Extreme advertisement from Burger King Russia
16-12-2011
Burger King Russia has made a advertisement with rap music, unicorns, ballerinas and a DJ. The video shows a dad teaching his son how to eat a burger, a guy asking his girlfriend to marry him and more weird stuff happening in BK. The music in the clip comes from the popular Russian hip-hop musical “Cops on Fire”.
Mega huge sauce sachets
16-12-2011
Hot Pocket Sadia comes with a X-treme Burger, to accompany this big sandwich DDB Advertising created huge sachets of mayonaise, ketchup and mustard.
Luxurious version of Burger King
15-12-2011
Burger King has recently opened a new location in Singapore; the Burger King Garden Grill. This restaurant is decorated with several comfortable sofa’s, soft colours and lot of decorative foliage. The menu is still the same. With this concept Burger King hopes to attract more families. The restaurant chain has no immediate plans to bring this concept to the United States.
Shazam recognizes recipes
15-12-2011
The new commercial campaign of the American cooking channel Pillsbury allows Shazam users to scan the commercial. Hereby the viewer receives several recipes and further product information.
Christmas inspiration: Santa Claus hat brownie
14-12-2011
These brownies with a Santa Claus hat are really easy to make. You take a brownie and put vanilla-butter on top. Top this off with a strawberry, which serves as a hat, decorate this with some whipped cream. Nice to serve this with a cup of coffee during the Christmas period.
You want fries with that
14-12-2011
McDonald’s is coming with a new marketing campaign, called ‘You want fries with that?’ On the website you can tell what you would like in combination with your fries, and the best idea wins $25.000,=. The idea behind it is that McDonald’s fries actually fit with everything.
Social media release; What is hot in 2012?
13-12-2011
The National Restaurant Association (USA) asked almost 1800 professional chefs about their opinion of the trends for 2012. They said about 223 items if it was a hot trend, yesterdays news or a perennial favourite. The results of the survey tell us that healthy food for kids, the use of local products, sustainability and social media are really important in 2012. Check youtube or the whole article for more information.
Collaboration between bars and Brand beer
9-12-2011
In various cities in the Netherlands the cafes that tap Brand beer have joined hands to form the “Brandslang” (Fire Hose). The collaboration gives lots of opportunities for pub crawls and other activities. Venlo and Den Bosch go a bit further and organize a total package with culinary, cultural and quiz elements with the ‘Brandslang’.
Customized cow meat
7-12-2011
An organic beef provider “Mycow” in Germany lets customers decide how they want their beef. It’s not the choice between rare, medium or well-done, the customers can decide the breed of the cow, the farm it’s coming from and the way the cow is slaughtered. Customers have the opportunity to choose for a cow that is slaughtered in the field instead of in a factory. This causes less stress for the cows and so it will be better meat. Thus more tasteful and animal friendly.
Tweet for a treat Twitter cafe
7-12-2011
ESB Electric Ireland came up with the Tweet Café during the Dublin Web Summit. Instead of a regular café format, visitors could choose for a variety of mini-boxes with different food and drink combinations. To order, users had to tweet #tweetcafe followed by the number of the box containing the snacks they wanted. When the order was ready, the users Twitter profile appeared on a large screen and the box containing the treats was opened.