Hybrid work means Mini Guns must lift their F&B game
More people are working from home, and Australia is leading the world! 34% of Australian workers are ‘hybrid’ – more than in the US, UK and Canada. This means they’re...
Why COVID pets are re-shaping our F&B landscape
In this article, Titanium Food & Place’s Suzee Brain crystal balls the F&B landscape across the major retail asset classes with some fascinating insights. During COVID, 20% of families welcomed...
B&P: Food trends 2022
Prophets are widespread; predicting the future is easy, getting it right is the hard part! When it comes to F&B trends, Suzee Brain reckons she’s in front. She gives us...
Cooking with(out) gas: How to move to all-electric F&B precincts
You could never operate an entire food court without gas. Or could you? Suzee Brain maintains you can; it’s a radical change but there’s nothing new in that. Radical changes...
3 steps to recalibrating CBD food post pandemic
This article written by Suzee Brain, Director Brain & Poulter was first published in SCN Vol.39 No. 2 – CBD Guns 2021 Whatever the ‘new normal’ produces, with regard to F&B businesses...
Video killed the radio star but COVID-19 killed the foodcourt
The food court as we know it – a mass of seats, surrounded by fast food outlets on the perimeter – is very ill, dying or, according to Suzee Brain,...
F&B in the ‘new normal’
Food & Beverage (F&B) has been and will continue to be impacted enormously. Many restaurants, cafés, food court operators and specialised food outlets, will never open again and others will...
Food Halls – the replacement anchor for shopping centres
Food Halls are changing as fast as mobile phones do! They used to be just a simple area with various fresh food outlets; now they are a mix of fresh...
Three ways to re-invent food courts in Little Guns
Talk about disruption and the need for innovation. The Little Gun category has never been under so much pressure. Caught between the convenience of the supermarket and services anchored neighbourhood...
How to increase rents from F&B renewals during a downturn
CBD food and beverage has exploded this decade as the millennials joined with Gen Y to dominate the workplace. With marriages and mortgages an impossible dream for these younger Aussies,...
Food trends: Ten-year challenge 2009 – 2019
Celebrating its 10th anniversary year, Suzee Brain, takes a look back at the trends predicted by B&P for the shopping centre industry in relation to food over the past decade....
Why Kerry Packer was the best food consultant I ever met
Kerry Packer and Food Consulting? Not as far-fetched as you might think. It seems that the great man knew a lot about how we eat. Suzee Brain recounts her time...
Farewell smashed avocado
The iGeners are here and in force – they’ve joined the Millennials and, more to the point, they’re influencing our centres. iGeners don’t remember a time before the internet; they...
Five steps to using food to re-invent your centre
If the MAT is OK but the MAT/m2 is low, usually it’s a no-brainer. Cut down the size of the shop, create another one. The retailer wins because they have...
Five must-haves to add a dining precinct to a Little Gun
With food catering sales up by 6.8% YTD according to ABS Retail Trade data for August 2017, many owners of sub-regional-sized centres are keen to add additional GLA in the car parks...
Census 2016 – what it means for food & beverage
Like Bernard Salt, our nation’s most popular demographer, the analysts at B&P have been as excited as kids on Christmas Eve awaiting the release of the 2016 Census data...
Top 5 F&B trends for 2017
As the dust settles on another holiday season, we begin the year, as usual, with a comprehensive review of the last 12 months' consulting work and analysis of the latest industry research...
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