Glenn is the founder and principal of Xtreme Chef Consulting building this exciting and unique food service consulting firm over the past 14 years. Glenn’s success is built on a genuine and extensive
experience base of QSR, hotel and food manufacturing, together with several layers of industry contacts, knowledge and professional affiliations manages to deliver solid results for all of Xtreme’s clients.
Working in many markets has developed Xtreme to be now recognised globally as an important and influential service to the food industry, having a presence in several international markets including Japan,
Canada, USA, South Africa, India, China, Thailand, Singapore, Germany, New Zealand and of course Australia. Xtreme is proud of its recent business portfolio including both the summer and winter Olympic
games as major international successes.
Summary
Hospitality requires a range of qualities and commitment well beyond those needed in main stream business. Glenn Austin has uniqueness, a special flair, an ability to sift through information and efficiently
formulate results, providing a commitment to client satisfaction and working towards a strategy of high return and problem solving.
The constant success of Xtreme is directly relative to the continuous results driven by the long term influence of Glenn’s ability to perform in a client’s business environment.
As a testament to ongoing success in the past several months Glenn has had several promotions; At the world chefs conference in Chile Glenn was re-elected to the world board of chefs, internationally
re-appointed in his Global business development position for Fonterra , has had a successful term with JBS Swift and has grown his position within QSR throughout Asia. His achievements are a result of
his persistence, knowledge, energy and effort.
Current Clients and Titles
- Continental Director World board of Chefs Pacific Rim
- Australian Culinary Federation Honorary Life President
- Certified Executive Chef
- X-Treme Opulence Design Consultant
- International Judge for Worlds association of Chefs and ACF
- Monthly Columnist Open House Magazine
- International Consultant to Clubs, Hotels and Restaurants Australia wide
- Fonterra Global Executive chef and business development
- Global Pizza Challenge principal
- Weekly presenter on the great weekender radio program
- Culinary Director - Swift Australia
Awards and Australian representative Teams
- Winner Amex Restaurant of the year
- Australian International Culinary Team member twice
- Team member for the Davos Project. (Victorian Government presentation in Switzerland for the World economic Forum)
- Australian National Team leader World Cooks tour for Hunger South Africa. Demonstrating Australian Cuisine
- Australian Representative Chef World Cup Paris 2003 medal winner
- Past Culinary Olympic Team Manager
- Team Executive Chef, team won outright Americas Cup New York 2004/2005
- Mentor to the World winner in Sial Paris 2004
- Food service product innovation award APL 10. Product Excellence Award - Yum Conference Taipei 2011
Career highlights
- Principal of Xtreme consulting, a financially stable and successful consultancy heading for 15 years of operation
- First Australian to be voted to the World Board of Chefs
- Continual success for product development in international QSR
- Group Chef and business development for four Hotel brands
- Multiple International Medal winner
- General Manager of business development and procurement for FOCiS
- Seven Television shows including two pilots for new series
- Author of “Hospitality operators manual” pending publishing
- Principal of Global Pizza Challenge
- General manager Murray Human Services (Disability service)
- Ambassador to the Thai Government for Seafood.
- Global Business development for Fonterra