The future of food and beverage in Entertainment and Leisure Precincts (ELPs) has never been brighter, as consumers continue to prioritise experiences where they can socialise through modern, design-driven places and spaces with a multitude of entertainment options, while choosing from a diverse and curated food and hospitality offer. Future...

Future Food is a long-time contributor to SCN magazine. Recently, two of its principals, Allan Forsdick and David Mallon visited Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to look at the food and beverage...

Future Food is a long-time contributor to SCN magazine. Recently, two of its principals, Allan Forsdick and David Mallon visited Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to look at the food and beverage...

In this article, Allan Forsdick of Future Food explores the evolving trends that are driving the critical role of curated food and hospitality in enhancing customer experiences and creating sustainable...

In this article, Allan Forsdick of Future Food unravels the threads that connect hospitality and centre productivity in the unique environment of Little Guns. The experience economy remains at the...

In this article, Allan Forsdick delves into practical strategies for shopping centres and F&B operators to consider, in order to meet the specific needs of different customer segments to maximise...

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...

Future Food provides food consultancy for some of Australia’s best fresh food markets; both existing and under redevelopment. With exposure to projects such as the new Sydney Fish Market, Adelaide...

The term ‘retail centre’ is definitely ‘old-hat’. Today our centres are lifestyle destinations, pleasure domes, entertainment hubs, experiential spaces… the list goes on. In this article for SCN, Allan Forsdick...

Canberra Centre has officially opened the second and largest stage of the highly anticipated Tiger Lane precinct. Spanning 2,000m2, Tiger Lane is a never-before-seen concept for the Capital and is...

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...

Ongoing sustainability and social consciousness are the future for food retailers. Customers are increasingly preferencing businesses that are environmentally and socially ethical in practice – and expect that they are...

The link between food and beverage and leisure and entertainment has never been stronger. And it looks like it’s a continuing trend. In his latest article (published in SCN’s CBD...

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...

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...

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...

Sydney’s hottest drinking and dining destination – and new home of Kylie Kwong and Matt Whiley – is now welcoming food and drink lovers to Redfern. A stone’s throw from...

Melbourne’s Burwood Brickworks officially unveiled its dining precinct Eat Street today, welcoming guests to the neighbourhood food space with a colourful and diverse range of dining and dessert venues including...

Brisbane’s iconic riverfront dining destination welcomes two new venues in time for Christmas. COPPA and Cha Cha Char Steak and Lobster will open at Eagle Street Pier in December. To...

In part one of this series, Francis Loughran discussed the customer’s timeless desire and appreciation of quality food and service and how this is the platform from which to drive...

In part one of Future Food’s Future Series, Francis Loughran discusses the proposition that successful and profitable food and hospitality venues do not just happen, they are in fact the...

Cockburn Gateway Shopping City is proud to be the first shopping centre in Australia with multiple retailers awarded FoodSafe certification. The City of Cockburn recently presented the FoodSafe Certified Certificates...

Walker Corporation’s Parramatta Square outdoor dining precinct opened last week, setting a new benchmark in dining for the growing CBD of Parramatta. The food and beverage precinct sees some of...

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,...

Francis Loughran says the ‘mall’ is changing. So much so, in fact, that in the future we might not even call it a ‘mall’ at all. At SCN, we can’t...

With the recent announcement from the Victorian government of a long and slow timeline to reopening, the states food and hospitality industry has been left with more questions than answers....

In the second instalment of this two-part article (part one published last week), Francis Loughran of Future Food, explores the big issues facing the hospitality industry as it struggles to...

Australia’s hospitality industry is in a state of disaster. From the morning coffee to the late-night cocktail; our favourite Sunday brunch to the working weekday lunch; every business in the...

In part one of this series, Francis Loughran of Future Food discussed how flexibility must be the foundation from which to develop future-focused food and beverage (F&B) strategies. In part...

This week, as Melbourne heads into stage 4 lockdown, non-essential retail closes and supermarkets once again feel the brunt of panic-shoppers, Francis Loughran of Future Food examines how F&B has been...

Food courts are likely never to be the same again. What’s the future? The ‘street restaurants’ – those outside shopping centres – have adapted; they’ve embraced take-away, reconfigured their seating...

In his regular column for Shopping Centre News, Francis Loughran of Future Food discusses some of the current challenges facing our industry and how food operators should use this next-normal...