Sales Maximisation

Hospitality Mindset – A sales & service maximiser approach (Part 2)

Hospitality Mindset – A sales & service maximiser approach (Part 2)

In part one of this article, I spoke about the customer’s timeless desire and appreciation of quality food and service and how this is the platform from which to drive food and hospitality sales.

Let us be clear from the outset, it is all about sales. Why? because Food+Design+Service =Sales=Rent=Profit=Asset Growth.

In a post-corona world, (at least in Australia and New Zealand,) we have new expectations of our cafes, restaurants, pubs, roof-top bars and food halls, as we all strive to regain daily routine and a comfort-level in the next-normal.

Food & Beverage Strategy - Future Focused Part 2

Food & Beverage Strategy -  Future Focused Part 2

Food Beverage Strategy - Future Focused Part 2

Building great places and creating exceptional experiences for your 'Non-Online' purchases

In part one, I wrote about how flexibility must be the foundation from which to develop future-focused food and beverage strategies (F&B Strategy). Insights from our projects around the world confirm time and time again, flexibility is the key to future planning. Whilst the pandemic has driven substantial growth in on-line purchases; future spending on food and hospitality will ALWAYS be about the built environment and its uniqueness as a lifestyle destination. New Zealand’s post-pandemic immediate return to eating out and drinking in bars re-confirms customers still demand a unique physical restaurant or bar especially at malls that show intrinsic value as beautiful and hygienic socialising places.

Food & Beverage Strategy - Future Focused

Food & Beverage Strategy - Future Focused

Food Beverage Strategy - Future Focused

In this two-part blog, I will share with you why change is good when it comes to food and hospitality planning and how new opportunities must harnessed in order to think differently and to future-focus food and beverage strategies (F&B Strategy). One that complements the vision for the project; including the built environment, placemaking, lifestyle attributes, anchors and entertainment features, to name a few.

Supermarket Trends Target Café & Dining Menus

Supermarket Trends Target Café & Dining Menus

Here at Future Food, we study trends and changes taking place in the exciting world of food and hospitality.  None is more exciting or challenging for retail food operators that the endless growth in prepared food furnishing the shelves of our supermarkets.  Maybe Australia is just catching-up with supermarkets globally or waking-up to the fact that people want convenience, value and freshness, something that supermarkets are good at delivering.

Positioning Your Shopping Centre’s Food & Hospitality For The Future (CONTINUED)

Positioning Your Shopping Centre’s Food & Hospitality For The Future (CONTINUED)

Dining out is so much more than food on a plate – think street-labels, authentic flavours and eclectic food offers all amounting to memorable customer experiences. These are the key elements to develop the food and hospitality within our shopping centres and mixed-use developments, to cater to the needs of our growing cities, the spend potential of millennials and how food is a crucial anchor for many shopping centres.

Positioning Your Shopping Centre’s Food & Hospitality For The Future

Positioning Your Shopping Centre’s Food & Hospitality For The Future

Mall Developer’s recipe for success – The Key Ingredients? FOOD, HOSPITALITY, ENTERTAINMENT & BEAUTIFUL SPACES!

Shopping Centres are Living Centres, around the world. As Shopping centres are changing rapidly, food and hospitality is central to the business case, physical environments are crucial in creating the Centre’s Point of Difference (P.O.D.).