Future Food Strategy Group
High-performance cost of goods – maximising ...
High-performance cost of goods – maximising results for Clubs
Future Food Strategy Group
A 2023 Snapshot – The Diversification and ...
A 2023 Snapshot – The Diversification and Evolution of Future Food
Future Food Strategy Group
The Devil is in The Detail – providing avenues ...
The Devil is in The Detail – providing avenues for asset growth through F&B operational excellence
Hospitality, Projects
Future Food Strategy Group
Connecting great Clubs with great Food and ...

Food and beverage provides Clubs with substantial competitive advantages:

  • Positive Business Case. A well-performing F&B venue can translate into a substantial revenue stream for Clubs. 

  • Point of Difference. Hospitality and food & beverage service can be the differentiator that advances a good Club experience to an exceptional one. The ability to get it right in food and beverage can underpin a Club's individuality, attracting in-demand membership and increased visitation. In a crowded market, where Clubs vie for attention, a superior F&B offering becomes a key aspect of distinguishing one Club from another.

Connecting great Clubs with great Food and Beverage Operators
Business, Food & Hospitality Trends
Future Food Strategy Group
The future strategies of fresh food markets in ...

This year we have had the privilege to provide food consultancy for some of Australia’s best fresh-food markets; both existing and under redevelopment. Our exposure to projects such as the new Sydney Fish Market, Adelaide Central Market (both under redevelopment), plus Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market and Camberwell Market have provided us with contemporary insight and research into the opportunities, challenges, management and direction of large and small footprint, fresh food and specialty produce market-retail.

The future strategies of fresh food markets in Australia – what's on the horizon?

Food & Hospitality Trends

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Food & hospitality is open for business

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Food & hospitality is open for business

We as an industry are back and open for dine-in business. The profound power of the anticipation and excitement these simple words hold is balanced by the weight of a new normal for food and hospitality operators. This Monday has seen every state government now relax restrictions sufficiently to reopen our dine-in service – albeit in differing degrees from state to state. If reports of Monday night covers around Melbourne are anything to go by, diners are quite literally salivating at the chance to return to their favourite venue; as competitive as this has become as the reality of seating limitations make this once relatively simple pleasure, not quite so simple.

Execution is Everything post Covid19: Melbourne Shopping Centres in review

Execution is Everything post Covid19: Melbourne Shopping Centres in review

Future Food recently conducted Assessments of Centre-wide food & hospitality capability across five Shopping Centres in Melbourne.

Future Food’s most requested services during the lockdown period have been focussed on assisting Centre Management and Landlords to provide independent, solutions-based strategies, via our expertise in development of both commercial and food strategies.

Five Food & Hospitality Trends for a Post-Lockdown World

Five Food & Hospitality Trends for a Post-Lockdown World

Prior to the pandemic, many people predicted food trends such as a rising interest in meat alternatives, low or no-alcohol beverages and sustainability-driven purchasing behaviours amongst many others. In a little under six months, the entire industry has been tipped on its head due to COVID-19.

The pandemic has been a catalyst for change in the food and hospitality industry. For many it has been a tremendously difficult period, however we are starting to emerge from the lockdown period, and tentatively look towards the future.

Hospitality in Australia Emerging from under the Pandemic Restrictions

Hospitality in Australia Emerging from under the Pandemic Restrictions

Staying positive, finding the silver lining & planning for the ‘next normal’.

There are hardly enough words in any language to fully capture or encapsulate the complete emotional and physical toll that the COVID-19 pandemic has had and will continue have on our family, friends, colleagues, co-workers and our hospitality industry in Australian. We will have a shared experience as a country, society and culture, it will also be an intensely personal experience, and this will play out in our hospitality industry as we emerge from under the pandemic restrictions. The ‘new normal’ is the recent catch phrase widely used but we have taken the view that this is inadequate, as it will be quickly be replaced by another ‘new normal’ as conditions change. A more apt description for rapidly changing near future is the ‘next normal’ and the next and the next.

Modern Elevated Standards of Campus F&B

Modern Elevated Standards of Campus F&B

Enhancing the on-campus experience, with ‘High Street’ quality experiences.

We all may have tried to erase the sordid memories from our consciousness of the types of food and beverage that we were exposed to during our days as University / TAFE students, but have you ever thought that perhaps our modern-day love affair with consuming all the finest things, may in fact have sprouted from these distant and not so pleasant memories.

The staple diet of two-minute noodles, instant coffee, cheap booze and fast food is synonymous with the psyche of being a University student on a tight budget, with limited resources, time or motivation to boot.

But are these stereotypes fading into oblivion, with priorities of students being reprogrammed with greater expectations relating to modern food and hospitality experiences, akin to what we are seeing more broadly across the industry?

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Vegan & Vegetarian meat substitutes and the potential health risks of these food types

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Vegan & Vegetarian meat substitutes and the potential health risks of these food types

Generally speaking, vegetarian and vegan lifestyles can be extremely healthy when eating a plant-based diet full of wholefoods, fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, legumes etc. Recently, however, there has been an influx of a wide variety of new vegan and vegetarian processed products that do not provide consumers with all of the health benefits you might expect from adhering to a meat-free diet. It is important to ensure that you read the back of the package to really understand what is packed into these faux meat processed foods that may negatively impact on consumer’s health.