Brougham Arms co-owners Scott and Luke

Brougham Arm co-owners Scott and Luke Macumber on winning the gastronomy award at the Bendigo Business Excellence Awards.

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00:00 Yeah, well look, we're obviously very chuffed to win the award.

00:05 Recognition in hospitality is not overly prominent and any awards that we receive in regards

00:13 to the job that we're doing is just fantastic.

00:15 Well, we're really privileged to have our head chef, Raghi.

00:20 We basically give him a free reign of everything in the kitchen to really spread his wings

00:27 and try any sort of dishes that he likes.

00:32 We're 100% to give anything a go.

00:35 And throughout the whole COVID period, it's been a really tough period for all hospitality

00:38 venues.

00:40 Obviously staff's been an issue.

00:41 COVID, for some reason, has got rid of all the chefs.

00:45 And look, the work that our chefs have done over the past three years has just been absolutely

00:51 enormous.

00:52 And a lot of people that come into your venue sort of don't realise the work that goes on

00:56 behind the scenes.

00:57 It's a mountain of work that they do do.

01:00 And for us to put everything on the plate when people do walk through the doors is a

01:04 huge credit to them and the staff that we've got here working.

01:08 Yeah, we've grown up in the pub industry.

01:11 I was five when we first got into the Newmarket Hotel, actually.

01:17 And that was mum and dad's first venture into the hotel industry.

01:22 And that was in 1980.

01:24 So we've been in and out of different pubs for the last 45 years, I guess.

01:32 And yeah, we've really loved it.

01:35 And we're generational kids going into the industry as well, I guess.

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