HOSPITALITY GURU
The Hospitality Guru is a unique & entertaining “online” Training & Teaching Product specifically designed for anyone interested in Food, Wine & The Hospitality Industry.
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Who is Anna?
“I am a Fun Loving, Adventure Seeking, Enthusiastic, Super Positive Aussie Gal & creator of The Hospitality Guru! I’m a Chef, a Teacher, Trainer, Functions, Wedding & Event Architect; General Manager & all round Nice Girl who loves nothing more than great food paired with wonderful wines & beers.”
Chef Anna
My chefing career started at the Australian National Convention Centre where I trained as an apprentice & fell in love with function work. The thrill of running multiple functions at the same time & working in big teams to bring everything in on time is, without a doubt a bit of a buzz!
Working with a huge team of blokie Chefs who managed to describe most mouth watering, taste tantalizing and exquisite dishes prefixed by a four-letter word or two was a little challenging I’ll admit for this little Lady Chef, but loads of fun & an experience I’m so glad I’ve had.
“Good Bye Chefy-Shoes & Hello Jimmy Choo”
After almost a decade in the kitchen & a bit more study, I packed away my cheffies & followed the sweet lure of Hotel & Event Management. Cooking professionally was a great experience & it certainly opened the door to lots of fun working holidays abroad but I can’t begin to tell you how wonderful it was to dress like a girl again & my love affair with hospitality & function work cranked up to the next level.
Now, if I’m not spending time with clients designing their dream wedding or functions, you’ll find me hanging out with the guys in the kitchen creating menus or out & about interviewing ‘behind the scenes’ stories for The Hospitality Guru.
What’s The Hospitality Guru all about?
The H.G. started out almost by accident when a lot of my apprentice chefs suffered from the wise, wonderful & political decisions to cut a Chefs ‘apprenticeship’ period in half in an effort to meet the skill demand in our industry. I started to share a lot of my own training notes & made a few videos for my guys to help them with their techniques & terminology. I mean seriously, who wants a trained Chef in the kitchen who has no idea what a Mirepoix or a Beurre Noisette is, right?
Too many really bright & enthusiastic young Chefs were getting browned off & were loosing their enthusiasm because even though they’d studied hard & did their best, they simply didn’t have enough technical information, or a understanding of how commercial kitchens operated & they needed help.
Over time, my notes became a handout & things have grown, where today The Hospitality Guru ‘Back to Basics’ hub page series is available free of charge on the internet. I’m now supported by a growing team of chefs who share their expertise on the HG training videos; a professional video production company & a marketing guru, who all work behind the scenes & are helping me create training products for chefs & other hospitality related products.
