The Restaurant Association of New Zealand began life in 1972 as the Restaurant and Cabaret Association with a membership of 20 and a part-time secretariat.
Today, over 36 years on, we have a membership spread throughout New Zealand that represents every facet of the
restaurant and hospitality industry, with 13 regional branches, and a National Office with full-time staff, housed in a building owned by our Education Trust.
Our industry is alive and vibrant, full of interesting, passionate, talented, entrepreneurial people, with an ever expanding range of venues and cuisine styles.
If industry success depended only upon flair and passion for hospitality, life would be really simple. Unfortunately there is a raft of complex and onerous business rules and regulations with which compliance is essential if we are to prosper.
The Association offers members a wide range of business tools and savings plans, and a free, 0800 help line via which advice on many issues can be obtained. This website provides an outline of the extent of those tools and savings and describes the many and varied activities we undertake for the benefit of our members and the industry at large.
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