Keeping an eye on the experience you’re delivering to your customers is necessary to ensure you’re still doing a good job. Staff can quickly drop their standards, customers can adjust their wants and needs or centre management can change hands - all of which can lead to a change in the customer experience or what the customer expects from their time with you. This is why it’s important to monitor how you’re doing and continue to implement strategies to elevate the F&B experience. Here are four tips to ensure you continue to improve the customer experience to give them more and more of what they want to ultimately better your business.
Melbourne’s Latest Vegan Concept, The Alley is Landing
The Alley, a plant-based eatery is about to open on St Kilda Road in Melbourne. It will be serving up 100% vegan food in a fast and casual environment, something we haven’t seen too much of in plant-based F&B offers to date. The menu is going to consist of burgers made in-house, pastas, cold-pressed juices, baked treats and other vegan sweets with burgers being filled with pulled jackfruit instead of pulled pork and ice cream made from coconut milk instead of dairy. Read more to find out exactly what it is about this concept that makes us tick.
How to Build a Successful Hospitality Business Through Staff Training
We identified in our previous blog post (Eating out in Australia: 2016 in Review) that staffing remains to be one of the biggest issues facing the hospitality industry not because there is a shortage of people to do the job but because there are less people doing the job well and being rewarded for it when they do which comes down to training and management.
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.
Future Food News: Unveiling The New Chadstone Shopping Centre
One of the latest Future Food projects has just been completed at Chadstone Shopping Centre, Melbourne. Chadstone has always been know as ‘The Fashion Capital’ but now it is also 'The Food Capital', following a $660 million redevelopment that has reinvigorated Chadstone’s shopping experience. Future Food collaborated with the redevelopment team to masterplan the two new dining precincts including a dining terrace and a family-friendly food court.




