Shanna Jacobsen | Oct 22, 2022
The Planner Guru highlights three food trends that are driving shifts in event catering best practice. Trend #1 Healthy Catering for different diets and allergies: From intermittent fasting and keto diets to coeliac disease, event planners need to...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jul 3, 2022
Organising and hosting an event is a costly and resource-intensive affair; during a time when budgets are much tighter, unnecessary expenditure isn’t an option. Join theplanner.guru as we navigate through what essentials and add-ons can be...
Shanna Jacobsen | May 20, 2022
Do event organisers understand attendees’ needs, wants and desires? Liz Lathan, CMP, CMO, and a co-founder of Haute Companies, took it upon herself to identify attendees’ pet peeves to create The Attendee Bill of Rights: A Guide to...
Shanna Jacobsen | May 8, 2022
theplanner.guru learns why micro events are an important strategy on the back of the Covid-19 pandemic. Events are an important driver in creating awareness around brands, people and initiatives. The reason for this is that they are designed around...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jul 21, 2020
Everyone in the events industry knows that a well-fed attendee is a happy attendee. So while venues prepare to reopen for business events of up to 50 people, the Food & Beverage divisions have been hard at work designing new menus and ways to...
Shanna Jacobsen | Mar 9, 2020
This article was issued by the Event Greening Forum, a non-profit organisation that promotes sustainability within the business events sector. Roughly one third of all food produced ends up as waste. As a result, of the 31 million tonnes of food we...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 8, 2020
“Do you want to prevent ‘presenteeism’ – being present, but lacking energy, focus, memory and productivity – in your meeting and conference attendees?” asks Mari Pronk, a registered dietitian and ADSA ( Association for Dietetics in South Africa)...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jan 30, 2020
Jackie Cameron, an award-winning chef and owner of Jackie Cameron School of Food & Wine in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, says that there are a lot of misconceptions about the hospitality industry and its opportunities for young chef graduates....
Shanna Jacobsen | Dec 11, 2019
Event catering is susceptible to trends, but this can be a good thing – as this peek of what to expect in 2020, both locally and internationally, proves!Event catering is susceptible to trends, but this can be a good thing – as this peek of what to...
Mpinane Senkhane | May 28, 2019
From Banting to Veganism – there are so many different types of dietary requirements out there – how on earth does one know what to cater for and where to draw the line when catering for large groups? There are two main streams of dietary...
Martin HIller | Dec 31, 2015
Choosing a catering company can be a difficult decision, as you need to accommodate a variety of dietary requirements and still make sure that the food is both delicious and presentable. Catering is probably the single most important aspect of your...
