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Customer & Industry Trends
Customer and industry trends identified in the 2019 Eating Out in Australia report, highlight a disconnect between the perspective of both customers and operators. Yet it also offers some magnificent insights in staying relevant and thrive in what has always been a competitive market.
Let’s start by looking at the key industry concerns.
Eating Out in Australia - Takeaways on Takeaway
The Eating Out in Australia publication is out and once again there are some terrific insights in there.
Future Food has analysed the detailed data and have come up with some interesting findings concerning our love affair with takeaway food.
Local Markets – The Winning Formula
Staying connected with customers, day & night delivering relevant and exciting experiences for all.
Australia’s Local Markets are leading the way when it comes to Remaining Relevant and Delivering Unique Food Experiences. Where other precincts are trying to figure out how to evolve and expand their F&B offer, the best of Australia’s markets have been doing just that for over a century. Their experience is well worth studying in order to understand how to deliver the best of Food and Hospitality – authenticity, sociability, repeat visitation, enjoyment and fun – to your project.
Supermarket Trends Target Café & Dining Menus
Here at Future Food, we study trends and changes taking place in the exciting world of food and hospitality. None is more exciting or challenging for retail food operators that the endless growth in prepared food furnishing the shelves of our supermarkets. Maybe Australia is just catching-up with supermarkets globally or waking-up to the fact that people want convenience, value and freshness, something that supermarkets are good at delivering.
Positioning Your Shopping Centre’s Food & Hospitality For The Future (CONTINUED)
Dining out is so much more than food on a plate – think street-labels, authentic flavours and eclectic food offers all amounting to memorable customer experiences. These are the key elements to develop the food and hospitality within our shopping centres and mixed-use developments, to cater to the needs of our growing cities, the spend potential of millennials and how food is a crucial anchor for many shopping centres.
Positioning Your Shopping Centre’s Food & Hospitality For The Future
Mall Developer’s recipe for success – The Key Ingredients? FOOD, HOSPITALITY, ENTERTAINMENT & BEAUTIFUL SPACES!
Shopping Centres are Living Centres, around the world. As Shopping centres are changing rapidly, food and hospitality is central to the business case, physical environments are crucial in creating the Centre’s Point of Difference (P.O.D.).
Food Halls - I'm Here for the Experience
Food Halls are not just food courts in different guise. They are new food destinations that are exciting consumers around the world by putting food, design and experience first. These new dining meccas are all about hospitality - built on a strategy of the structure of traditional food courts and the success of Eataly and the great food markets of the world. All of this is informed by understanding the importance of modern biophilic design principles which are aimed at enhancing the well-being of users through “green-place” features.
Recognising Disappointment
Last week, I wrote about authenticity – how customers are looking for an authentic and positive food and beverage experience. This leads to the simple conclusion about the Business of Food: Retailers can only maximise sales and generate profit if the product is great. Sales are driven by satisfaction.
Customers Demand Authentic Hospitality Experiences - Every time
Let’s start off by saying that commercial hospitality is everywhere we look. From our morning coffee to our brunch on the weekend. We are looking for the same thing – an authentic and positive food and beverage experience.