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...
Author - Suzee Brain
Suzee has a stunning track record of both owning and managing super
successful food operations from an early age. Suzee held her first senior
management role before she turned 21 and worked in senior management roles in hotel and commercial catering until she was 30.
At 30, she started her own cafe chain called Sydney Eats and in 2008 her
cafe called 92 Degrees won Cafe of the Year.
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, dead...
Food & Beverage (F&B) has been and will continue to be impacted enormously. Many restaurants, cafés, food court operators and specialised food outlets...
Food Halls are changing as fast as mobile phones do! They used to be just a simple area with various fresh food outlets; now they are a mix of fresh and fast...
Talk about disruption and the need for innovation. The Little Gun category has never been under so much pressure. Caught between the convenience of the...
CBD food and beverage has exploded this decade as the millennials joined with Gen Y to dominate the workplace. With marriages and mortgages an impossible dream...
Celebrating its 10th anniversary year, Suzee Brain, takes a look back at the trends predicted by B&P for the shopping centre industry in relation to food...
Kerry Packer and Food Consulting? Not as far-fetched as you might think. It seems that the great man knew a lot about how we eat. Suzee Brain recounts her time...
The iGeners are here and in force – they’ve joined the Millennials and, more to the point, they’re influencing our centres. iGeners don’t remember a time...
If the MAT is OK but the MAT/m2 is low, usually it’s a no-brainer. Cut down the size of the shop, create another one. The retailer wins because they have...
With food catering sales up by 6.8% YTD according to ABS Retail Trade data for August 2017, many owners of sub-regional-sized centres are keen to add...
Like Bernard Salt, our nation’s most popular demographer, the analysts at B&P have been as excited as kids on Christmas Eve awaiting the release of the 2016...
Currently, between Sydney and Melbourne CBD alone, there are more than 3,700 registered food businesses taking up ~900,000m2 of GLA. More than one out of every...
As the dust settles on another holiday season, we begin the year, as usual, with a comprehensive review of the last 12 months' consulting work and analysis of...
