Missing your favourite lunch spot? How food courts are emerging from the pandemic

Key Facts

• Adjacent to the Starbucks, a closed Marche’s is boarded up, but lines snake in front of McDonald’s and Jimmy The Greek, and the building’s property owner boasts of rising sales.
• Please try again The scene is a sign of the crossroads at which food courts have found themselves since the pandemic upended work and shopping habits and stubbornly high inflation and labour shortages began rankling consumers.
• “There is a place for the traditional food court … but what I think we’re going to start to see a lot more of going forward is a food experience that’s driven by … the wants and needs of the office worker.”
• “So many of the places I ate at before COVID are gone and it’s picking up, but it’s not what it used to be,” she said, as she tucked into a meal from Mean Bao’s Bay Adelaide Centre outpost.

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