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2025 Food and Hospitality Trends Reshaping the ...

Future Food have curated a list of food trends that we have seen through our work and experience in Australia and around the world. Which food and hospitality trends will inspire you and your team to enhance your centre, precinct, campus or club to drive value and improve the customer experience?

2025 Food and Hospitality Trends Reshaping the Australian landscape
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Evolve to Thrive: Strategic Food & Beverage ...
Evolve to Thrive: Strategic Food & Beverage Planning for Clubs
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'Local' Food and Hospitality influences in the ...
'Local' Food and Hospitality influences in the Business of Food
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Successful Food Procurement RFP Delivers ...
Successful Food Procurement RFP Delivers Exceptional Results Across Clubs
Future Food Strategy Group
How Food and Dining is shaping a nation; ...
How Food and Dining is shaping a nation; driving social & cultural change, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Retail

Make a Moment of It: Be the Experience Diners and Shoppers Want to Buy

Make a Moment of It: Be the Experience Diners and Shoppers Want to Buy

Restaurant management platform, SevenRooms has been exploring the shift in consumer needs when it comes to dining out and the results have just come through in their recent report “Turning a Meal Into an Experience” to define exactly what hospitality can focus on to gain customer loyalty. With the focus shifting from food alone to an all-encompassing experience, understanding the key points that enhance or deflate an experience are key. Interestingly enough, a large part of the results can be applied to not only to the hospitality industry but the retail and entertainment industries also who are seeking to provide that ‘value-add’ - the experience, that cannot be found online. From making a space atmospheric to using a customer’s name, here’s what you can take home from the report: 

Hospitality Masterplanning Korea’s Largest Shopping Mall: Shinsegae Starfield Hanam

Hospitality Masterplanning Korea’s Largest Shopping Mall: Shinsegae Starfield Hanam

Future Food were brought onto the Shinsegae Starfield project as the principal hospitality masterplanners to work alongside owners, Shinsegae Property and Taubmans Asia. With an investment price tag of $1.3 billion, the scale of this project is one of the the biggest Korea has seen. See how Future Food tackled this project to deliver a world class dining experience to suit the elevated retail and entertainment offer at Shinsegae Starfield, Hanam.

The Art of Hospitality Masterplanning in Retail Centres

The Art of Hospitality Masterplanning in Retail Centres

Today, food and beverage is one of the biggest assets to a development proven by the exponential growth that has occurred in this category over the last few years. The global food and beverage market has been growing at roughly 5% a year and in doing so, food outlets are now making up over 20% of new and redeveloped retail centres as they become a mainstay and an anchor for shopping centre success. Over the years, and as avid foodies, the Future Food team have learnt that there are a set of common key components that successful hospitality masterplans posses.

8 Design Features for Experiential Dining

8 Design Features for Experiential Dining

With every competitor in the market now understanding that an ‘experience’ is now a minimum expectation, creating a design concept or precinct design that is outstanding on an experiential level, can be challenging. How will customers remember your food and beverage offer from the next? We have eight recommendations that will help to create an elevated experience using interior design as the primary tool. By elevating the design of your interior space using some or all of these recommendations, you can create the best environment for memories and customer loyalty time and time again. 

The Booming Brunch Scene: The most popular day-part for dining out

The Booming Brunch Scene: The most popular day-part for dining out

According to The NPD Group’s latest market research, brunch is currently the most popular day-part for not only full service restaurants (FSR) but quick service restaurants (QSR) and retail as well with it experiencing a 12% visit growth across all sectors in 2017. And a similar trend is being experienced globally with more people looking up places to eat brunch on Google than ever before. What makes this day-part so appealing to our emerging population?

Keeping Up with The Gen Z'ers

Keeping Up with The Gen Z'ers

We first introduced you to the Gen Z generation last year where we discussed what the food landscape is predicted to look like to appeal to this uprising age group (8 Things You Need to Know About Generation Z). Time has passed and the industry is even more focussed on this group who are fast becoming key customers, particularly when it comes to food. As they continue to grow up and begin making independent purchasing decisions; media attention, market research and advertising campaigns are analysing a generation to understand exactly what it is they want and need.