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Food, Hospitality & Beverage Industry Trends - 2018
Food, Hospitality & Beverage Industry Trends - 2018

Francis Loughran, founder and managing director of Future Food, foresees more beautiful cafes and restaurants in our malls and high streets as operators move beyond just food and focus on design-driven spaces and genuine customer service. Read Future Food's ten predictions for food, beverage and hospitality trends that will surface in 2018. 

The 10 Principles of Maximising Food Sales in Retail Centres
The 10 Principles of Maximising Food Sales in Retail Centres

With the arrival of the new financial year comes a time to consider how the next year will pan out for your business. Whether you’re a developer or single operator, how will you continue to increase business growth and maintain asset value in this highly competitive and growing industry that is hospitality? With retails majors such as David Jones announcing their $100million investment into the food sector, it’s no doubt that businesses are all grabbing for a slice of the ‘food and beverage’ pie. Future Food has put together 10 key principles to ensure your retail centre’s food and beverage offer stays ahead for the next financial year and beyond.

The Psychology of Menu Design
The Psychology of Menu Design

How good menu design can persuade your customers to buy more

As a consumer, whether we like it or not, psychology has been used to determine the way we create and angle marketing and as we focus more on the customer, understanding the psychology of these people is a key part of business success. As an operator, there are many ways we can use this to our advantage to maximise sales opportunities and profit margins and increase customer satisfaction as well as return visitation.

The Future of Quick Service Restaurants
The Future of Quick Service Restaurants

Recent research by Deloitte on quick service (QSR) and fast casual restaurants shows that there are some very particular factors that make it easy for a person to choose a menu, spend more and return again and again and these factors will be some of the keys to future success for food and beverage outlets. Here are 5 key facts found in the research that customers want from their QSR’s and fast casual restaurants into the future

How Hospitality and the Customer Experience are Revolutionising our Retail Precincts
How Hospitality and the Customer Experience are Revolutionising our Retail Precincts

Shopping centres are becoming community spaces as opposed to the traditional shopping hub they once were. These spaces are purpose built for people to meet, eat and be entertained in, The industry has the opportunity to create developments that are usable and desirable to the modern customer. Our customers now have the world of shopping in the palm of their hands and hence are looking for that differentiating factor from the spaces they visit. To support this transition, food and entertainment within these spaces has and will continue to grow as an asset category as they provide the point-of-difference (POD), the customer experience and memorable hospitality that cannot be found on the web. 

How Millennials Want to Spend Their F&B Dollars
How Millennials Want to Spend Their F&B Dollars

44% of the money Millennials spend on food goes towards buying food when they’re out and about or ordering take away. However, when it comes to what they want to spend their money on, market research has shown that they are looking for something very specific when it comes to their food experience they invest in. Here are the 5 key things Millennials want and will lead to gaining and retaining their business if you provide them.

How Technology is Elevating the Hospitality Industry
How Technology is Elevating the Hospitality Industry

Anna Saywell, one of our expert food consultants has been looking into how technology is elevating the hospitality industry and where your concept, food precinct or retail centre should be picking up these technologies to enhance the customer experience as well as improve overall business. Find out which technologies are the most popular and how you can use them to enhance your business. 

Fancy Fast Food: The Concepts That are Bridging the Gap Between Fast Food and Fine Dining
Fancy Fast Food: The Concepts That are Bridging the Gap Between Fast Food and Fine Dining

Fine dining has been evolving in the hospitality world lately and it’s not doing it in the direction of becoming more ‘fine’ in its accessibility but it’s actually evolving into the fast food category meaning people are able to get their hands on high quality food, quickly in many more retail precincts around the world. Fast ‘fine’ food is elevating the way people see food in these precincts and is allowing people to make good food choices without having to think too hard at all.

Eating out in Australia: 2016 (Australian Food Statistics)
Eating out in Australia: 2016 (Australian Food Statistics)

2016 brought in a new set of data delivered by Intermedia on what it means as Australia to ‘eat out’. It’s the first time data has been assessed like this thanks to a combination of operator research, consumer interviews and statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Here's what we learnt. 

2017's Food, Beverage and Hospitality Trends
2017's Food, Beverage and Hospitality Trends

We've delved a little deeper than these and have identified 10 trends that are growing in the food, beverage and hospitality category related not only to what people will be eating this year but also the business of food to set our clients or potential partners up with a brief insight into how you can do well with food and hospitality this year and beyond.