Vegan & Vegetarian meat substitutes and the potential health risks of these food types.
Generally speaking, vegetarian and vegan lifestyles can be extremely healthy when eating a plant-based diet full of wholefoods, fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, legumes etc. Recently, however, there has been an influx of a wide variety of new vegan and vegetarian processed products that do not provide consumers with all of the health benefits you might expect from adhering to a meat-free diet. It is important to ensure that you read the back of the package to really understand what is packed into these faux meat processed foods that may negatively impact on consumer’s health.
Great Service in an Era of Labour Costs and Technology
Will Guidara, one of the owners of Eleven Madison Avenue in New York, has been quoted as saying that it’s “compassion and passion [that] gives a fantastic dining experience.”
As every successful restaurateur will tell you, passion is the reason that they started their venture in the first place. It’s what continues to drive their activities. But passion alone can only take you so far.
Jay Rayner, the UK food critic, has recently written that he, “does not regard the table primarily as a place of nutrition. That’s just something which, happily, comes with the territory. It’s a place of joy.”
THE FUTURE OF FOOD IS EXCITING
Trends that will shape the future of your food and hospitality projects for 2020.
Trends are no longer limited to the cuisines on offer or the style of service. The ‘whole experience’ is what matters. Customers have feelings, opinions and are savvy when it comes to choosing where to spend their money. However, food and service will always be at the heart of hospitality.
Gaining appeal and setting the mood of food and beverage outlets means engaging the customers eye with purposeful visual cues from ambient lighting to consistent and bold branding. We want to explore the use of lighting techniques and graphic design in hospitality and how these harmonise with a food and beverage outlet’s offering to complete the look and feel of the place.
The way a customer rates a place is not on the size or scale of the shop, it is how immersive and experiential the environment is and how it compliments the food offering - food and design need to work in harmony which means operational efficiencies and ergonomic design need to be implemented perfectly. Let’s delve deeper into the key considerations of a concept to ensure functionality meets clever and creative design.
We recently had some clients from New Zealand come town who we are working on a retail precinct project with alongside NH Architecture. As our city has some of the best design for hospitality, showing them around and exploring what can be done with food-focused spaces allowed a conversation to start and inspiration to be drawn. This is an integral process to elevate a project to a level that sets it apart from the rest.
Walk through the tour we took the team on and see where inspiration is being drawn from in our city of Melbourne.
The Eat Drink Design Awards are an annual event celebratinginnovation and excellence in the design of hospitality premises of all scales and types, retail environments for the sale of food and beverages and visual identities for both. We’ve selected our favourites from each category within our hometown of Melbourne. Some we’ve tried, others are on the top of the list but all-in-all these are the places that are paving the way for great design in the hospitality category.
We’ve learnt a lot about BOH design over the years as we’ve watched some set-ups fail to function and others thrive on clever design. It’s one of those things that unless you’ve been in BOH spaces a lot, it’s hard to know what will and won’t work and how to incorporate that into something that also looks great. So, here are four key points we always consider with the design team when thinking about back-of-house design to ensure the space functions well...
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