Does your hotel has a soap concierge?
24-4-2012
High-end hotels sometimes offer an array of luxury soaps and other personal cleansing items. We haven’t seen the personalization and selection at the level of Mexico’s Viceroy Riviera Maya before. A ‘soap concierge’ at the newly renovated luxury hotel now offers guests a choice of locally made soaps and then hand-cuts bars on the spot from their selections.
Fries as healthy as possible
23-4-2012
The fries from NYF are made from select Russet and Russet Burbank potatoes. They leave the skin on for extra flavor and nutrition. The potatoes are cooked in non-hydrogenated (trans fat, cholesterol free) sunflower oil in an unique 3-stage cooking process to create the perfect fry texture hot and crisp on the outside, and light and fluffy on the inside.
Bubbels and Oysters for members
20-4-2012
Restaurant De Wits organizes a special Sunday for it’s members. There are free workshops during the afternoon (for example making pasta, taste wine or oysters) and a (paid) pre-taste of five new menu dishes at the evening. A simple but effective concept. Why? It creates community bonding, the free activities are interesting and there is a good change that people will return.
The only thing that scares
20-4-2012
Droste’s wants to emphasize the rural and spacious character of their the farm lodges in Twente. They do it in an original way with a photo of an electric cattle fence. The newsletter is minimalistic and there are no offers in it.
National secretary day at De La Soul
20-4-2012
At ‘national secretary day’, restaurant De La Soul has sent a letter to promote their lunches to all nearby secretaries. This is how keen marketing is done!
Hotel below the surface
20-4-2012
In the Tianmashan Mountain (China) the Shanghai Shimao Property Group is building the InterContental Shimao Wonderland, a hotel that’s situated 100 meters below the earth surface. There are three floors above the ground and the other 16 are below. The high-end hotel will open in 2014 or 2015.
Dessert in flowerpot
20-4-2012
The iNG restaurant and the Moto restaurant in Chicaco did introduce their new April Showers menu in a YouTube movie. We already placed
the movie yesterday, a great example of showing your menu. We especially liked the dessert in a flowerpot.
The French Mc Baguette
20-4-2012
The Mc Baguette from France looks great, we want it in The Netherlands as well!
Lunchbox inspiration
19-4-2012
Caterer ‘5 breads and 2 fishes’ has created a luxury lunchbox for a presentation of new products from Keune Cosmetics at the press conference in Audax Amsterdam. The ingredients of the lunchbox where inspired by the smell of the new products. Like mint-rosemary; ginger-lemon; lavendel and orange.
Are we going to drink a digibeer?
19-4-2012
Stéfhan van der Sligte, a Dutch entrepeneur, has created the digital beer app. With the app guest do get a second beer for free and for participating pubs this should ensure more costumers. The app shows the pubs in the city where you can get a second beer for free. The guest chooses a pub and activates the beercode and shows this code by ordering.