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!

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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.

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The Bocktoberfest at House of Bird

22-9-2023

On Friday October 6, House of Bird will open the bock beer season with the Bocktoberfest in the Diemerbos (forest near Amsterdam). It promises to be a great kick-off including the launch of the new beer ‘Kaketoekomst’, a charity auction, the Open NK Rodeobock and various DJs. Block 6 October in your agenda if you don’t want to miss this fest or compete in the NK Rodeobock!

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Culinary unlimited dining at restaurant Bordeaux in Naarden

21-9-2023

Unlimited dining will soon take on a whole new dimension in Naarden. Right on the beautiful Gooimeer, in the Naardenbos (woods), is the brand-new restaurant Bordeaux. A unique place to enjoy high-quality dishes in a cozy ambiance. Guests will experience culinary delights such as oysters, fantastically cooked salmon and sushi with a panoramic view of the Gooimeer. The restaurant offers a completely new way of dining, where culinary highlights alternate continuously and guests lack nothing during their evening out.

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Rose & Vanilla | 200% crowdfunding for organic cakes without milk & gluten

21-9-2023

Rose & Vanilla, a Dutch patisserie that makes delicious, organic cakes without milk and gluten, has raised €300,000 with its crowdfunding through the platform CrowdAboutNow! This has reached the maximum 200% of the targeted loan.

Rose & Vanilla’s cakes are already being served at some restaurants and it is obviously a great and of course easy dessert to serve! One of our colleagues, Robin has been diagnosed with quite a few intolerances a few months ago; she writes blogs about her experiences in the hospitality industry. These are published on the Van Spronsen & Partners hospitality consultancy website. She is very happy with these kind of developments!

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Love Dates by Coffeelicious | A surprising way to meet!

19-9-2023

Who would have expected a breakfast and lunch room to provide so much love? When Coffeelicious Bakery put out a call for the singles event, Love Dates by Coffeelicious, many applications followed. People appear to be totally fed up with the ‘quick-scans’ via the well-known dating apps! Meeting someone face to face is the best way to meet!

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Line-up revealed for 100Chefs by Gault&Millau

19-9-2023

On September 30^th and October 1^st 2023 the largest culinary event of the Netherlands will take place, ‘100Chefs by Gault&Millau’, in the Miele Experience Centre in Vianen. It’s the first and largest weekend organised for consumers by Gault&Millau that will bring 100 leading Dutch chefs together. With names like Joris Bijdendijk (Rijks, Amsterdam), Nelson Tanate (De Librije, Zwolle) and Jan Smink (Smink, Wolvega) it will most definitely become a delicious culinary weekend. The goal of 100Chefs by Gault&Millau is to promote the diversity and quality of the Dutch culinary scene.

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Pyjama party at Insomnia Cookies

19-9-2023

Insomnia Cookies is a cookie company that is mainly known in the USA for selling warm and delicious cookies all day and late into the night, the company has over 245 locations. Today, Tuesday, September 19, Insomnia Cookies invites students in the USA, UK and Canada to the companies’ first ever pyjama party.

We have some stores completely dedicated to selling cookies in The Netherlands. The concept is popular and there are often long queues at the door. In Amsterdam, for example, you have Het Koekemannetje (the cookie man) and Van Stapele. The fact that a concept like Insomnia Cookies is so popular in the USA is interesting, especially since they mainly operate in the evening and the beginning of the night. We are curious if a concept like Insomnia Cookies would be as popular in the Dutch market as it is in the USA, what do you think?!

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Enter the Passoã pornstar martini competition

18-9-2023

Passoã passion fruit liqueur is launching a global competition around the iconic pornstar martini. The person who gives the cocktail the tastiest twist will win € 1,000 and a bubble gun set from Flavour Blaster.

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Ingka Centres confirms its ambitious plant-forward food hall Saluhall

18-9-2023

Ingka Centres (part of the Ingka Group, which also includes IKEA Retail and Ingka Investments) has recently announced its ambitious, plant-forward food hall Saluhall in San Francisco. This project is in collaboration with KERB, the renowned London food hall operator and small business incubator, and Claus Meyer, co-founder of the hugely-influential New Nordic Cuisine movement and entrepreneur behind multiple global community-focused culinary schools.

We are curious to see when the first plant-forward (80% plant-based) food hall will open in an IKEA in the Netherlands!

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