Mom tell me a story and I will get a free meal

28-1-2013

Only this week during the National Storytelling Week family restaurant Giraffe in London presents ‘Tell Us A Story’. Kids get free meals when they bring a book and their parents, grandparents or carers. Simply bring the kids to the restaurant untill 5pm, read them a story and the kids get a free meal when the adult orders a main course.

Watching a movie with coloured popcorn of fruit

28-1-2013

Pathé a chain of cinema’s, is testing a couple of new products. They now serve convenience fruit from the brand Chiquita and various flavors of popcorn in a rainbow presentation. While watching the movie, one can try 4 flavors of popcorn for € 7,50. Pathé does also rollout a selfservice concept Drinks & Bites.

Serve game at wood

25-1-2013

The First Impression shop sells different kind of wooden plates. When you serve game, these plates are an assest to the dish. They’re light of weight and they can be cleaned in a dishwasher.

Der Feinschmecker app

24-1-2013

The magazine DER FEINSCHMECKER launched a new restaurant app with the best restaurants of Germany. The app is always actual: openings, closings and for example the switches of chefs are updated daily.

Wondercool Copenhagen

23-1-2013

Gastronomic safaris by boat, walks in Nordic Noir Copenhagen, concerts in warehouses and pop-up restaurants. All this during the Wondercool festival – Copenhagen’s cultural month of February. It’s a festival of music, art, food, design, architecture and fashion.

Kama Sutra cookie cutters

21-1-2013

We think that it would have been nice if all restaurants near of the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht served these cookies with their coffee and tea during the KamaSutrA convention was held last weekend. Or do you dare to serve them with Valentine’s Day? The cookies are here for sale.

FabCafe laser cutter

18-1-2013

The FabCafe in Shibuya, Japan is an innovative workshop/cafe hybrid that offers its clients laser cutting services and cups of coffee. The ‘Fab’ in its name stands for fabrication. Clients are invited to bring Adobe Illustrator files into the cafe, then the laser cutter will cut out of paper, felt, acrylic, wood and other materials. FabCafe, which is operated by digital media production company Loftwork, was designed by Naruse-Inokuma Architects. Read more about it at The Pop-Up City website.

Montblanc pop-up lobby store

15-1-2013

Montblanc stationary is partnering with the St. Regis Washington DC Hotel and Thornwillow Press on a pop-up hotel lobby store for Barack Obama’s upcoming inauguration. Fans of the Montblanc brand assembling in Washington DC for the upcoming inauguration will be able to purchase leather goods, cuff links, timepieces and signature writing instruments in a new pop-up location. Obama fans can also purchase the official medallion set for $7,500. Those on a tighter budget can get an official inauguration souvenir pen for $30. In an added interactive element, visitors to the pop-up store will be encouraged to use Montblanc stationery and pens to write letters to the president that will then be hand-delivered to the White House by the St. Regis Hotel’s team of butlers. We never heard from a pop-up store in a hotel lobby, inspiration for other hotels and shops.

Create an attraction with Christmas

12-12-2012

Design studio tha ltd. created a festive gingerbread village, which has been installed in MUJI’s Yurakucho store in Japan, and will stay there until December 25th. The miniature scene, made up of a hundred houses and lots of MUJI Christmas candy, can also be viewed from a dedicated website on a 24-hour livestream. The tasty diorama is interactive and visitors can tag a tweet or photo with the hashtag #mujixmas on Twitter or Instagram to see it appear in real-time on a small digital screen in the village and on the website.

Pizza hut perfume

12-12-2012

As a component of a big social media campaign the Pizza Hut asked its fans to come up with a name for fictitious perfume with the scent of a just opened pizza box. On the Canadian Facebook page the reactions were so enthusiastic that the Pizza hut decided to give away 100 bottles of the perfume to the fans when the Facebook page reached the 100.000 likes. The stock is very limited and it is not easy to get a bottle of Eau the Pizza.

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