scholarly journals An executive chef’s insights into hospitality in New Zealand: Brent Martin

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Tracy Harkison ◽  
Brent Martin
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Family Values ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
The Public ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
The Family ◽  
To Come ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Family House

2020 was one of the most challenging years to date for the New Zealand hospitality industry. As part of a wider study, a series of interviews were conducted to gain insights into what New Zealand professionals faced through this challenging time with some of their philosophical and career overviews. In this second interview, conducted in November 2020, Tracy Harkison interviewed Brent Martin, executive chef at Park Hyatt Auckland. Questions asked ranged from his passion for hospitality and dealing with COVID-19 to his hopes for the future of hospitality in New Zealand. Tracy Harkison What do you love about working in hospitality? Brent Martin The biggest thing for me is the opportunity – the opportunities that hospitality has given me. I don’t think there is another career that could have given me these opportunities to travel, to live in different cultures, meet different people, and just experience the world. You adapt a lot more and you learn a lot more about your own personality and your own way to deal with things in different cultures. I think hospitality work is a way to broaden people’s lives. Tracy Are there unique aspects to the New Zealand hospitality industry? Brent We are an international brand and hopefully this brings a wealth of knowledge back to New Zealand, which we’re starting to see – not just in hotels but restaurants who have had several really well-known chefs coming back. So the uniqueness of New Zealand is that we have a clean slate and a blank canvas on which we can create these experiences. Tracy Why start a career in hospitality? Brent There are a couple of components to this, it’s the camaraderie and it’s the family values that people have. I’ve been in the industry 30 plus years and the friends that I’ve gained along the way are my friends for life. The time that you spend working in hospitality is sometimes time spent with your best friend. People that come into hospitality really learn about that. Once those borders open, we’re going to be inundated with hundreds of thousands of people coming to New Zealand, and this is going to be very much an ongoing process in New Zealand. New Zealand is struggling for hospitality people and it’s going to open up a lot of doors for people who may have different views of what hospitality is. Tracy When starting in the industry, what advice would you give? Brent You’ve got to come into the industry with an open mind. You need to have passion and you’ve got to understand the unsociable hours. But the rewards at the end of what can happen here are amazing. The reward of seeing people eating in your restaurant, eating your food, it is amazing. When somebody comes up to you and says, “That’s the best meal I’ve ever had”, it’s instant gratification, whereas a lot of people won’t be able to get that kind of gratification from a job. Tracy What has been your greatest leadership challenge? Brent The biggest challenge for me was opening a mega-resort in the Bahamas where I had to find 400 plus cooks/staff from a population of about 200,000. So, the biggest challenge for me was to find cooks who could actually cook. To open up this mega-resort with 26 different restaurants with different cuisines and different styles, there were days I thought I’d never get there, but I ended up with over 420 staff members by the time I left the property. Tracy The COVID 19 situation – what was your decision-making process? Brent The biggest thing for us was that we never wanted to lose an employee, and that was our commitment from day one: how do we keep every employee employed in this hotel throughout this pandemic? The team really focused on watching out for each other, helping each other and knowing what the end goal was. But we had to set a standard of what this hotel was going to be; the expectations of the owner, ourselves and obviously the public was the biggest hurdle that we had to really push. We have proper practices throughout the hotel – all the staff wear face masks; that is a corporate directive from our Hyatt Corporation. Tracy How would you change the New Zealand hospitality industry? Brent I wish that we had a lot more energy to be willing to service a guest right. We talk about hospitality in New Zealand and we’re very open – you’re a family house to guests, which is amazing. It’s a refinement of what hospitality could be in New Zealand that is needed. It’s the boundaries of how my service is… how involved am I with that person at a table; at the front desk, am I too over-powering, or am I attentive enough. So it’s just refining that level of service to really understand who that customer is, and the ability to read the situation that you’re in and have three or four talking points. The most important thing is, how do we start a conversation and how do we stop a conversation with a customer; it’s the hardest thing to do, but it’s important. Corresponding author Tracy Harkison can be contacted at: [email protected]

Misguided Ancients

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Kathleen Wellman
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Religious Right ◽  
Family Values ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Arguments ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Political Right

Although the ancient Greeks and Romans have long been appreciated as foundations for Western civilization, for these textbooks, the Greeks’ philosophy, gods, and immorality tar them as godless humanists. Nonetheless, the Greeks and the Romans allow these curricula to introduce several key social, political, and moral arguments. They assess whether ancient civilizations implemented the “family values” of the political right as it emerged in the 1970s. Thus the Greeks were commendable in excluding women from the public sphere and the Romans for their strong patriarchal families. But Rome fell when it failed to maintain family values. These textbooks disparage the Romans to downplay their influence on the American founding. Furthermore, the rise of Islam reveals the presence of Satan in the world. These curricula’s repudiation of the classical tradition reflects not only contemporary concerns of the religious right but also American anti-intellectualism.

scholarly journals 'Honour Killings' in Modern Societies: A Sociological Perspective

ICR Journal ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 532-535
Author(s):  
Alina Zvinkliene
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
Public Recognition ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Personal Feeling

The issues of ‘honour’ - and in particular honour-related crimes - in modern societies undisputedly need more public reflection and discussion, especially at the meeting points of different cultures. The ‘concept of honour and shame’ - although not the only factor - is very important for understanding the background of domestic violence. This applies also - although in no way exclusively - to those Muslim family structures that are based on particular cultural traditions. The division of honour into ‘true’ and ‘artificial’ honours indicates that honour can be used to legitimate the hierarchy between members of the family. From a sociological perspective, the minimalist definition refers to honour as a right to respect. This means that honour exists both subjectively and objectively. It exists subjectively as a personal feeling as being entitled to respect. However, it exists also objectively as a public recognition of the public value of the individual. Honour/dishonour-shame always has a form of publicity.

Between Two Worlds

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-345
Author(s):  
Mitra Das
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
The United States ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
The Family ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Different Cultures

This essay is a personal narrative of events depicting the challenges of migration when one is wedged between two distinct societies, living as an immigrant in the United States and still bound by the family values and norms of the native homeland. It gives a nuanced understanding, an inside look from the viewpoint of the storyteller who has experienced the events in real time and space, as these were effected by historical time, society, and culture. It is a detailed account highlighting the intersection of gender, family, ethnicity, and culture that affects the process of migration as immigrants traverse between opposing and different cultures. It is a prototype of an essential American story.

scholarly journals The 2Rs – Respect and Responsibility: The Case of Australian Muslim Girls

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-67
Author(s):  
Nahid Afrose Kabir
Keyword(s):  
Home Environment ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Bicultural Identity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Muslim Girls

The citizenship debate involves respect and responsibility. In this paper I discuss the case of Australian Muslims girls who in their home environment respect the family values and carry out certain responsibilities assigned to them. In the wider society, they attend schools, do part-time jobs and obey the values of the institutions. However, I question in this paper, whether the family and the wider society are fulfilling their responsibility towards these girls. I discuss the interview responses of 39 Muslim girls (15-18 years) living in Sydney and Perth. I examine pertinent cases within the framework of relevant academic literature, and argue within the social, religious and cultural context. The issues within the family domain are inter-twined within Islamic religious-cultural arguments, whereas the issues in the public domain are argued on cultural conflict between the Muslims and the wider society. With both arguments I show how some Muslim girls negotiate their identity, and suggest their bicultural identity is assisting them to keep a positive attitude in their everyday life.

scholarly journals Give Us A Chance: The Employment Experiences of New Settlers From East Asia

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsie S. Ho ◽  
Jacqueline M. Lidgard
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Business Investment ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
The Family ◽  
Investment Opportunities ◽  
Government Planning ◽  
To Come ◽  
Set Up

Our research on new settlers from Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea has revealed a general unhappiness with the lack of government planning and preparation to meet the needs of migrants who had been actively encouraged to come to New Zealand to help establish links with Asia. Over half had no paid employment in New Zealand. Among those who were currently employed, less than half had been able to obtain jobs related to their previous work experience and skills. Those who wished to do business were dissatisfied with the lack of information about business investment opportunities and the tax system. When it proved impossible to find appropriate employment or set up business in New Zealand in an effort to remain self-reliant, some immigrants chose to leave the family in New Zealand and return to work in their country of origin.

scholarly journals STRATEGI PEMASARAN YANG DILAKUKAN RESTAURANT BLACK CANYON COFFEE DI PLAZA TUNJUNGAN III SURABAYA DALAM MEMASARKAN PRODUKNYA

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Achmad Daengs GS ◽  
Dheenaz Malvinas Ticha ◽  
Moch Rizaldy Rahmansyah
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Food Quality ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Business Relationship ◽  
Coffee Shop ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
To Come

To winning the competition, the factors of customer satisfaction are very important things, because of that, the marketers are always expected to hold a renewal and introduction of products to the consumer who wants to be reached to retain the customers. Black Canyon Coffee restaurants and also a coffee shop of franchise concept from Thailand that located at Tunjungan Plaza 3 floors 4 and at Surabaya Town Square also have to do a marketing strategy to marketing their products. The conclusion of this research, consumers of Black Canyon Coffee restaurants are: (1) men who aged of 21-35 years; (2) consumers that obtain information from the friend by 47%, 37% are from the business relationship, 13% are from the family; (3) consumers desires to come again to the Black Canyon Coffee restaurant as much as 44% are said maybe, and 37% are said yes. The marketing strategy that undertaken by Black Canyon Coffee restaurant is to increasing presentation speed and food quality, increasing cleanliness of restaurant, hospitality and neatness of staffs’ appearance. The increasing of promotion both through of printing and electronic media, or by a billboard so that its presences are more to be known by the public.

scholarly journals The Power of Penal Populism: Public Influences on Penal and Sentencing Policy from 1999 to 2008

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Tess Bartlett
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Penal Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sentencing Policy ◽  
To Come

<p>This thesis explains the rise and power of penal populism in contemporary New Zealand society. It argues that the rise of penal populism can be attributed to social, economic and political changes that have taken place in New Zealand since the postwar years. These changes undermined the prevailing penalwelfare logic that had dominated policymaking in this area since 1945. It examines the way in which 'the public' became more involved in the administration of penal policy from 1999 to 2008. The credibility given to a law and order referendum in 1999, which drew attention to crime victims and 'tough on crime' discourse, exemplified their new role. In its aftermath, greater influence was given to the public and groups speaking on its behalf. The referendum also influenced political discourse in New Zealand, with politicians increasingly using 'tough on crime' policies in election campaigns as it was believed that this was what 'the public' wanted when it came to criminal justice issues. As part of these developments, the thesis examines the rise of the Sensible Sentencing Trust, a unique law and order pressure group that advocates for victims' rights and the harsh treatment of offenders. The Trust became an increasingly authoritative voice in both the public and political arena, as public sentiments came to overrule expert knowledge in the administration of penal policy. Ultimately, it argues that the power of penal populism is so strong in New Zealand that attempts to resist it are likely to come to little, unless these forces that brought it to prominence can be addressed and negated. To date, this has not happened.</p>

The Years: Moment of Transition

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pam Morris
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Public Provision ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private House ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Common ◽  
Private Domain ◽  
Family House

In The Years, Woolf foregrounds the private house as materialised geography of multiple force fields of change and conservatism. The house constitutes the interface between the biological necessities of embodied creatures and the regulatory, reiterative codes of gender and class that produce identity. Woolf attends to a moment in the 1930s when large scale public provision of housing and the necessary infrastructure of utilities extended the public terrain into what had previously been the private domain. The potential convergence of class values and life style, brought about by extension of plumbing and wiring, however, came into conflict with demand for home-owning consumerism and privacy. Woolf brings into visibility and audibility the common life of London streets and the shared realm of the physical world in opposition to the regulated individualism sheltered in the family house.

Popularizing and Promoting Nene Hatun as an Iconic Turkish Mother in Early Cold War Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-63
Author(s):  
Gözde Emen-Gökatalay
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Family Roles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Turkish Mothers

Abstract This article traces Nene Hatun’s popularity and legacy for women’s image in Turkey. The rediscovery of Nene Hatun and the political construction of her public image during the rule of the Democratic Party (DP), as an icon of anticommunist Turkish mothers, not only maps out the gendered effects of intensified anticommunist policies in Turkey in the period under consideration but also showcases the immediate consequences of the growing conservative discourses and gender anxieties on the public images and roles of women. Exemplified by Nene Hatun’s sudden popularity, the 1950s witnessed a change in the references to motherhood in the discourses of politicians and other public figures. Framing the family roles of women as a question of security, such discourses referred to mothers as the protectors of family values against communist threats, which assigned further domestic duties to women in Turkey, already living in a strongly patriarchal society.

Urban or Family-Friendly? The Presentation of Czech Shopping Centers as Family-Friendly Spaces

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Pospěch
Keyword(s):  
Family Values ◽  
General Level ◽  
Shopping Centers ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Realm ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Structural Category

This article presents a study of the self-presentation of shopping centers in the Czech Republic as “family-friendly” spaces. The notion of family-friendliness is analyzed both as a structural category, referring to the structure of the stereotypical normal family and to its respective members, and as a cultural representation, referring to “family values,” which Czech malls invoke in their self-presentation. It is argued that the presentation of a “space for the whole family” covers only the persistent stereotype of female-led economic consumption. The family values of safety and comfort distinguish shopping centers negatively from the city centers. They also strongly refer to the country’s past by invoking the image of a family promenade. On a more general level, the family appeal thrives on the phenomenon of postsocialist privatism and on the turning away from the public sphere in favor of the private realm of the family.

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