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As your retail team arms itself for a post-pandemic recovery, it might want to consider loosening its bevvy rules if it can.
Encouraging shoppers to sip on a frosty margarita while they shop is either a great placemaking idea or trouble waiting to happen. You'll have to be the judge if the concept is even an option in your market. One thing's for sure: It's working f[...]
Customer Service, Food & Beverage
Pandemic-mindful placemaking: There’s a food service for that at Selfridges.
Food seems to be the most direct way to shoppers' hearts these days and the logical retail category on which to focus marketing efforts to rebuild traffic and revive that "third place." Selfridges (London, UK) has a strategy for that. While mos[...]
Christophe Gernigon might have just saved the restaurant dining room.
Last week, we told you about an American inn that decided to use poshly styled mannequins to fill half its restaurant dining room to abide social distancing rules. If your center's eateries would rather stick to humans but still wish to strive [...]
The Inn at Little Washington gets creative as its sets to reopen its dining room safely.
If you think that dining next to a couple of mannequins is a bit creepy, consider the upside: You get to eat out. The Inn at Little Washington in Virginia (USA) will be testing that concept in its restaurant when it reopens on May 29. It's not [...]
Quartier DOX30’s marketers are proficient at speaking movie binge-watchers’ language.
What do Ratatouille, Julie & Julia, and Marie Antoinette have in common? These movies all feature main characters who are crazy about food—dreaming up recipes, perfecting their cooking techniques, and savoring every last decadent morsel. Seei[...]
Mediamatic ETEN’s eye-catching greenhouse dining pods are proving popular with foodies hungry for local fare.
Like it or not, this concept of lower density dining destinations might be the most attractive to consumers for a while. It isn't always easy to reconfigure food courts, dining halls, and patios, but a little ingenuity and out-of-the-box sourci[...]
A word searching game is luring consumers out of their kitchens and into coffee shops.
Same old, same old—people need coffee. Where they are getting it right now is something that retailers and shopping centers can't leave to chance. If consumers are going to still grab their java to go instead of brewing it at home, there bett[...]
This event takes inspiration from drive-ins, but traffic will be moving steadily.
Caruso is adapting fast to distance retailing, beginning with the services that are available to its centers' customers. At The Grove in Los Angeles, that's taking the form of a Curbside Concierge station.
Shoppers are able to browse online [...]
Customer Service, Food & Beverage, Services
Wembley Park Market has a new service that encourages shoppers to help sustain independent businesses close to home.
A year after opening its doors north-west of London (UK), Wembley Park Market had to rethink its business model and figure out a way to continue to support local independent traders and merchants. The brainstorming led to the only logical place[...]
A mall team sets the table and puts special events on the menu to make sure guests do show up.
Build it and they will come, or head to the competition, or order online for home delivery. That's the new reality for F&B destinations so one Aussie commercial real estate team came up with a few more incentives to drive its shopper traffic.
