coffee cup composting service

Perth cafés can avoid sending their takeaway coffee cups to landfill with the launch of BioPak’s national composting service. Under the service, customers will be able to dispose of used BioPak coffee cups and compostable takeaway food packaging in specially designed collection bins placed at local cafés or workplaces in Western Australia. The special compost bins will be collected weekly and sent them to commercial facilities to be composted. In eight weeks, the biodegradable products will be turned into nutritious soil compost for gardens or farms.
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Australian roasters urged to support Fairtrade Fortnight

Australian coffee roasters are encouraged to support Fairtrade Fortnight, an annual campaign to increase awareness of Fairtrade products. From 4 to 17 August, roasters such as Grinders, Bean Ground & Drunk and Mocopan Coffee, are joining together to amplify the Fairtrade message and encourage consumers to “protest with their purchases”. By spreading the message in their cafés, participating roasters are helping to improve the livelihoods of thriving communities through trade.
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