Peter Arnold Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

ChefSPEC represents as agents to the Australian F&B industry, a range of established and premium commercial equipment brands from Phoeniks, B&S Commercial Kitchens, Cyberchill, Meiko, Mantova, and Panasonic.We comprise a team of highly skilled & renown executive chefs that are called upon for specialist advice by F&B consultants, architects, commercial kitchen contractors, F&B equipment dealers, & ultimately the end-users. Regardless of who we are helping, the common goal being to assist them with the selection & specification of the best possible products for their individual F&B equipment needs. ChefSPEC provides a depth of experience, knowledge, & understanding of commercial foodservice operations at all levels achieved after decades of hands-on food & beverage experience. Our services to our clientele are holistic in that we remain involved with a project from initial brief, through planning, to installation, commissioning, & ultimately hands-on training on the installed ChefSPEC products.For further info, follow our social feeds: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/chefspec?mibextid=LQQJ4dInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/chefspec.com.au/

Brisbane, Australia

CombiChef Pty Ltd was established in 2004 as a consultancy service to the foodservice industry in the Asia Pacific region. Over the past 18+ years we have worked for some of the worlds leading brands of commercial foodservice equipment.

Yatala, Queensland, Australia

Reward Hospitality is owned by the E.CF Group - the European leader in hospitality, catering and general food service supply with key markets in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Paired with market leaders in Europe, Reward offers customers access to products and trends from around the globe. From disposables to large commercial equipment, E.CF Asia Pacific group businesses have all your hospitality supplies in one place. With 30 x branches nationwide, Reward Hospitality, TAS Hotel Supplies, and Burns & Ferrall (NZ) offers the latest tabletop, catering, janitorial, washroom and packaging solutions from around the globe. So whether you’re running a café, restaurant or bar, need quality kitchenware or cleaning supplies, then one of our many branches will be proud to deliver a world of ideas direct to you.My role as APAC Category Manager included dealing with our largest Tier 1 suppliers and in this role I was responsible for contractual negotiations, trading term negotiations, marketing programs, staff training programs, Australian & NZ Standards compliance, and overall stock purchasing strategies for my 3 Tier 1 categories. During my time in the role, ECF made acquisitions in the Asia Pacific region and as a result of these new businesses being brought into our structure, I was also responsible for the entire ECF Asia Pacific group operations from a Tier 1 Category Management perspective for Reward Hospitality, Tas Hotel supplies, Burns & Ferral (NZ), and other business interests in the Pacific Islands.Considerable change management processes were required during each acquisition process to ensure the successful integration of the new business into our larger corporate structure.

Brisbane, Australia

Creative Commercial are the exclusive importer & distributor of "ROTISOL" (France). Rotisol manufacture a range of commercial rotisseries, ovens, & refrigerated and/or heated product display cabinets. www.rotisol.comReporting to the Managing Directors of the company, my role at Creative Commercial as the BDM of is to manage the product via overseeing the sales teams, the day to day operations of the company & to be holistically responsible & accountable for all sales, marketing, after-sales service & technical support, purchasing, logistics & distribution functions of the business.After taking over the management of these functions from my predecessor, the company's turnover had increased by +200%. Margins were consistently on the rise, & the presence of the Rotisol brand in the marketplace became firmly established as the #1 brand in it's category in Australia as a result of my efforts.I managed all aspects of the gas approval process for a complete new range of Rotisol products. This entailed the need for me to source & supply all necessary technical documentation to the relevant certifying bodies, consultants and laboratories engaged by Creative Commercial to assist with this process. My interaction with the Rotisol factory in France was an integral part of the success of the brand in Australia. Having visited the factory in the early days of the role, I have an understanding of their capabilities & technical support.I was also responsible for all marketing initiatives including; the direction & establishment of the companies new website, all social media activities & campaigns, both digital & print media, as well as co-ordinating/organising all trade shows & marketing events. The brand awareness of both Creative Commercial & Rotisol in Australia had grown substantially as a result of these initiatives.www.creative-commercial.com.au

Brisbane, Australia

Bonn Appliances (est 1996) had grown to become Australia’s leading commercial microwave oven specialist, & was also the exclusive Australian distributor of HALLDE food preparation machines - Made in Sweden, DYNAMIC versatile hand held mixers - Made in France, & ROTOR blenders & juicers - Made in Switzerland.The founder & owner of BONN Appliances had taken a step back from the day-to-day management of his own business & my role was to manage & run the business on his behalf "as if it were my own". I was responsible for a national sales team consisting of BDM's & Agents, all head office staff including Financial Controller, accounts receivable/payable, customer service, spare parts & service division, logistics, warehousing & marketing. Bonn Appliances had enjoyed consistent sales growth of between 5 - 10% per annum up until the time I took over the reins, & whilst we maintained that growth in my first year, year 2 was looking very bright due to a number of new marketing & sales incentives I had established both with our sales team as well as our national Dealer network.Unfortunately not long into my 2nd year at BONN Appliances, the owner confided to me that he had been in protracted negotiations to sell the company. The new owners of BONN Appliances were an established Melbourne based enterprise who made the decision to integrate the BONN products into their own existing product range & as a result, my services as well as other key staff were no longer required.The measure of my success in the role in such a short time was the accolades & praise I received from Bonn's direct competitors in the marketplace. I met with 2 GM's of other companies after the sale of BONN was finalised, & both told me that whilst they were sympathetic to the loss of the roles for myself & colleagues, both were also ecstatic over the news of the sale of BONN as my initiatives of the past 12 months had started to seriously bite into their market-share.

Brisbane, Australia

CookOn Catering Equipment are the manufacturers of a diverse & growing range of foodservice equipment products with their head office and production facility based in Brisbane, Australia. Recent winners of the award for "Best New Hospitality Equipment Product" at Fine Food Australia 2013, Cookon are recognised by their peers as an "Australian Made" industry leader and innovator.Having designed and manufactured customised cooking suites for the Chefs of the World for many years, CookOn have established a new sales division "Cookon Custom" to further grow the market for their customised products.CookOn Custom products are already installed in many of the Leading Hotels of the World and are without doubt the "must have" equipment items to make foodservice venues 'stand out' from their competitors.Cookon Custom products include; gas, wood & charcoal fired Char Grills, Wheel Grills, Churrasco's, Parilla's, Rotisseries, Argentinian Fire Pits, etc., etc..

Brisbane, Australia

Middleby Australia is the Asia Pacific branch office of the Middleby Corporation. Opened in Oct 2012, the Middleby Australia office overseas the distribution of Middleby Corporation products in Australia, New Zealand & Pacific Islands.The Middleby Corporation is a global leader in the foodservice equipment industry & owns approx 42 brands of commercial & domestic foodservice equipment. It is said that 1 in 3 kitchens in the World have a Middleby product in them. The company develops, manufactures, markets and services a broad line of equipment used for commercial food cooking, preparation and processing.

Brisbane, Australia

In conjunction with, and as a part of my own company ARNOLD InOutDoor PTY Ltd, my role with the Italian equipment manufacturer Angelo Po was as a contractor and consultant as their Corporate Executive Chef for the Asia Pacific region. The primary scope of this role was to sell and promote the range of Angelo Po products and to advise Architects, Consultants & Designers in the specification and design of commercial kitchens using predominantly Angelo Po products.

Brisbane, Australia

Moffat are the largest manufacturer and distributors of commercial Foodservice equipment in Australia and New Zealand. www.moffat.com.auReporting to the National Sales Manager, I had a dual role whereby I was responsible for Product Management of 3 x of Moffat’s leading Brands; "Convotherm" combisteamers, "Friginox" blast chillers & freezers, & "Rieber" meal delivery solutions.As National Product Manager I was instrumental in the growth of these three brands in conjunction with the backup and support of Moffat marketing team.The 2nd role as Moffat Corporate Executive Chef saw me responsible for the training and management of a large team of Corporate Chefs in both Australia & New Zealand. Moffat are renown for their live cooking events at major industry trade shows and conferences. A further portion of my role required me to take the lead role at all events doing live cooking demonstrations and leading seminars etc..

Brisbane, Australia

Promotion, demonstration & sales of Rational combisteamers to Chefs. Responsible for Comcater Dealers in Brisbane & Far North Queensland.

Senior Certificate

Trade Certificate - Commercial Cookery