Next up in our speaker Q&A series is Peter Mayley, business manager at independent sandwich bar La Baguetterie, in Reading. He’ll be appearing alongside Maurice Abboudi (K10 Restaurants), Jonathan Jowett (Greggs) and Jim Winship from the British Sandwich & Food to Go Association discussing some of the biggest issues and ‘challenges of today’s marketplace’.
Meet Matt Cundrick, head of convenience format & FTG at leading neighbourhood retailer McColl’s, which operates around 1,500 convenience stores across England, Wales and Scotland. A lunch! show regular (he calls it ‘vital’ for sourcing tomorrow’s bestsellers), he’ll be making his speaker debut on opening day sharing top tips for making the most of your POS data and customer insights to drive future growth.
Hannah Squirrell is customer director at Greggs. With 2,000 shops around the UK, and many more in the pipeline, Greggs is a major (and much admired) player in the food-to-go market – winning plaudits for its food quality, convenient locations, customer engagement, and value for money. In her exclusive lunch! Keynote, Hannah will be discussing the ‘recent brand journey’, and how the bakery giant has stayed true to itself while broadening its appeal to attract new customers (10.45am, Friday 20 September).
Our next speaker Q&A features Gavin Rothwell, head of food-to-go and retail safaris / senior retail insights manager at IGD. He’ll be sharing data from across IGD’s global insights programme, highlighting some of the latest and ‘best examples’ of great food-to-go innovations and trends.
It’s official – lunch! 2019 will feature its biggest ever Keynote line-up. With new names confirmed from Starbucks, Greggs, Holland & Barrett, FCB Coffee, Sodexo, Elior, LEON, Crussh, Tortilla, Chilango, Pure, Sourced Market, and KERB, there are now 55 speakers (and rising) looking forward to sharing exclusive insights at the UK’s biggest food-to-go trade show next month, on 19-20 September, at ExCeL London.
Former Bill’s MD, Scott Macdonald is another new speaker for 2019. In his lunch! Keynote, he’ll be revealing what’s next for Sourced Market — outlining some of the ‘much needed’ changes the artisan deli, retail and dining brand has already made and what’s yet to come (2.15pm, 20 September in Keynote Theatre 1).
Whether our tribe is #vegan, #fitspo or #coffeelover, increasingly what we eat is becoming tied up in our culture, personal brand and our social media feed. In her Keynote at lunch!, Nicola Morris, MD – Corporate Services at Sodexo, will explore the food trends behind the tribes and explain how they’re using consumer insight to drive innovation and challenge competition from the catering industry, the high street and new disruptors (1.45pm, Friday 20 September).
Hannah McKay, head of food & beverages UK & Ireland at Caffè Nero, highly recommends lunch!, calling it a key ‘date in the diary for the food-to-go and the coffee shop sector’. She’s back at the show for 2019, hosting a must-attend Keynote in the new Coffee Shop Keynotes Theatre at 2.30pm on Friday 20 September.
Coffee shop operators looking for the inside track on what key trends will be shaping the food-to-go market in the years ahead, will find plenty of juicy insights at lunch!. Katherine Prowse, insights manager at MCA Insights and HIM, will be discussing ‘The Rise of Coffee Shops’ and their secrets of success. Providing an in-depth look at how coffee shop operators are looking beyond the coffee cup to maintain competitive advantage (10.30am, Friday 20 September).
Our next Q&A features Adnan Karim, UK managing director at Wayne’s Coffee – one of Scandinavia’s leading eco coffee shop chains. With two stores now established and another six on the way, he’s been busy introducing Wayne’s Coffee and the Swedish Fika concept to the UK market.
