‘Tosti Madness’ makes gourmet sandwiches. With the ‘Tosti Madness’ caravan and grill they visit festivals to serve the visitors fresh sandwiches made from organic and/or local products. They will also create a ‘Tosti Madness special’ with seasonal/region-specific products on request. They are always looking for new ways to prepare the sandwiches, such with a grill or on fire. ‘Tosti Madness’ also provides sandwiches to the hospitality business (mainly pubs) and provides catering. Last year they won the award for the best food truck concept during ‘Proefpark Haarlem’.
You go out for dinner with some friends but before you even know it everyone is playing with a smartphone, recognizable? Restaurant Abu Ghosh in Jerusalem started a campaign to reduce the use of smartphones during dinner. The owner Jawdat Ibrahim noticed that his guests were talking less with each other and were constantly distracted by their smartphone. Therefore guests are asked to turn off their phone during dinner. When they put off their smartphone they will receive 50% discount on their bill. Earlier we saw the ‘My phone is off for you’ campaign.
Cookie producer John Altman wants to crowdfund a total of € 9.000,- for an electric popcorn carrier tricycle. The tricycle is equipped with a mobile popcorn factory and will appear in Amsterdam parks and at events. The staff of the tricycle will consist out of ex-homeless people that reintegrate in the society with the help of the Rainbow Group. The crowdfund project has reached 78% of its goal and will close within 7 days.
During clarification of wine animal or plant protein can be used. Wine importer Yanflorijn focuses on importing wines that are free from the use of any animal products and serves vegetarian wine lovers with this proposition. In the near future Yannick Slagter and Floor Overgoor, founders of Yanflorijn want to grow their own vineyard in Holland.
Recently, a new joint opened up in New York City’s East Village that focuses solely on serving biscuits around the clock. You Americans reading this will probably think yummy, what a great idea! But for most of us Europeans it’s like, what is that? A cookie? No, biscuits are basically hearty scones that are traditionally served with fried chicken in the US. The founders of Empire Biscuit felt like this traditional side dish deserved some more limelight and opened up a 24 hours biscuit shop last month! At Empire Biscuit you can buy biscuits with many different fillings, depending on the time of day of course. This seems to spark a new battle in the cities’ culinary networks, because who makes the best biscuits? ^Leonie van Spronsen
In cities like New York and Bangkok diverse streetfood is commonly. The Netherlands lack a diverse streetfood offer. There is a law introduced in the ’30s that demands permets for streetfood. The permits are mainly provided to hotdog stands, deepfried dough during winter months and ice cream stands. At the moment the waiting list for permits is as long as thirty years for popular places like the Vondelpark. With the Streetfood petition initiator Steff Veldkamp from Vleesch noch Visch wants to put this issue on the political agenda and underline the fact that nowadays’ foodtrucks can be equipped like regular professional restaurant kitchens.
In cities like New York and Bangkok diverse streetfood is commonly. The Netherlands lack a diverse streetfood offer. There is a law introduced in the ’30s that demands permets for streetfood. The permits are mainly provided to hotdog stands, deepfried dough during winter months and ice cream stands. At the moment the waiting list for permits is as long as thirty years for popular places like the Vondelpark. With the Streetfood petition (link) initiator Steff Veldkamp from Vleesch noch Visch wants to put this issue on the political agenda and underline the fact that nowadays’ foodtrucks can be equipped like regular professional restaurant kitchens.
InterContinental Amstel Amsterdam has opened the first Champagne Suite by Dom Pérignon on October 17. The luxurious appearance and quality of Dom Pérignon returns into the interior of the suite. For the design and styling LM Flower Fashion and Puurflow were attracted. The suite is characterized by high-gloss black and silver with solid wood furniture. There is a stage for leading Dutch and international artists to exhibit their designs and creations. At this moment the exclusive soccer table by Piet Hein Eek is exhibited in the suite. In collaboration with the Nation Museum and a number of Dutch photographers hang replicas of artworks in the suite. Watch the video of the Dom Pérignon suite.
The new ‘Cava Brutal’ is a non-traditonal, non-conformist bubble. The cava from Spain has a 18-month maturation (reserva) and is composed with the indigenous grape varieties Macabeo, Xarello, Parellada and Chardonnay. The ‘Cava Brutal’ is produced at winery DO Cava, located in the heart of the Penedés and Cava region, near Barcelona. Superrebel.com has developed this special cava in collaboration with Spanish winemaker Joan Rovira (agricultural engineer and oenologist). The bottle has a striking design, the bright orange color combined with black gives the bottle a clean look.
This recent year we have seen more and more pop-up stores that have made it go from hot to mainstream. Empty retail spaces fill up temporarily with stores or hospitality formulas. We also saw hotel lobbies that supported diverse pop-up formulas. So why not a pop-up Christmas store or Christmas village in your lobby? Why doesn’t your hotel collaborate with the local gardening center? They usually offer the most beautiful arrangements for the holidays and can use some extra exposure! Think of those beautiful snowy Christmas settings as in the picture that mesmerize your junior guests. This creates a win-win situation as you have great decoration and it will encourage guests to stay just a little longer, buy an extra cup of coffee. The first hotel that creates a collaboration like this will definitely earn a mention on horecatrends.com. Download our booklet ‘Christmas gestures‘ with more easily usable Christmas gestures.
The Mandarin Cake Shop opened its doors in the 1970s and since 1987 Yves Matthey is the Executive Pastry Chef of this beautiful treat shop at the Mandarin Oriental. The signature items of The Mandarin Cake Shop include the cheesecake, the chocolate truffle cake, home-made XO sauce and rose petal jam, of which the recipe stays a mystery. There are beautiful (Christmas) cakes and pies for sale in the shop.
Hotel ‘Palacio de Sal’, recently renovated and unique in the world. The hotel is located in Bolivia, South America, and is entirely made of salt. The hotel has 24 rooms of which 8 double rooms and 16 twin rooms. The walls, floors, chairs, tables, beds and ceilings are all made from salt. Only the mattresses and toilets aren’t made of salt. Not only the hotel consists of salt, but also the restaurant meals are based on salt. Hotel guests are not allowed to lick on the walls. From January 2014 the hotel expands to 8 double and 22 twin rooms.
Pizza slices and boxes in the tree, spotted in New York and easily to recreate golden cutlery. A tree full of fortune cookies in a Chinese restaurant or golden chopsticks in a Japanese tree, all easy to execute ideas to customize your tree! Just consider what you sell (ice cream cones in an ice cream parlor or espresso cups in a coffee bar) and spray it in a Christmas color, easy and stylish! Download our booklet ‘Christmas gestures‘ with more easily usable Christmas gestures.
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The PlantLab in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, succeeded in cultivating the first fruit and vegetables without daylight use. PlantLab did cultivate cucumbers, strawberries, corn, beans and tomatoes by making use of only red and blue LED lights. This opens options to grow these products at your restaurant and always have super fresh cucumbers, strawberries etc. available.
Hotels with a macabre past, Vacation spots for the morbidly, for curious travelers! Ghosts and spirits guaranteed!
Frushi is a combination of rice and fruit shaped like sushi. They only use fresh fruit. All kinds of fruit are used to make frushi’s. You can eat Frushi for breakfast, but is also delicious as a dessert or snack.
Weber had to promote the new serie of grills. The traditional fences all over the city were turned into genuine grills, simply by adding magnetic real size flyers in the shape of steaks, burgers and shish kebabs. On the back: the website! See the pictures here.
Worldwide objects, trees, statues are wrapped with fabric. No longer a “trend”, it has been going on for quite a while! And we missed it completely! But as the press gives attention to these projects regularly, it’s maybe an idea to have an object around your hotel or restaurant packed with knitted fabric by people who love to knit (the wild knitters?).
Especially for Valentine’s Day Cooling offers a wine climate cabinet decorated with a red fabric. The Valentine Champagne Cabinet comes with two champagne glasses and a bottle of rosé champagne by Lamoureux.
Opening oysters is always tricky. With this oyster opener it is easier and safer for your fingers.
The Champagne bar has turned a luxurious Rolls Royce into a real champagnebar. The back of the car has been re-modeled in Riva style and is equipped with 21 champagne coolers, 2 fridges with room for 50 bottles of champagne each and 40 speakers.
By checking in at Foursquare in a bar where Heineken beer is tapped, consumers save extra ‘e-points ‘, Heineken’s current loyalty program.
Restaurant ‘t Schulten Hues, the Netherlands, now has a shop called Gast-Deli, the shop full of goodies. Peter Gast & Jacqueline van Liere offer a variety Schulten Hues-related products. From the now classic Schulten Hues croquette to wines and ingenious kitchen gadgets.
Whisky producer Scottish Spirit launched whisky cans on the Sout-American market.They think that people who drink whisky outdoors prefer cans over walking around with a bottle.
The Polish knitting expert and artist Beata Faron made this knitted mug warmers. The mug warmers do not only keep your mug warm, they also ensure that you do not burn your hands.
From February 16th guests can order a taco with lion meat at Boca Tacos y Tequila restaurant in Tucson, Arizona. The tacos cost $ 8.75. The restaurant has previously served tacos with meat of python, turtle, alligator, kangaroo, and wapiti. The U.S. Food and Drug administration had no objection as long as no endangered species are on the menu.
Home grown strawberries are the very best. Therefore the Dutch, “Lambada” strrawbaerry farmer Jan Robben organizes the first Strawberrie Academy on April 2. People can buy their own strawberry plants, to take home and grow their own strawberries at home.
Today, in 6800 Starbucks outlets, one can pay with a Starbucks Card Mobile app for Blackberry, iPhone or iPod Touch. The digital customer card can be upgraded by credit card or PayPal.
MSF (Mediciens Sans Frontier) has a new campaign to raise awareness for the work the organization does in developing countries. People with Twitter, Facebook and / or a Linkedin account donate their profile for one day. At this donated day MSF sents up to 7 MSF messages to your followers.
After ShopMarriott, HiltontoHome, W Store, and Hyatt at Home now Swiss Hotel intriduces an online store. In the shop all the items used in the hotel can be bought, from bedding to candles and bathrobes.
The Golden Nugget Hotel in Las Vegas has installed an ATM where visitors can withdraw golden coins. The weight of the gold varies from 1 gram to 1 ounce. Prices adjust automatically every 10 minutes to reflect actual market value. 1 ounce costs around $ 1.400, =
Advertising agency Colle + McVoy created this bus stop for Caribou Coffee in Minneapolis. To promote the ‘Hot’n Wholesome’ it turned a busshelter into an toasty oven including a real heater.
Hotel Review Oyster website has found a new way to compare hotels. Photos from the brochure or the website of a hotel are compared with photographs which are made by Oyster during a mystery visit.
With the free app from Bluelight, people can let their friends and family know if they arrive somewhere on time. You set the time needed to arrive at a destination. Once you arrive, you check in and Bluelight is deactivated. If you do not check in, your contact receives an email or text message with your location determined by GPS.
The city guides of WHAI WHAI lets tourists explore the city. By sending a text message and set the duration, difficulty level and start location, the game begins. The participant will receive different enigmas while walking through the city, and gets a part of the story that is told about the city every time.
The Green Wall is a wall made of Norwegian reindeer moss. It was created by, Akoestische Zaken, located in Rotterdam and improves the acoustics of a room. On HORECAVA 2011 the wall received the prize for best innovation in the hospitality industry.
For people who do not know exactly when they have opened a jar or bottle, or don’t know how long something is kept in the fridge, Unibyte developed the “Consume within” app. It lets you spill less food and keeps your household stock in order.
The droplet is a keychain to pay with. Through the website and a register module, visitors can buy tickets and pay for drinks and for example the cloakroom. No more cash needed.
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