EVERY® Egg unveils liquid egg made without a hen at Eleven Madison Park
14-12-2023
Last week ingredient innovator EVERY did debut its flagship EVERY® Egg – the world’s first liquid egg made without the hen – at an exclusive dinner at world-renowned restaurant Eleven Madison Park in New York City. Made by yeast fermentation, EVERY Egg will be unveiled following nine years of product development by EVERY, which has raised over $233 million from notable investors including actress Anne Hathaway, AB InBev and Grupo Bimbo.
The Beersecco from Lowlander | A sparkling blend
17-11-2023
Good news for all the beer and wine lovers: Lowlander launches world’s first ever Beersecco (6.8%) and mixes beer and prosecco in the same bottle. A sparkling blend, brewed with botanicals. The result? Fresh, dry, a prominent grape flavour, herbal, citrus and a fluffy foam layer. A perfect alternative for a festive toast!
Bols Cocktail Academy | Reopening after renovation
16-11-2023
Bols known as the world’s first cocktail brand is reopening the Bols Cocktail Academy in Amsterdam after a renovation. With the expansion to 21 high-end cocktail stations, ambitious, driven bartenders and entrepreneurs can improve their knowledge and skills in a brand new, professional and international academy. The Academy is ready for the future!
Trends we spotted | Week 44
6-11-2023
At horecatrends.com we spot many national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write about, the other trends we use in our weekly column named ‘Trends we spotted this week’.
With this week links to articles about:
- Chefs’ Table Top, in distinctive tableware, glasses and cutlery.
- The recipe for joy this Holiday Season by KFC.
- The Shaken Cacio e Pepe served in a cocktail shaker, is on the menu at the new cocktail lounge The Ruby in New York.
- November 14 is National Pickle Day and as mentioned before, the USA has ‘National Days’ for everything you can imagine. We spotted The Original Pickle Shot which consist of pickle brine, dille and vodka.
- Get a free medium Fries every Friday with any $1 minimum purchase, only in the McDonald’s app* in the USA for the remainder of 2023. Free Fries Friday sound like a great plan for all McDonald’s worldwide, don’t you think?
- Recently the Balloon Museum opened in New York City at 299 South Street and they have a lot of locations in the planning!
- We came across ‘It’s Good’- a platform for positive restaurant reviews only! Good idea?
Bike Blinky | Scoop for Domino’s pizza delivery drivers in Enschede
31-10-2023
It’s getting dark early and for Domino’s delivery bikers, who do more than 80% of their delivery trips in the evening, it is even more important to be visible in traffic. Two Domino’s locations in Enschede are therefore starting a test with Bike Blinky: an innovative visibility solution developed by students. This interactive lighting system on the delivery jacket is in contact with the bicycle and makes delivery drivers even more visible to other road users when turning or hitting their brakes. The test period started on Saturday 28 October and will run throughout the winter months.
Marriott Bonvoy Land Game | Virtual city in Fortnite
30-10-2023
Marriott Bonvoy – Marriott International’s portfolio of over 30 extraordinary hotel brands and 10,000 global destinations – has become the first and largest hospitality company to launch in the Fortnite universe with Marriott Bonvoy Land Game, a virtual park leading to four hotel themed Mini Games that represent four distinct Marriott Bonvoy branded hotels: Moxy Hotels, Westin Hotels & Resorts, W Hotels & Resorts, and Autograph Collection Hotels.
Trends we spotted | Week 42
24-10-2023
At horecatrends.com we spot many national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write about, the other trends we use in our weekly column ‘Trends we spotted this week’.
With this week links to articles about amongst other the self-flying air taxi by the Chinese firm EHang has just been cleared for commercial flights!
We’re Smart World and the European Best Vegetable chefs wrote a recipe book, their first ‘Radilicious’-cookbook.
New York Pizza introduces their ‘Thin & Crispy’ base and four action pizzas in the Netherlands. And Mama’s Koelkast (mama’s fridge) opened in Amsterdam in May this year. A concept through which mums, who cook with love and passion, are given the chance to do so professionally.
As usual a couple of great inspirational Instagram posts: for example the ‘Crompouce’, dry-aged fish by Quique Dacosta, great looking Taiyaki cones filled with pumpkin spice ice cream and Halloween inspiration from Shake Shack.
W-Hotels, part of Marriott Bonvoy’s global portfolio of over 30 brands, announced the highly anticipated opening of W-Sydney! And also located in Sydney: The Poetica Bar & Grill they serve Oysters Flambadou, topped with nduja and guindillas.
Trends we spotted | Week 39
2-10-2023
At horecatrends.com we spot many national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write about, the other trends we use in our weekly column ‘Trends we spotted this week’.
With this week links to articles about among others an elevated pickleball and eatertainment facility ‘At Fault’ in the USA and the ‘Kids Own Mondays’ at BurgerFi, with a free kids meal with an adult meal.
Why haven’t we seen products made with Ube in Europe yet? In the USA ube is available dried, as an extract or frozen, must be easy to import this purple coloured Filipino delicacy this way! In London a new hotel opened, Hotel The BoTree. The interior design has been done by Concrete, the Amsterdam based design firm.
Shell Café X chef Herman den Blijker – the chef created Flaguette steak tartare and brioche saumon fumé. October 6th you can taste the sandwiches in his presence at one of the Shell Cafés.
Are you a fan of model trains? The “Meat & Beer On Rails” restaurant Výtopna has arrived in Vienna, Austria. Check out the embedded Instagram post in the article, it looks great!
Grow Up, Don’t Grow Old is a great viral campaign by GiG Hard Seltzer in which 2 old ladies speak Dutch street languages. Coca Cola has released Y3000, a soda co-created between humans and AI that is meant to taste just like in the year 3,000.
Trends we spotted | Week 38
25-9-2023
At horecatrends.com we spot many national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write about, the other trends we use in our weekly column ‘Trends we spotted this week’.
With links this week to articles including an initiative by DoubleTree by Hilton in Amsterdam that allows people to give away 100 litres of water per hotel stay. They have also used advanced Orbisk technology, powered by AI, to reduce thousands of kilos of food waste.
For the first time, there is now also a list of ‘The World’s 50 Best Hotels’ and Sheraton Amsterdam Airport Hotel is launching a ‘Gouden Brood’ beer, a sustainable beer concept made from leftover bread from their kitchens.
Bijou Patisserie in Dubai is serving ‘Le Goûter Vault’: high tea from a jewellery vault. And in Venlo, the Daily Trade Fair Venlo has opened, over 15,000 square metres of exhibition floor with showrooms and a culinary stage!
McDonald’s Japan has added ‘Shrimp Nuggets’ to its menu, we think that many people in the Netherlands would like this menu item as well! At the Horecava, you can check out the pop-up of BUNKR, the first AI-controlled restaurant in the Netherlands.
New owner for tea and spice shop ‘De Droom van Utrecht’. It’s the fourth business of Dineke and Marc van Bommel now. They operate two Betjeman & Barton shops selling tea (accessories), crockery and delicacies in The Hague and one in Amsterdam.
And on Instagram, we came across a cool way to serve burrata – a burrata bar!
GoTab introduces their Pocket POS system to streamline service and enhance operations
22-9-2023
GoTab, a hospitality commerce platform, announced the launch of its Pocket POS system, an all-in-one, pocket-sized ordering and payment device designed for busy servers on the go.
