Innovative wine glass by Alvaro Uribe

20-12-2010

Designer Alvaro Uribe has designed a wine glass. The glass is introduced at the Tipsy Wineglass Conceot Testing at the MOMA in San Francisco. Good wine is tested by his look, smell and taste. This glass’s head tips forward, to give acces to the best qualities of the wine.

Check-in through Foursquare

15-12-2010

Aloft Hotel has made it possible for guests to check in with Foursquare. They have a special website where Foursquare guests can see the next promotions and also read reviews from previous guests. Guests who did book a room before January 18 (2011) at Aloft by Foursquare, received 20 percent discount at the bar of the hotel.

Tweets for treets

15-12-2010

Christmas twitter action: between 11 and 23 December, residents of U.S. cities New York and Los Angeles could earn different sweets Delivery. To join tweeps had to retweet the tweets from the Magnolia Bakery. Each tenth retweet received a treet, like cheesecake, fudge brownies or cookies delivered at home.

Hotel Daaldersplaats in Sneek, Friesland, The Netherlands

13-12-2010

Hotel Daaldersplaats Sneek, Friesland, The Netherlands uses social media. In an inspiring movie they show how they do it and they do encourage their guests to do the same!  in the hospitality industry use different social media.

 

Google is about to serve the restaurant guests

12-12-2010

Google wants to serve information to users without them searching for something, but based on their browsing or location profile, “contextual discovery”. For example: If you’re in a restaurant, Google can, based on the location of your mobile, provide you automatically a message with a link to the menu, along with indications of what your friends like to eat. Coming in 2011.

 

New Heineken bottle

10-12-2010

Heineken will soon introduce a new bottle. The new bottle will get a slightly longer neck with a slight indentation where the name Heineken vertically is shown. The bottles serve as black lights in the dark.

 

Art on roasted bread

1-12-2010

Nathan Wyburn, a young artist from Ebbw Vale in Wales, has created some remarkable works of art. Using jam and syrup, he made several portraits of famous people on toasted bread. His latest artwork hangs on the outside of the recently opened Costa Coffee in the UK.

Skype with wine makers

1-12-2010

The Dalles Grande Winery offers wine advice through Skype. Through Skype people can ask questions and advice on which wine best suits the occasion or their meal. Consumers who want skype for 10 minutes, have to buy a minimum of three bottles of wine.

Dr. Oetker pop-up pizzastores

30-11-2010

In Amsterdam, Amstelveen, Rotterdam and Groningen Dr. Oetker temporary opend Italian ‘Tradizionale’ stores. In these pop-up stores, Dr. Oetker’s new brick oven Tradizionale pizza are introduced. In these stores dr. Oetker want to offer customers the experience that comes with the new pizza. The brick oven pizza is available at the pop-up stores in two flavors: Speciale and tuna.

Crowdsourced restaurant in 90 days

30-11-2010

A bunch of creative people from Lansing, Michigan aim to give a restaurant a complete makeover within 90 days. Through crowdsourcing on social networks, they hope to get as many ideas as possible about the interior, the facade, color and menu. Every week they post online polls to determine the final concept of the restaurant.

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