For those that can't cook, deciding what to eat once meant choosing between a restaurant or a microwave meal. Enter the meal kit; ingredients are delivered with instructions on how to cook a perfect dish. By helping people rediscover the joy of cooking, this sector is on track to be worth $5 billion.

In China, IKEA is a furniture-filled theme park where people are welcome to spend an entire day – even if they don’t buy anything. The Swedish furniture store has adapted to the nuances of Chinese shopping - but will it be successful?

Cafés provide the perfect grey area between home and work, but the ongoing pressure to buy more coffee or get out can be distracting and uncomfortable. Enter Russian 'anti-café' Ziferblat, where it's impossible to outstay your welcome.

The average worker spends three times longer working and commuting than they do with their family, and their hectic work schedules and busy lifestyles are now affecting eating habits, too. New research has revealed that the average Brit eats ten of their 21 weekly meals alone.