ADVERTORIAL // Nestlé Professional
Save Our Locals Nestlé Professional is proud to partner with Save Our Locals to help the hospitality community through uncertain times and beyond.
IN RECENT WEEKS, most restaurants and
Save Our Locals’ meal kits make inspired
cafés have been forced to shut their doors,
results easy to recreate at home, with all
models, leaving many favourite local
ensure home cooks get results every time,
or significantly change their business
venues closed and thousands of talented
staff in the hospitality industry either stood
the hard work and prep done by chefs to in their own kitchen.
down or without a job.
Since lockdown began, Nielsen reports
a staggering 82 per cent of hospitality jobs
in time spent on cooking websites, with
The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports
have been lost since lockdown.
To help local businesses doing it tough,
Nestlé Professional is lending support to a new industry initiative, Save Our Locals. Save Our Locals is an online market
there has been a 71 per cent increase
young people spending 144 per cent more time following online recipes. The surge
in interest represents a great opportunity for businesses to service the demand for
Professional is ‘find a way’ and we are living that through the much-needed
income that every Save Our Locals meal kit order will bring to local businesses,” says
Nestlé Professional CEO Scott Stuckmann. “There is a whole ecosystem attached to
the hospitality industry and it’s heartening to think that together we can step up and
make a difference for our valued partners. We’re proud to support Save Our Locals
as our way of saying, ‘We are here for you and we always will be’.”
quality food created at home.
Through the delivery of ready-to-cook
an alternative income stream to keep the
profit Save Our Locals campaign, which
meal and a difference to the hospitality
supports restaurants by delivering fresh
bars, cafés and pubs in business despite
supporting local cafés and restaurants with lights on and staff employed. The initiative meal kits to home cooks, giving them the
opportunity to recreate restaurant-quality dishes at home.
The insight is what inspired the not-for-
endeavours to keep restaurants, bistros, the wider challenge presented by social distancing restrictions.
“One of our core values at Nestlé
meal kits, home cooks can make a great industry and their local community. ■ To register your venue, visit
saveourlocals.com.au/register
To order as a customer, visit
saveourlocals.com.au
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