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Mark Labrooy

Mark Labrooy

Australian chef and cookbook author, co-founder of Three Blue Ducks and founder of Barney's Pizza and Wild Game in Woonona, NSW.

Oct 2, 2026

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For
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those who don't know.
43:34
So as of today, previously, if you chose to purchase your meal with an Amex or, you know, your credit card or whatever your payment choice is.
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Apple Pay or something like that.
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there's a fee attached to it usually between 1.4 and 1.8 percent right depending on what your on what your card is and now this whole thing is like okay well you know we're going to save the average you know this is this is our most key like we're going to save the everyday Australian because we're going to make business businesses absorb that you know sort of up to two percent but What people don't realize is like those large restaurant groups, their profit margin is maybe five to seven, a lot of them three, you know.
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So if you cop a two.
44:18
I don't think

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It was great.
40:35
... how you cooked them?
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I, I did smuggle in a little bit of goods into the country, but we don't really need to mention that.
40:41
But, um, I did, like, a harissa glaze on a coral trout, and over here they cook in a way that I hadn't seen before, where they collect pieces of coral off the beach or the river stones.
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They make a fire, and then they put all those smaller stones on top of the fire, and they let it all burn down.
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And particularly the coral, it kinda, like, burns up, gets really hot, and then breaks down and kind of basically turns into sand.
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And, um, I, I'd made these little parcels of fish, and the g- the, the women had-

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It's corn flour, isn't it?
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But you can do y- yeah.

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