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.
Whilst it is easy to say what good a food precinct can do, an important part of our project delivery is to ensure that the precincts we deliver overcome major operational challenges that come with having food and beverage outlets operating in the space. We’ve listed 4 major operational challenges that are specific to a food and beverage precinct and must be addressed to ensure operational and business efficiency
Managing Director and leading food expert for Future Food, Francis Loughran sat down with Colliers International in New Zealand to talk about where food in retail has been, where it is now and where it is headed for the future. The original article was published as part of Collier International's Christchurch City Retail Portfolio which can be viewed here.
The food and beverage category has been growing strongly and does not appear to be slowing down. When we look at the fact that Australians alone are spending $45 billion per year on eating out, it comes as no surprise why developments and precincts are filling up the space with more food and beverage offerings to raise more business. What is it that is driving this growth in the food and beverage category? What is drawing the customer in more than ever? and what makes them see value in food so much as to invest into it?
Analysing your target customer is step one to providing a curated and strategic food and beverage masterplan. The Future Food model to masterplanning is customer-centric meaning our team work to understand and intricately assess just who uses the space in order to create a set of food and beverage concepts that satisfy everyone’s wants and needs.
We’ve put together a quick guide to show you the different types of concepts, who uses them and how this looks in reality with examples given from one of our recent retail projects at Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne, Australia.
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