Food Trends

Food Trends

Whatever happened to Sizzler? How Australians fell out of love with the ’90s phenomenon

The American buffet with upmarket ambitions was once a suburban novelty. And then it wasn’t. Sizzler just couldn’t keep up with how fast Australians were changing, experts say. It had the cheese toast, the all-you-can-eat salad bar, and the sizzling steaks that would have Aussie mouths watering come Friday night. Sizzler was a cultural phenomenon […]

Wendy’s Hamburgers Rolling out in Australia

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Wendy’s (hamburgers) is considering an aggressive roll out of stores around Australia. Will it work? Suzee Brain chews the fat on the topic with James Valentine on ABC Breakfast Radio

Cooking With(out) Gas: How to move to all-Electric F&B Precincts

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You could never operate an entire food court without gas. Or could you? Suzee Brain maintains you can; it’s a radical change but there’s nothing new in that. Radical changes have occurred before… SUZEE BRAINDirector,Titanium Food & Place Changes to the Six-Star Green Star rating systems to totally ban gas as an energy source in […]

HYBRID WORK Means Mini Guns Must Lift Their F&B Game

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COVID has changed us. More people are working from home and Australia is leading the world! 34% of Australian workers are ‘hybrid’ -more than in the US, UK and Canada. This means they’re spending more and more time near their local ‘Mini Gun’ centres. But their tastes haven’t changed -just their location. They want what […]