Trends for your terrace 2016 – theme & style
14-3-2016
Your terrace is just as important as your interior. It is the eye catcher of your company. Theme’s and different styles for your terrace can create an extra experience. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case in all municipalities, some entrepreneurs can only chose between pre-ordered terrace furniture in several municipalities. But despite this fact, you can still do a lot to give your terrace your own twist. If you aren’t stuck to pre-ordered terraces, the ideas below might be nice to apply to your terrace:
Trends we spotted this week – week 10
11-3-2016
At the redaction of Horecatrends we spot a lot of national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write articles about and as from today we use the smaller trends in our column ‘Trends we spotted this week’. This week among others ‘The Peanut Butter Store’, ‘The First Drone Café’ and ‘Dining in the rooms of the Red Light District’. If you like to read the whole article, click the title. Enjoy reading!
Joepies, the most delicious bread candies!
11-3-2016
A nice idea, little bread snacks in a cone shaped bag. On the 10th of March DANVO Bakeries launched a new unique innovative snack, the ‘Joepies’. Joepies are one-bite sized bread rolls made of bread dough, supplemented with fresh fruits and herbs.
Running Pizza, watch your pizza coming your way with Periscope
10-3-2016
A one-day event in London, Running Pizza. A local running club, Run Dem Crew delivered pizzas from Sodo Sourdough Pizza Café. And the customers could watch the delivering in real-time via Periscope streams.
A creative solution for the waste problem on festivals
10-3-2016
Everyone who ever visited a festival does know the waste problem. In no time the whole festival grounds is covered with empty plastic bottles, little pieces of paper and napkins. ThinkScream has the solution: 15 minutes of free Wi-Fi for those who throw their waste in a special bin!
Hightealicious
9-3-2016
Coffeelicous is known in Holland as the winner of the ‘Koffie Top 100’ in 2014. They also own Hightealicious in Dordrecht (the Netherlands) where they serve fancy high teas. As far as we know, this is the only shop in the Netherlands that exclusively serves high teas.
Deliveroo delivers the most delicious meals
8-3-2016
Delivery service Deliveroo makes sure to deliver ‘quality meals’. The delivery service distinguishes itself from others by taking over the whole process from the restaurant. Everyone does what he or she does best. The restaurant prepares the meals, Deliveroo delivers and we order and eat it.
Holi Day – Festival of Colours at your plate by Soenil Bahadoer
8-3-2016
Soenil Bahadoer created a dish based on Holi Phagwa, the Hindu spring festival. Like the ‘Festival of colours runs’ he creates his dish ‘scallop – pumpkin – Madame Jeanette’ with flying colours. Patrick Meis made the above video.
Hey WhatsApp… can I have two beer and a coke?
7-3-2016
Our colleague David Maartense blogs about using WhatsApp for business purposes in the hospitality industry, which doesn’t happen often. Think for example about making last minute reservations through WhatsApp or sending pictures.
National Social Media Research 2016 of Newcom shows that WhatsApp currently is the biggest social media platform of the Netherlands. A number of 9.8 million of the Dutch people uses WhatsApp, 7.0 million of them are using it on a daily basis.
Happy Goggles – virtual reality headset from a Happy Meal box
7-3-2016
We’re convinced that our Dutch kids want to try the Happy Goggles as well, McDonald’s Holland! McDonald’s Sweden is giving children a view into the world of virtual reality with the Happy Meal box from the 5th till the 12th of March.