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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
First published in ACROSS – February 2017 So, we have arrived in 2017, the world is changing again and this year promises to be one of the most “interesting” for a long, long time. I am going to avoid completely any political comment, as I cannot even begin to imagine how things will play out, […]
For over 40 years I have been working in the foodservice industry, and for the last 3 decades I have been advising property developers, landlords and building owners and occupiers on “food”. The business has grown from a one man band to a highly respected part of the JLL Family and along with my incredible […]
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. […]
A broad set of economic, demographic and technological trends are converging to force changes in the way that we need to think about the future of retail – and retail space in particular. Perhaps the most profound development that we have seen in the retail world – and elsewhere – is the impact of digital […]
As Jones Lang LaSalle noted in our recent report ‘London’s West End: Review and Outlook’, London is now arguably the restaurant capital of the world, with Core West End at its epicentre. London’s dining industry is in good health; in a recent Zagat survey, 40% of diners claimed that London’s dining scene is better today […]
