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James Hacon’s AI-generated restaurant experiment explores how AI can rapidly create concepts, menus, and branding while highlighting human c

Discover the differences between running restaurants & hotels, and the challenges hoteliers face in running successful restaurants.

Explore how hotel owners can leverage third-party F&B agreements to enhance asset value, drive revenue, and improve the guest experience.

Explore the challenges of restaurant growth and scaling a brand, Discover key strategies for sustainable success in multi-site restaurants.

Supermarkets and, increasingly, convenience stores move aggressively to capture the UK lunch trade with their meal deals

It’s no secret that the combined impacts of COVID-19 and Brexit led to a notable brain drain, with experienced leaders and talent leaving...

Think Hospitality Managing Partner, James Hacon takes to the Future Hospitality Investment Stage to chair a panel on growing a successful...

Think Hospitality Managing Partner, James Hacon takes to the Future Hospitality Investment Stage in Abu Dhabi to chair a panel on the...

James Hacon, Managing Partner at Think Hospitality presents a view on how robotics and technology will define the future of the...

Think Hospitality Managing Partner, James Hacon takes to the Future Hospitality Investment Stage to chair a panel on entering the Saudi...

Think Hospitality founder & managing partner, James Hacon interviews Sisban Managing Director, Tariq al Tuwaijry about the vision of...

Restaurant brands are increasingly ripping up the rule book of just delivering traditional hospitality in-venue and at the table, to...

In the world of restaurants, the United States have long ruled at internationalisation. Many wrongly think McDonald’s was the first...

Last week I chaired 25 sessions over 5 days at the HoReCa Academy, part of Ambiente, one of the largest consumer goods trade fairs in the...

Adoption of customer-facing restaurant technology skyrocketed in during covid, as you’d expect given the unique circumstances. The legacy...

It’s now a fortnight since we wrapped up the fifth edition of the Restaurant Marketer & Innovator (RMI) European Summit, which attracted...

In economically challenging periods like today, it’s easy to cut corners and throw values out of the window in the name of survival. A...

James Hacon, Partner at THINK Hospitality moderates a panel at the Future Hospitality Invesment Summit in Dubai discussing whether...

Think Hospitality share what restaurant and hospitality operators are doing to adapt to the coronavirus.

We are in unprecedented times with the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the travel and hospitality sector. Public health organisations and...

THINK Hospitality founder, James Hacon chairs a panel of operators at the Global Restaurant Investment Forum considering how changing...

THINK Hospitality partner, Heleri Rande chairs a panel at the Global Restaurant Investment Forum looking at how AI, robots and big data...

THINK Hospitality founder, James Hacon wraps up the Global Restaurant Investment Forum 2020 looking at what's important to investors and...

Heleri Rande and James Hacon from Think Hospitality were keynote speakers at the International Hospitality Conference 2020 held at the...

Speakers came from the biggest and best brands and agencies in the hospitality industry to RMI 2020 European Summit, here's James' round-up.

Here at THINK Hospitality Group HQ we’ve spent the void between Christmas and New Year wisely, thinking to the future. Here in this...

As the saying goes, you’re either growing or you’re dying. In uncertain times a lot of businesses talk about “taking stock” or...

Michael Ingemann gives advice on how to bring objectivity to decision-making through fact based analysis & constructive experimentation

With national Curry week upon us, Angela Malik traces the journey of the term ‘curry’ to understand its roots in the Brit culinary culture.

Strategy Director, Angela Malik shares why it's important to shift unconscious biases in the workplace alongside her top 'must dos'.

December is a vital month for the restaurant sector. We've done the research to help you understand what to concentrate on.

Food hall concepts have exploded in recent years. What was innovative in 2011 and on-trend in 2017 is now rapidly becoming ubiquitous in...

Our Managing Director, James Hacon, shares his ten takeaways from the Global Restaurant Investment Forum London Briefing, held at Bala...

James and Michael share the 5 ways to keep your business away from indecision and closer to success.

With hospitality retentions rate currently 10% lower than the U.K. average at 70%, the chef crisis is only worsening and making recruitment

The news that Amazon is investing in Deliveroo is not unexpected. James talks on how this will impact the hospitality industry.

In our Restaurant of the Future report we provide a view in to the next generation of restaurants. Ten top multi-disciplinary industry...

The turnover of talent in hospitality is higher than many other sectors. It’s not uncommon to see team members move on after just six or...

The legendary and outspoken Marco Pierre White in conversation with Think Hospitality Associate, Heleri Rande on everything from the...

Earlier this month a large delegation of British restaurateurs, investors, landlords and consultants crossed the North Sea to attend the...

THINK Hospitality's CEO, James Hacon interviews Martin Morales of Ceviche Family about introducing the first Peruvian restaurant concept...

The hospitality sector is very much a people business, from the front of house teams that adds values through great service, to the...

Our Managing Director James Hacon give his overview from Global Restaurant Investment Forum 2019.

Our Managing Director James Hacon give his round up of the key points from day one at GRIF 2019.

Our partner Michael Ingemann delivers a GRIF & THINK Hospitality original research round-up at the Global Restaurant Investment Forum in...

Our Managing Director James Hacon in converstion with Yossi Eliyahoo, Founder & Co-Owner, The Entourage Group on creating convertible...

Our Managing Director James Hacon in conversation with Adrian Cummins, Chief Executive of the Restaurants Association of Ireland and ...

THINK Hospitality James Hacon talks to senior executives of Yo Sushi, Wagamama & Yummy Pubs about restaurant & pub new product development.

Being an “entrepreneur” is something of a buzzword. A whole ecosystem has developed around it, with incubators, clubs and god knows how...

Our Managing Director, James Hacon provides a checklist of areas you should consider when building your sales and marketing team and...