The country’s first ever dedicated trade event for the multi-billion dollar food-to-go market, aptly named lunch!, will be held in Sydney on August 6-7.

Featuring more than 150 unique suppliers to the growing food-to-go sector, lunch! will showcase innovations and fresh ideas to thousands of trade visitors over two days. There will also be competitions, showcases, demonstrations and seminars tailored to all facets of the food-to-go industry, along with highlights including:

Working lunch! business theatre: a series of free business seminars designed to assist food-to-go businesses;

Lunch! kitchen of champions: top industry professionals will go head-to-head in an exciting array of competitions including The Australian Pizza Comp, The Barista Competition and the Australian Smoothie Championships;

Great Australian Sandwichship: celebrating the 250th anniversary of the sandwich, top sandwich ’artistes’ will battle it out to create the best sandwich;

Lunch! Skills Academy: practical demonstrations including sushi rolling, pastry making, sandwich skills, and much more;

Innovations challenge: watch the cream of the crop pitch their ideas to a panel of experts; and

Hospitality franchising forum: potential and existing franchisees can connect and meet with hospitality franchisors.