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.
44% of the money Millennials spend on food goes towards buying food when they’re out and about or ordering take away. However, when it comes to what they want to spend their money on, market research has shown that they are looking for something very specific when it comes to their food experience they invest in. Here are the 5 key things Millennials want and will lead to gaining and retaining their business if you provide them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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