Trends we spotted | Week 7
15-2-2019
At hospitalitytrends.eu we spot many national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write about, the smaller trends we use in our weekly column ‘Trends we spotted this week’.
This week, among other links to articles about BeerYoga, DOT in Groningen, a Moët & Chandon vending machine and Amazon is testing delivery robots in Seattle. We spotted a new street food concept in Paris, Magnà Street Food sells ‘Rotolo’ and the ‘Portoglio’ pizza. And a link to an article about the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, in January they introduced radical changes in the voting system and judging panels. The 18th edition of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants will be unveiled on Tuesday 25th June in Singapore.
Wouldn’t you like to play a human snack claw machine? We would! And what we also like to try is the McFalafal, but you can only get it in Sweden at this moment. And how about a scoop of Hellmann’s Mayo ice cream, would you fancy that?
The Check Out Suite for Valentine’s Day | Check out from social media and check in at the screen free hotel room
12-2-2019
Another hotel that plays with the social media addiction of many guests today! On 14 February guests of the ‘Check Out Suite’ have the chance to experience a unique hotel stay at Hotel Bellora in Gothenburg, Sweden. There’s only one condition – you need to put down your screens. They introduce the world’s first hotel room where the price is set according to how much you browse the web. Less browsing and more hanging out equals a better price. So, check-in, and then check-out! They want to encourage people that are staying in the hotel to spend more time together and less time looking at the phone screen. The Check Out Suite is an exciting concept that challenges our online behavior and incites us to spend more time together. Unfortunately the registration date has expired! Great way to increase your brand awareness!
Anne-Sophie Pic & Clare Smyth | International Women’s Day dinner
12-2-2019
Although the International Women’s Day is celebrated on Friday the 8th of March, two of the world’s greatest chefs Anne-Sophie Pic and Clare Smyth will prepare and host a dinner in honor of it on Monday 11th March. The dinner will be held in restaurant ‘La Dame de Pic London’ at the Four Seasons Hotel London. Guests will be welcomed to celebrate women working in the restaurant industry. A great example for other female chefs! Why not celebrate the International Women’s Day 2020 with these kind of dinners or lunches to ask attention for women in the restaurant industry? Collaborate with other female chefs and you could even invite speakers about related subjects. To reach more people you might even start a new contest and choose for example ‘the female restaurant owner of the year’.
Cheeseburger Dumplings | 2019, the year of the crossovers?
8-2-2019
Leonie van Spronsen, lives and works in New York and enjoys new concepts that she spots in the hospitality industry. In this blog she argues for more crossovers in the hospitality industry and gives an example, the cheeseburger dumplings created by Mimi Chengs & Emily. In addition, she thinks that hospitality entrepreneurs should contact friends from within the industry to see what they could create together. Might be a great opportunity to generate more publicity and buzz for your business! She loves to hear (and taste) what you’ve created!
Jutter Speijs | The unmanned shop-in-shop solution for the hospitality industry
8-2-2019
Should the minibar belong to the past? It does according to Jutter Speijs. Jutter Speijs offers an unique “Food Market”-retail concept for hotels. The unmanned food markets of the company can be placed in the lobby of a hotel and the guests can decide themselves what they will take up to their room, which makes the minibar unnecessary. Jutter Speijs is already active in several hotels in the Netherlands and hopes to expand locally and abroad this year.
Trends we spotted | Week 5
1-2-2019
At hospitalitytrends.eu we spot many national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write about, the smaller trends we use in our weekly column ‘Trends we spotted this week’.
This week, among other links to articles about the fact that the owners of Eleven Madison Park in New York will open their first restaurant in London, Davies & Brook at the Claridges’s Hotel and about Stixfresh sticker, which increases the freshness of fruit. Also a link to one of the most Instragrammable chapels in Las Vegas and Ferran Adrià will reopen his famous restaurant El Bulli: not as a restaurant, but also as a knowledge center elBulli 1846. Other news for foodies: great images of the plates at the Bocuse d’Or 2019 the team of Denmark won! And we have read a Dutch article about TerraCycle that is eliminating the idea of waste by recycling the “non-recyclable”. In 2020 the Hard Rock Hotel Amsterdam American will open and today, February first, a dog restaurant will open in Antwerp! Also in this list of links: gravy candles from KFC and Howard Schultz, former CEO of Starbucks, is exploring an independent 2020 presidential bid.
‘De Vergaderfabriek’ | The world’s first 3D printed meeting location
31-1-2019
Last week the printing of ‘De Vergaderfabriek’ (the Meeting Factory) started, under great interest from the press. They symbolically placed a time capsule in a cavity of the first 3D printed concrete wall of ‘De Vergaderfabriek’. The time capsule contains letters aimed at the future and which will be opened the moment the building will be recycled in the future. De Vergaderfabriek is located in Teuge, the Netherlands. In Europe it will be the first commercially built 3D-printed building. The building is designed by Pim van Wylick from The Form Foundation.
Trends we spotted | Week 2
10-1-2019
At hospitalitytrends.eu we spot many national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write about, the smaller trends we use in our weekly column ‘Trends we spotted this week’.
This week, amongst others, a link to an article about a great marketing example from a new designhotel in Eindhoven, The Match. Here you’re advised to ‘check in and stay out’. Links to articles about the sustainable exotic Kudadoo Island Resort at the Maldives and about a Culinary Agenda for January. Inspiration from London, with a great collaboration of Indian restaurant Bombay Bustle and a yoga institute. And are you a pizza and game lover? Then you must play the Monopoly Pizza Game!
Starbucks Reserve Roastery New York | With the first Arriviamo™ Bar in the U.S.
8-1-2019
Starbucks Reserve Roastery New York opened in Meatpacking District where the company’s rarest and freshest coffees are being roasted and served. For the first time in the U.S., Starbucks introduced the Arriviamo™ Bar, a cocktail bar in the Roastery featuring a curated menu of coffee and tea cocktails. Next to the cocktails you can enjoy a unique menu of Starbucks Reserve specialty coffee and Teavana tea as well as freshly baked artisanal food from boutique Milanese Princi™ bakery.
Happy holidays | Christmas decorations 2018
20-12-2018
We are in the dark days before Christmas, with real Dutch weather. A little bit of once or twice and mostly wind and rain. Time to create a ‘Christmassy’ restaurant! In September we always give an overview of what we have spotted in the previous Christmas period for inspiration. Below our colleague Max van Oeveren has made a list of small examples up to the great Christmas tree at Claridge’s Hotel in London and special Christmas decorations, as inspiration for hotels, restaurants, bars and of course for at home.
This is the last article on Horecatrends for this year. We wish you a warm, cozy holiday season and lots of inspiration and happiness in 2019. For those who have to work in the hospitality industry, we wish you many nice guests!
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