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About Restaurant & Catering

Restaurant & Catering (R&C) is the national association that leads and represents the interests of restaurants and catering businesses in Australia. The members of R&C nationally are the state associations, who represent individual restaurant and catering businesses. In any 12 month period, restaurant and catering members total 7,200, representing 70 per cent of overall industry turnover.

 Restaurant & Catering aims to:

• Encourage Australian dining consumers to eat out more often and spend more when they do
• Operate within the financial resources of the Association
• Run a profitable national awards event
• Undertake research to inform state association members, Governments and regulators of the current state of the industry
• Administer the RACES (Restaurant And Catering Evaluation Systems) so as to enable the operation of the Awards for Excellence program – run throughout Australia using more than 520 trained and anonymous judges, judging 2,200 plus restaurants and caterers annually, that results in 19 awards events (regional, state and national) with 11,000 attendees
• Work with Government and regulators to effect a regulatory environment that is consistent with the Association priorities
• Articulate agreed policy positions on behalf of the industry in such a way as to progress the Association’s priorities
• Foster funding arrangements that assist in progressing the Associations priorities in line with the State: National Agreement