The Middle East Food Forum is a one-day conference that brings together food service business owners, operators, and entrepreneurs. The event features presentations, panel discussions, and workshops on key industry trends, challenges, and opportunities. Attendees can learn strategies for starting, sustaining, growing or transforming an F&B business. Speakers include experts from major hotel brands, restaurant companies, and government. The agenda covers topics such as cash flow management, food safety standards, concepts and menu innovation, franchising, and marketing. The conference aims to help participants stay competitive and find new ideas through learning and networking.
Businesses cannot survive long time without innovation with single product. Student Biryani lose their focus on product development and R&D although they offers variety of dishes but customers think only biryani is good item in the menu most of customers comes to eat biryani. Student Biryani has strong chain of franchises, many of franchises not follow the SOPs and policy, sometime the size and weight of the meat and the quantity of rice are not proper, tables are not clean, washrooms are dirty, many franchises sealed due to unhygienic food supply. Food business success depends on taste, quality, reasonable price and good service.
Attentive and well-mannered staff play vital role in customer satisfaction. Training and development Increases productivity of workers.
COVID-19 has changed everything the way of business has been shift. Online and home delivery order increases. Student Biryani have centralized call center, cloud kitchen is a good opportunity in this pandemic situation.
Social Media Marketing Strategy @ Kentucky Fried Chicken- Customer Service & ...Rajesh Prabhakar
Kentucky Fried Chicken has been actively and aggressively using the various social media platforms to promote their menu offerings, promotions, contests, new product launches and most importantly focusing on the freshness and juiciness of their chicken compared to its competitors.
Old Town White Coffee-A Malaysian made coffee in crisisNuurMohamadFirdaus
We are from EMBA UITM performed marketing analysis case study for Old Town White Coffee business especially Cafe or Restaurant operation that are severely impacted as the results of changing customers behaviour due to Pandemic COVID-19. Our team used strategic marketing tool such as SWOT, TOWS MATRIX etc. deep dive into issues confronted by them. We proposed few solutions from the issues that we identified so that Old Town White Coffee team can revisit their action plan during and post pandemic Covid-19 for their business sustainability.
Businesses cannot survive long time without innovation with single product. Student Biryani lose their focus on product development and R&D although they offers variety of dishes but customers think only biryani is good item in the menu most of customers comes to eat biryani. Student Biryani has strong chain of franchises, many of franchises not follow the SOPs and policy, sometime the size and weight of the meat and the quantity of rice are not proper, tables are not clean, washrooms are dirty, many franchises sealed due to unhygienic food supply. Food business success depends on taste, quality, reasonable price and good service.
Attentive and well-mannered staff play vital role in customer satisfaction. Training and development Increases productivity of workers.
COVID-19 has changed everything the way of business has been shift. Online and home delivery order increases. Student Biryani have centralized call center, cloud kitchen is a good opportunity in this pandemic situation.
Social Media Marketing Strategy @ Kentucky Fried Chicken- Customer Service & ...Rajesh Prabhakar
Kentucky Fried Chicken has been actively and aggressively using the various social media platforms to promote their menu offerings, promotions, contests, new product launches and most importantly focusing on the freshness and juiciness of their chicken compared to its competitors.
Old Town White Coffee-A Malaysian made coffee in crisisNuurMohamadFirdaus
We are from EMBA UITM performed marketing analysis case study for Old Town White Coffee business especially Cafe or Restaurant operation that are severely impacted as the results of changing customers behaviour due to Pandemic COVID-19. Our team used strategic marketing tool such as SWOT, TOWS MATRIX etc. deep dive into issues confronted by them. We proposed few solutions from the issues that we identified so that Old Town White Coffee team can revisit their action plan during and post pandemic Covid-19 for their business sustainability.
Aaron Allen & Associates, a global restaurant consultancy, shares some of their recent projects and past experience. The firm has represented clients spanning 6 continents and over 100 countries and has also worked extensively in the Middle East.
PANDEY_CAFE will be the only restaurant among all the competition which focuses the entire menu on healthy and low-fat cooking ,
VISION:- TO BE AMONG THE CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE LEADER IN THE CAFE MARKET.
STRATEGY:-keep PANDEY CAFE standards high and execute the concept so that word-of-mouth will be our main marketing force.
PRODUCT:-The products being offered at PANDEY_CAFE are-a cosmopolitan flair, comfortable atmosphere, striking decor, entertainment, engaging clientele along with an international menu.
PANDEY_CAFE is located at Near Residential area as well as
National Airport .
ADDRESS/DESCRIPTION:-
->Aberdeen Bazaar ,Port Blair ,Andaman Nicobar Islands
PRABHAT PANDEY-Owner/Manager
The McDonald's Corporation is one of the largest hamburger and fast food retailers across the globe. Experts calculate that they serve nearly 60 million customers every day and have around 30,000 restaurants and franchises in more than 100 countries. It is an incredibly successful brand, and its logos and slogans are recognized across the world.
As a South African there is a handful of things you miss when you live abroad and the
greatest pride overcomes you when you stumble upon a product from your mother
country, and one of those is our Spur restaurants. Some critics may argue that Allen
Ambor was lucky and that the market was just ready for a steak house when he
opened up. This might be true but over the years many new comers entered the
market just to disappear or to come second to The Spur.
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-WORDS IN EDGEWISE: You can probably guess which candidate dominated the conversation. But you might be surprised at who else has been talked about most.
-BAD, BAD MOOD: We will identify the only candidate for whom mentions with positive sentiments outnumbered those with negative sentiments.
-THE NEW SPIN ROOM: We will display the top three retweets from each party after both debates, and the top retweet from each of the Republican candidates.
-BELTWAY DIFFERENCES: We will distinguish between candidates who got more attention in mainstream than in social media, and vice versa.
-RATINGS: And, as is our custom, we will evaluate how well each candidate’s campaign garnered and leveraged public echoes of what they said during the time period on our scale of 1 to 11.
Aaron Allen & Associates, a global restaurant consultancy, shares some of their recent projects and past experience. The firm has represented clients spanning 6 continents and over 100 countries and has also worked extensively in the Middle East.
PANDEY_CAFE will be the only restaurant among all the competition which focuses the entire menu on healthy and low-fat cooking ,
VISION:- TO BE AMONG THE CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE LEADER IN THE CAFE MARKET.
STRATEGY:-keep PANDEY CAFE standards high and execute the concept so that word-of-mouth will be our main marketing force.
PRODUCT:-The products being offered at PANDEY_CAFE are-a cosmopolitan flair, comfortable atmosphere, striking decor, entertainment, engaging clientele along with an international menu.
PANDEY_CAFE is located at Near Residential area as well as
National Airport .
ADDRESS/DESCRIPTION:-
->Aberdeen Bazaar ,Port Blair ,Andaman Nicobar Islands
PRABHAT PANDEY-Owner/Manager
The McDonald's Corporation is one of the largest hamburger and fast food retailers across the globe. Experts calculate that they serve nearly 60 million customers every day and have around 30,000 restaurants and franchises in more than 100 countries. It is an incredibly successful brand, and its logos and slogans are recognized across the world.
As a South African there is a handful of things you miss when you live abroad and the
greatest pride overcomes you when you stumble upon a product from your mother
country, and one of those is our Spur restaurants. Some critics may argue that Allen
Ambor was lucky and that the market was just ready for a steak house when he
opened up. This might be true but over the years many new comers entered the
market just to disappear or to come second to The Spur.
PEORIA Report 3: The GOP Debates Begin, Late Summer 2015GSPMgwu
-WORDS IN EDGEWISE: You can probably guess which candidate dominated the conversation. But you might be surprised at who else has been talked about most.
-BAD, BAD MOOD: We will identify the only candidate for whom mentions with positive sentiments outnumbered those with negative sentiments.
-THE NEW SPIN ROOM: We will display the top three retweets from each party after both debates, and the top retweet from each of the Republican candidates.
-BELTWAY DIFFERENCES: We will distinguish between candidates who got more attention in mainstream than in social media, and vice versa.
-RATINGS: And, as is our custom, we will evaluate how well each candidate’s campaign garnered and leveraged public echoes of what they said during the time period on our scale of 1 to 11.
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1. THE ESSENTIAL MEETING
PLACE FOR THE FOOD
SERVICE INDUSTRY
Panel Discussions
Keynotes
Masterclasses
Networking Meet
2. The Middle East Food Forum is the
essential meeting place for food service busi-
ness owners and operators, including aspiring
and established entrepreneurs to engage with
industry experts, address concerns, find new
ideas and inspiration. The learning and
networking event features presentations,
panel discussions and workshops, offering
unique opportunities to share experiences,
upgrade skills, build valuable connections,
and explore ways to start, sustain, grow, or
transform any F&B business.
About us
www.middleeastfoodforum.com
3. Why attend
The Middle East Food Forum is the
first-of-its-kind conference in the Middle East region
aimed at addressing the biggest challenges faced by
both aspiring and established restaurant entrepre-
neurs. Hear from industry experts, peers, and ven-
dors in the food service and hospitality industry
about ‘what to do’ and ‘what not to do’ in order to
stay competitive in the business. Get inspired and
learn from both success and failure stories and intro-
duce innovative practices to your business with a
reinvigorated entrepreneurial spirit.
www.middleeastfoodforum.com
5. MORNING
MORNING 9.15 am : Introduction and welcome speech - Vishal Pandey, Founder,
Data On-A-Plate and Middle East Food Forum
10.45 - 11.00 am : Tea/coffee break
9.30 - 10.00 am : Keynote - Key trends shaping the food service
industry - Stefan Breg, Director F&B, Starwood Middle East
10.10 - 10.45 am : Masterclass - How cash flow management is critical
to business success - Mike Hoff, Founder & CEO, Mike Hoff Consulting FZ LLC
11.00 - 11.20 am : Food safety in Dubai: Shaping up for the future -
Bobby Krishna, Specialist in Food Inspection Section, Dubai Municipality
11.25 - 12.05 pm : Panel discussion - The pain points of restaurant
expansion - Duncan Fraser-Smith, Founding Partner, Cutting Edge Agency ; Ian Ohan,
Founder & CEO, Freedom Pizza ; Vinay Lall, Managing Director, Baldwin Lall and
Associates ; Vinay Verma, Owner, Kwality Restaurant
12.10 - 12.45 pm : Masterclass - Legal aspect of leasing - Majdel S. Musa,
Senior Legal Consultant, Durkin & Co
• GCC food service industry market outlook 2016-2020: Factors driving growth
• Emerging F&B destinations and restaurant formats: Malls vs Hotels vs free-
standing restaurants – who’s wining the battle for share of stomach?
• Changing food consumption patterns
• Impact of falling oil prices, rising food imports, market saturation
• How to accelerate the way cash moves into your business
• How to maximize the labour efficiency in the business
• How to focus on the higher profitable areas of the business
• A look at Dubai Municipality’s new programs to enhance food safety
• Food safety standards: focused and result oriented inspections and
transparency that would empower consumers to make better choices
• Acquiring the right locations and battling increasing rents
• Talent acquisition and retention
• Achieving supply chain and multichannel efficiency
• Essentials terms of leasing agreement
• Dubai tenancy laws
• Landlord-tenant dispute resolution
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8.30 am : Registration
12.50 - 01.10 pm : Re-imagining food service in UAE’s fast evolving F&B
landscape - Shafeena Yusuff Ali, CEO, Tablez The Food Company
6. AFTERNOON
2.00 pm - 2.40 pm : Panel discussion - Innovating concepts, menu, and customer
experience - Gaurav Tandon, Managing Director, K Kompany ; Chef Bobby Kapoor, Chef Partner,
Cartalyst Solutions ; Chef Uwe Micheel, Director of Kitchens, Radisson Blu Dubai Deira Creek ; Chef
Mariano Andres, General Manager (F&B Division), Wafi ; Chef Marta Yanci, Owner, Marta’s Kitchen
and Workshop ; Chef Helen Morris, Senior Lecturer, Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management
2.45 - 3.25 pm : Panel discussion - Connecting with customers emotionally and
creating brand ambassadors - Gaurav Tandon, Managing Director, K Kompany ; Prakash
Menon, Partner – Leadership Transitioning, Stanton Chase Middle East ; Sajith Ansar, Founder &
CEO, Ideaspice ; Kamal Bhatia, Managing Director, Wide Systems & IFH Institute of Hospitality ; Suraj
Gill, Head of Media Sales, Zomato
4.35 - 5.10 pm : Masterclass – Influencing consumer choices - Martin C. Kubler FIH,
CEO and Chief Cook & Bottle Washer, IConsulthotels
3.50 - 4.30 pm : Panel Discussion – Franchising and Internationalization - Murad
Alnasur, Managing Director, Restonalysis ; Hadi Al Hakim, Partner & CEO, International Trading
Franchises ; Abdul Kader Saadi, Managing Director, Glee Hospitality ; Naveed Dowlatshahi, Vice
President – Food & Beverage, Ilyas & Mustafa Galadari Group
3.30 pm - 3.50 pm - Tea/coffee break
• What customers want and how you can exceed their expectations
• How customer feedback can make or break your restaurant
• How innovative concepts and menu drives customers into restaurants
• When is the right time to franchise your restaurant business?
• What’s the best route for the expansion of homegrown brands?
• Factors to consider before franchising your restaurant business?
• The evolution of marketing and the tools making it possible to reach your
target customers
• Turn your employees into brand marketers
• What does your 2016 marketing budget look like?
• How to create a strong connection between the brand and the customer –
building brands on customer service
• Why brands must evolve and rebrand to stay relevant
• Why brand localization matters – understanding local customer preferences
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8. Bobby Krishna
Food Studies and
Planning Specialist,
Dubai Municipality
SPEAKERS An expert speaker faculty featuring over 24
industry leaders will participate in the Middle East
Food Forum 2016.
Stefan Breg
Director, F&B. Europe,
Africa & Middle East
Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Worldwide, Inc.
Chef Helen Morris
Senior Lecturer,
Emirates Academy
of Hospitality
Management
Majdel S. Musa
Managing Director,
Maj Consultants
Vinay Lall
Managing Director,
Baldwin Lall &
Associates
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Kamal Bhatia
Managing Director,
Wide Computer
Systems and IFH
MEA
Abdul Kader Saadi
Managing Director
and Owner, Glee
Hospitality Solutions
Chef Bobby Kapoor
Advisor, Developer
and Innovator
Gaurav Tandon
Entrepreneur and
Food critic
Vinay Varma
Managing Director,
The Royal Orchid
Group of Restaurants,
Abu Dhabi
Mike Hoff
CEO,
Mike Hoff Consulting
Formerly: GM
Starbucks Middle East
Prakash Menon
Partner, Stanton
Chase
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Sajith Ansar
CEO,
Idea Spice Design
Martin Kumbler
CEO,
Iconsulthotels
Ian Ohan
Founder,
Freedom Pizza
Chef Marta Yanci
Owner and founder,
Marta’s Kitchen
Chef Uwe Micheel
Director of Kitchens,
Radisson Blu Hotel,
Dubai Deira Creek
Chef Mariano Andrés
General Manager,
F&B Division,
Wafi Restaurants
Suraj Gill
Head of Media
Sales, Zomato
Naveed Dowlatshahi
Vice President - Food
& Beverage, City of
Arabia, Ilyas & Mustafa
Galadari Group
Murad Alnasur
Managing Director,
Restonalysis
Shafeena Yusuff Ali
CEO, Tablez Food
Company LLC
Duncan Fraser-Smith
Founder / Managing
Director, The Cutting
Edge Hospitality
Agency FZ LLC
Hadi Al Hakim
Partner and CEO,
International Trading
Franchises
10. Event date and timings:
3rd May 2016; 8.30 am to 5.30 pm
Venue:
Plaza Ballroom, Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Deira Creek
Delegate pricing for the Middle East Food Forum 2016:
US$ 136, per delegate – Standard pricing
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