App to recognize customers

23-11-2011

Brouha is new application that combines chip cards with mobile phone. If customers enter a store with a RFID chip embedded customer card, the entrepreneur receives a message. He can use this information to send an automatic of customized message to the shopper.

Make your own cheese

23-11-2011

Several ‘grow your own’ initiatives are seen lately. ‘Make Cheese’ developed several packages to make your own cheese. These kits contains all ingredients, equipment and recipes. The package provides an estimated 8 cheeses. At the moment there is a mozzarella and a Canadian cheese kit, other cheeses will follow soon.

Insects cocktails

22-11-2011

In de US and Great Brittain bartenders are producing strange cocktails. As well giant ants, giant hairy spiders and grasshoppers are used as ingredients. Some insects are just for decoration, while others are roasted for a better flavor of the cocktail. The ‘Artesian Bar’ in London serves for example the ‘Langham Tea Punch’ in which you can find a baked tarantula and a scorpion. Nevertheless these insects are very nutritious and contain about 10 to 20 grams of protein.

Radical makeover for French McDonald’s

22-11-2011

McDonald’s announced a radical makeover for several restaurants in France. The foundation of the new interior design is the ‘root’, a floor to ceiling high space divider that creates distinct dining spaces. Integrated within the root are McDonald’s brand colors and digital kiosks which provide customers with the convenience of table side ordering. The restaurants will provide seating for larger groups, which is in contrast to current the restaurants.

Restaurant guide for < 600 Calories

21-11-2011

 ThinDish is a restaurant guide for Los Angeles that solely focusesses on restaurants that serve dishes with a maximum of 600 calories. The website offers the possibility to search for dishes at local restaurants and takes preferences such as special diets into account. Subsequently it provides complete nutritional information and the dishes can be ordered with discount.

Subscription-based bread

21-11-2011

Los Panderos is a Brazilian website that offers a subscription-based bread delivery. For around 33 dollars a month, the company will deliver 3 breads per week. The bread is made without preservatives, semi-cooked and can be stored for up to two weeks.

Taste sensation with bread

18-11-2011

Restaurant De Librije strives for more innovation with flavors besides optic innovation of the dishes. Hence the restaurant has started this week with a special bread-innovation by placing a pot on the table in which special dough of fermented grains will rise. After finalizing the bread in the kitchen it’s brought back together with a dip of fermented apple and goat butter. According to Jonnie Boer of De Librije guests can expect more authentic flavors, which will be dealt with in an innovative manner.

Seesaw table

18-11-2011

The idea for this project of Marleen Jansen sparked after writing her thesis about the manipulation of product users. The table seesaw influences table manners and makes it impossible to get of the table during dinner. See the seesaw table here.

Pop-up greenhouse Cypress Hills

18-11-2011

The Greenhouse Project is a project that’s created as a result of obesity and diabetes in the low-income neighborhood Cypress Hills (New York). This pop-up greenhouse will provide the population with healthy food and will have a capacity of 8,000 pound per 3 months. Because the area has many vacant lots, it has the ability to move multiple times per year. The organization has a presence in Manhattan with hydroponic projects at schools since 2010 and hopefully it will enter Cypress Hills soon. See the greenhouse here.

Geese croquettes

18-11-2011

Beach pavilion Beach Inn in IJmuiden now serves croquettes of geese from Schiphol. Because of the safety around the airport, geese are killed. Before, nothing was done with these dead geese so far. Rob Hagenouw, an artist from Amsterdam, came with the idea to use these geese in a variant of the traditional croquet. The American crayfish and the muskrat are the next animals in Hagenouws the crosshairs.

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