2022 Pd Roadshow

Recordings and resources

A technology-focused session covering:

  • Hospitality systems and technologies to streamline processes
  • Improving efficiency to increase profitability
  • Looking at the future of your business through an innovative lens
  • Strategies to minimize staff turnover and improve retention
  • Improving POS and menu systems

A leadership-focused session covering:

  • Setting up for success – getting the best value from training and coaching
  • The 4 stages of team development – how the role of a leader and coach adapts at each stage
  • Leadership communication and personality styles
  • Retention and motivation strategies
  • Tips and tricks for staff engagement    


Marg Main

Turning Tables

Marg Main is the founder of Turning Tables, a hospitality training and coaching business focused on helping business owners nationwide to retain, develop and grow their teams. Marg is an industry professional with over 30 years of experience, in a mixture of roles and venues across the hospitality sector. She remains passionate about utilising her experience to inspire, interest and educate hospitality staff and managers across NZ. Marg is a creative and engaging facilitator, who brings a fabulous sense of humour and fun to her sessions.

Adrian Wills

Trickle & beer Spot

Adrian Wills is the Founder of Trickle, New Zealand’s leading hospitality insights platform. Hospitality and technology go hand in hand for Adrian. He has taken 15 years of experience in the start-up sector, specialising in point of sale, and developed a platform to enable the hospitality sector to make data-driven decisions from aggregated on-premise data. A seasoned hospitality entrepreneur, Adrian is also one of the owners of well-known and loved The Beer Spot, with five locations across Auckland, all pouring New Zealand’s independent beer.

“It’s a real privilege to spend time with the people who create the NZ hospitality experience and I love the stories and interactions which happen in the training sessions. Never boring that is for sure!” – Marg Main

“I’m stoked to have been asked by Restaurant Association to share some of the things I’ve learned in combining hospitality and technology. It’s always great to spend time with the people that are serving up some of NZs finest food and beverages and be able to help them with the tools they need to continue to do what they love doing”

Brought to you by the Restaurant Association with support from HTT