What a year! A quick, end of year, flick through notebooks, meeting minutes and diary entries, summarises what an extraordinary year it’s been across the foodservice market in the UK. Another year of market growth in the out of home eating sector, with sales nudging £90 billion and forecast to continue to rise to £94 […]
Looking at that former department store, unused basement space, empty car park or warehouse and thinking about how it could be better utilised. Thinking of building or developing a Food Hall? Yeah, you and every other landlord in the town are thinking the same thing. I am not saying don’t do it, but I am […]
From H&M to Gucci, fashion retailers are adding food elements like cafés, restaurants and seasonal pop-ups to bring more consumers to their stores. Foodservice is playing a bigger role than ever in the success of physical retail. 40% of visitors base their choice of shopping centre on the dining options available (ECE), and the same […]
Article originally published by MCA. When restaurants are hit with rising food costs, staff wages, business rates and rents, resentment towards landlords inevitably rises. Restaurant businesses need a break, and have few other places to look – the economics of international supply chains are too nebulous to influence, it is hard to begrudge employees a […]
In a world where foodservice is simultaneously becoming to look oversupplied on the high street and lacking imagination in hotels, we are often tasked with creating the best F&B strategies for our hotel clients. This is the reason I joined our Hotels and Hospitality JLL colleagues at the International Hotels Investment Conference (IHIF 2018) this […]
It has been a great couple of days talking to some of our existing Clients, colleagues, friends and meeting new ones as well. It did however mean that I had to wait till late on Thursday afternoon to complete the article as I wanted to share with you some of the opinions from the panel […]
I was recently at Euston Station in London, waiting for my train to take me to REVO in Liverpool. As usual, I’d given myself a bit of ‘wiggle’ room to allow for any travel disruptions so had a good hour of free time to have a look around. At the main entrance, unit hoardings announced […]
The Oxford English Dictionary defines hospitality as: “the friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers”. Lately, I feel as though the presence of “friendly” and “generous” has been somewhat lost in the hospitality industry. Friendliness has been replaced by strict guidelines that dictate behavior, forced satisfactory checks with the same robotic […]
The continued rise of Food Halls is something we are monitoring across the world. In Europe, the concept is renowned for places such as Mercado di Ribeiro (Lisbon), Markthal (Rotterdam), Eataly (Milan) and Mathallen (Oslo) to name a few. In the US, the rise of the Food Hall concept is all over the press at […]
At JLL Foodservice Consulting we spend our days travelling the globe to review the foodservice offer in all kinds of developments. This gives us a unique take on the latest food trends – something that our clients often refer to us for. After all, who doesn’t love to know about the latest openings, cuisines and […]
Since I joined JLL I have been on a crusade to galvanise hotelier’s attitude towards foodservice. I was lucky enough to have the chance to join the rest of our JLL family at IHIF in Berlin, the largest hotel investor conference of the year where I concluded on two key facts. Hoteliers either get foodservice […]
The day before the official start of MAPIC Italy, I was lucky to be part of an ‘elite’ party given a guided tour of the great and good of Milanese foodservice. JLL Foodservice Consulting are the exclusive Foodservice Partner to MAPIC and MAPIC Italy and, on the eve of the first F&B Retail Summit, a […]
As the exclusive (and very proud) Foodservice Partner to MAPIC and MAPIC Italy, JLL Foodservice Consulting held the first of the MAPIC ‘Unplugged’ events on the rooftop of Aqua Nueva in central London last night. The ‘Unplugged’ event kicked off the year long focus of Food and Beverage leading up to the 1st F&B Retail […]
I have spent a large amount of time on planes recently, supporting the wider JLL business and ICSC on the launch of the research on Food and Beverage and its impact in shopping centres. You can download the report here. First of all I found myself in Austin Texas, participating in the “Food for Thought” […]
Yes, this is a piece on sustainability, but don’t worry. I won’t lecture you with UN stats that 800 million people worldwide suffer from malnutrition whilst globally we waste around a third of all food produce. Instead, I would like to talk about taking away the traditional menu and cooking with what’s considered food waste. […]
I’ve been at the IHIF, in Berlin today. I am here for the duration, enjoying the buzz of The International Hotel investment Forum. Lots of suits, lots of stands and lots and lots of serious people. Our company, has a brilliant Hotels and Hospitality business which we are all rightly very proud of. They are […]
