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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What does the future of retail look like? That’s always one of the big talking points when thousands of retail professionals get together. At the retail industry’s annual trade show MAPIC, held in Cannes, France, multiple conversations centred round the impact of rapidly evolving technology, the challenges of brand building in the digital age and […]
The positive mood at MAPIC really shone through many of the discussions and presentations that Jones Lang LaSalle was part of over the course of the week. We saw investor interest returning strongly, with some areas, notably Southern Europe, that have been off the radar for the last few years getting renewed attention from investors. […]