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 […]
This is the second in a series of blog posts from JLL that will explore the rising importance of food and beverage (F&B) in retail place-making, the implications for retail property owners, as well as delving into the future challenges facing the industry as explored in the 2017 ICSC ‘Successful integration of F&B within retail […]
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 rising importance of food and beverage (F&B) in retail place-making has been well-documented over recent years. Everywhere you look more, and better, food offerings are cropping up in shopping centres and retail schemes across the world. This is the first in a series of blog posts from JLL that will explore some of the […]
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 […]
