Retail Precincts

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?

A New Type of Food Concept: The Food Collective

A New Type of Food Concept: The Food Collective

Saying that a food collective concept is a ‘new’ one might be technically incorrect but in the last year or so, their popularity has spiked. A food collective is a concept that contains more than one type of food option in the one outlet. You could consider it as a small-scale fresh food market or food hall where you can get a curated selection of food items like fresh made paninis, hand-tossed salads, daily desserts and local bakery goods all in one confined space. 

It’s About Data, Not Demographics: How food operators can take the personalised approach to understanding their customer

It’s About Data, Not Demographics: How food operators can take the personalised approach to understanding their customer

Technology has transformed drastically since Future Food first set out on a mission to create customer-centric food precincts. Back then, we had access to large chunks of information explaining demographic groups such age, sex and ethnicity that would assist us in creating hospitality spaces designed for our project’s identified users. Demographics were the starting point however, nowadays as people become more connected and groups become less defined, demographics may not be the most useful tool to go off anymore. 

The Humble High Street Cafe as a Benchmark for Dining in Retail Precincts

The Humble High Street Cafe as a Benchmark for Dining in Retail Precincts

There is one type of food outlet found outside the food court that consistently meets these customer expectations and is becoming a suitable benchmark for the way in which food operators conduct themselves and precinct management services an area. That outlet is the much-loved, local cafe.

4 Ways Food and Hospitality Precincts Can Capture the Experience Economy

4 Ways Food and Hospitality Precincts Can Capture the Experience Economy

Tapping into the customer’s need for experience is a relevant part of all retail and luckily for the food and hospitality industry, giving that to them is not difficult to do with dining and eating being an experience in itself. However, as the industry grows and businesses continue to compete for customer spend it is important that developers and retail masterplanners continually develop the experience they are offering to continue enticing the customer and fulfil their want to spend on more than just a sandwich wrapped in paper. Here are just four simple ways in which food precincts and operators within developments around the world are delivering on an experiential level. 

Sustainability: A Key to Your Food Business’s Future Success

Sustainability: A Key to Your Food Business’s Future Success

Sustainability in the food and hospitality sector is a big topic to touch on. Future Food placed it on the list of top 10 trends to look out for in 2018 with it being less of a ‘trend’ and more of responsibility that food and hospitality businesses must now uphold. Whether it’s a food precinct in a development or a single food operator, we all need to be thinking about ways in which we can deliver on sustainability to ensure the food and hospitality industry is doing their part for the environment and in doing so, business gains can be achieved. 

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