Melbourne’s Latest Vegan Concept, The Alley is Landing

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. 

Global City Hopping: Chicago

Global City Hopping: Chicago

Sure, this city has great architecture, museums and sports venues. But at its heart, Chicago is a food town. This is evident in the priority that good eating takes no matter the occasion. It is well known that locals will wait in a line (rain or shine) that snakes around the corner for dolled-up doughnuts at Doughnut Vault. And like any modern foodie around the world, they love to talk about their most recent meal. In my following list; you’ll find our top picks, from quick bites to multi course meals, in the city’s best dining neighbourhoods. Check out the following from my recent six day trip.

How Technology is Elevating the Hospitality Industry

How Technology is Elevating the Hospitality Industry

Anna Saywell, one of our expert food consultants has been looking into how technology is elevating the hospitality industry and where your concept, food precinct or retail centre should be picking up these technologies to enhance the customer experience as well as improve overall business. Find out which technologies are the most popular and how you can use them to enhance your business. 

6 Strategies for Building A Loyalty Program that Gains and Retains Your Customers

6 Strategies for Building A Loyalty Program that Gains and Retains Your Customers

Do you or your operators run a loyalty program? If not, it might be time to consider it. Recent research conducted by Nielsen has shown that loyalty programs can increase frequency of visits and customer spend, two major goals when building a successful food and beverage precinct or developing a new F&B concept. 

How to Build a Successful Hospitality Business Through Staff Training

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. 

Fancy Fast Food: The Concepts That are Bridging the Gap Between Fast Food and Fine Dining

Fancy Fast Food: The Concepts That are Bridging the Gap Between Fast Food and Fine Dining

Fine dining has been evolving in the hospitality world lately and it’s not doing it in the direction of becoming more ‘fine’ in its accessibility but it’s actually evolving into the fast food category meaning people are able to get their hands on high quality food, quickly in many more retail precincts around the world. Fast ‘fine’ food is elevating the way people see food in these precincts and is allowing people to make good food choices without having to think too hard at all.