Crepe shop as fastfood formula
26-8-2011
A solution for the crêpe-lovers who don’t like the sit-and-eat ambiance of the regular crêpe restaurants. Former American Football star Matt Chatham opened a fast serve crêpe shop in Massachusetts. With unique take-aways like the Cup O’ Crepes he expects to expand the franchise concept thoughout the USA.
Restaurant dishes available in the supermarket
25-8-2011
ASDA supermarket chain, known from the British Walmart, started an experiment by selling take-away dishes of local restaurants. These are dishes of the Arabic, Pakistani and Indian kitchen. Last spring, the ASDA started a cooperation with the restaurant chain Zouk, since then the sales are tripled. Next year, this experiment will be extended to London.
Fashionable donuts
24-8-2011
Like we mentioned before on Horecatrends.com, the donut is rediscovered in the United States. Donut company Kripsy Kreme created a limited edition of the Glamour Glaze Donut, specially for the London Fashion Week, which starts next month.
Don’t buy unripe fruit
24-8-2011
With this new iPhone app, the Melon Meter, you measure the ripeness of the watermelon. First you give an indication of size of the melon, then you have to lightly knock on the melon, which will be collected by the microphone of your iPhone. Finally, the app gives an indication of the ripeness of the melon.
The small local stores return in Germany
23-8-2011
Mundvoll is a café and grocery store that brings back the local small neighbourhood shops. The concept is first implemented at a temporary location on the Zeppelin University campus in Friedrichshafen. The visitors can orders drinks, small bites and day-to-day groceries in the shop.
The Anti-restaurant in Haarlem
22-8-2011
The Anti-restaurant is a pop-up restaurant, and is not located at one place. People can sign in through Facebook, but the organization decides who will be invited. Moments before the start of the dinner, the guests will receive the location. For a group of 10 to 15 persons, a five course meal will be prepared. The first Anti-restaurant took place on last 15th of July.
Organic Fastfood – Blas Burgerworks
22-8-2011
A new fully organic and eco-friendly fastfood restaurant in St. Ives (Great Brittain), which is specialized in burgers. For their food, they only use fresh, local and seasonal products.
Wilde & Greene Restaurant and Natural Market
19-8-2011
All in-one: a restaurant and supermarket, located in a mall in Skokie, Illinois. The restaurant covers almost 3,000 square meters and offers 18 counters where you can find organic, seasonal en local dishes and products. Guests can dine and doing their groceries afterwards.
Music & Food – the perfect combination
19-8-2011
Turntable Kitchen is started by a couple from San Francisco, who combine music and food. Every month they create a Turntable Kitchen Pairings Box, which includes a 7-inch vinyl single with tracks of their favourite bands, several recipes, local premium dried ingredients and suggested pairings. This box will be send monthly to their members.
Terminator in an ice cup
19-8-2011
After de frozen yogurt ice cream, we now see the ice cream parlours where the ice cream is prepared by using liquid nitrogen of a temperature of almost –200 Celsius degrees (-320F). Nitro Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt opened two flagship stores in New York. Guests can compose their own ice cream, by choosing the base (regular, soya, yogurt, sorbet), then they can choose the taste and finally they choose the topping.