How to Grow your hospitality business - A guide for owners and managers (3rd)

Business is booming in the hospitality world, with new concepts popping up all over the country and customers lining up to savour an ever-changing array of foods. Celia Hay’s How to grow your hospitality business, a guide for owners and managers (ed 3rd) is the essential guide for people who dream of setting up their own café, bar, food truck, restaurant or catering business. Celia discusses the importance of the initial research to identifying a good location and concept and provides lists of costs to help prepare a budget. She offers tips about social media and how to market the business as well as how to train and build an effective and professional team. In creating this third edition, Celia Hay has drawn on her extensive experience in hospitality, which has included growing a number of diverse and successful businesses.

New Zealand Wine Guide

The New Zealand Wine Guide is a concise and accessible reference for hospitality staff, wine retailers and their staff, and hospitality and catering educators and students wishing to discover the keys to New Zealand’s distinctive world of wine. It is an encompassing succinct and practical introduction to New Zealand’s major wine regions, its leading grape varieties and internationally acclaimed wine styles. Never far from the sea, New Zealand’s long warm summers and cool nights provide a unique environment for growing grapes. New Zealand white wines are often described as having a “brightness of fruit” with refreshing acidity, especially evident in Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling and the newly fashionable varieties such as Albarino and Gruner Veltliner. Its red wines, notably Pinot Noir, are also world-renowned.

New Zealand Wine Guide (2nd Edition)

Celia Hay, Founder and director of the New Zealand School of Food and Wine and well-respected chef and wine educator, has written the second edition of the New Zealand Wine Guide.  It provides the new textbook for NZQA wine unit standards and the Certificate in New Zealand Wine Micro-credential as well as an up to date resource for those who just like to drink wine.

The spectacular growth of New Zealand's wine industry has attracted worldwide attention. Never far from the sea, New Zealand's long warm summers with cool nights provide a unique environment for growing grapes. Wine lovers, captivated by the brightness of fruit aromas displayed in each glass of New Zealand wine, are eager to learn more about the grape varieties and the wine regions where they come from. 

Celia Hay, Director of the New Zealand School of Food and Wine and well-respected wine education, explains in detail about New Zealand's wine regions, significant grape varieties, and wines produced.

A selection of local maps, explanations of vine growing, and winemaking processes, illustrated with helpful photographs and diagrams, makes this book an invaluable resource. Also included are extensive recommendations of wines to taste that express the different styles of winemaking and their regional character.

Kevin Judd's breath taking photographs dramatically illustrate vineyard life in these beautiful winegrowing regions of New Zealand. This revised 2nd edition of the New Zealand Wine Guide is a concise and accessible guide of people wishing to discover New Zealand's rich and distinctive world of wine.

“More than just a wine guide - There’s a useful and enlightening section on viticulture, a wine drinker’s guide to major (and many minor) grape varieties, a guide to winemaking and even a no-nonsense and very lucid section on evaluating wine plus a history of wine and hospitality in New Zealand” - Highly Recommended by Bob Campbell MW.

Celia Hay holds the Wine and Spirit Trust WSET Diploma of Wine and a Master of Education (distinction) from the University of Canterbury. She has also written How to grow your hospitality business, a guide for owners and managers (2000,2006, 2017)