Domino’s Japan has launched a packaging design for its pizza boxes and a special iPhone App featuring the virtual popstar ‘Hatsune Miku’. The iPhone app comes with a social camera function which allows you to take pictures of yourself and ‘Hatsune Miku’. When your pizza is delivered you can point your phone’s camera toward the box and it will turn into a dancing stage to watch and listen to Miku’s performance.
Domino’s pizza ran a campaign at their home market. They used a door-to-door guerilla strategy, placing flyers under each door (half in, half out), in a way that is seemed real oven spatulas delivering straight from the oven inside the house. From the 2000 flyers, with 10% discount for the next order, 14,5% were redeemed and overall sales increased 12%. Advertising Agency: Artplan, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Domino’s pizza has received a number of complaints, and to remedy this, they have a Facebook page placed the ‘Think Oven’. This allows people to share their ideas. The two people with the best ideas will receive a prize.
Domino’s Pizza created an app for the iPad, the Pizza Hero, to create your own pizza and to order it afterwards. User can knead the dough, spread the pizza sauce and add all preferred ingredients. The application is divided into 11 stages in which the game element is added of making it a race against the clock, prior to the order-phase of the pizza. By means of this application the ‘handmade’ aspect of Domino’s Pizza is stimulated.
A branch of Domino’s in Dayton, Ohio (USA) recently presented a breakfast pizza. The breakfast pizza is available in three different flavors: ham & bacon, salami, onion & pepper, and onion, green pepper & mushrooms. Besides the pizza, cutsomers can alsoorder a cup of coffee or a cup of orange juice.
Domino’s has developed a widget which fans of the company can publish on their social network site. The widget keeps track of the orders made through the website and the administrator of this social network site will get 0.5% of the turnover of the order.
Aroma Italian Fine Dining named Italian Restaurant of the Year in the Netherlands
Culinary event Dyckland FSTVL in the orchard of restaurant de Dyck
Domino’s is bringing more convenience to delivery with Pinpoint Delivery
Winner of the Chefs & Shakers competition by Don Papa RumAt 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 on, among other things, a big step forward in the USA for lab-grown meat! Upside Foods and Good Meat are cleared for sale there by the US Department of Agriculture!!
The Dyckland FSTVl is held on July 1 and 2 at the orchard at restaurant ‘de Dyck’. Enjoying Dutch products! And Domino’s Pizza is introducing, ‘Domino’s Pinpoint Delivery’ in the USA. Through this system in the app, you can also have a pizza delivered in parks, sports fields and on the beach.
And a few interesting Instagram posts: quite literally a bucket list item in Berlin, where you can buy ramen from Christopher of Berlin food technique and pick it up from a bucket. We also came across the fluffy pancakes by Rookies pancakes in Paris, where there are queues waiting every day. This is also the case at the Truffle Bakery in Tokyo! They sell buns baked with truffle butter, coated with truffle oil and truffle salt. And Restaurant Sophia Loren opens 4th restaurant at the airport of Rome.
Restaurant Aroma Italian Fine Dining in Vaassen has been named ‘Italian Restaurant of the Year’ in the Netherlands by the glossy Italy Magazine. They will also become members of JRE-Jeunes Restaurateurs and the chef will publish a cookbook this fall. And the winner of the Chefs & Shakers competition by Don Papa Rum is: Team Havn and cocktail bar Feijoa. They created a small beer-like cocktail with luxury streetfood.
Conscious hotels is going to expand in Europe
Finger Sporks at KFC
Fletcher Hotel Rotterdam -Airport
Pike Place - Heritage Market Starbucks - credits Joshua Trujillo
SkyDrop Delivery Drone
The Good Wine collaborates with the Made Blue Foundation
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German Maritim Hotel group has signed a new 50-year lease with Union Investment for the biggest integrated congress hotel in Europe, The Maritim Hotel, being developed in Amsterdam North, close to the River IJ and opposite the city’s central railway station across the waterway.
Celebrating a milestone 50th anniversary, European-born brand Le Méridien brings glamour back to travel with renovations across its global portfolio. And SkyDrop and Domino’s gear up to launch a commercial drone delivery trial in New Zealand.
Hard Rock International commences partnership with GEK TERNA Group to create a luxury resort and Casino in the Heart of the Athens Riviera. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Athens is set to open in 2026. And a Heritage Market by Starbucks opened in Seattle, showing the past, present and future of coffee and their community.
KFC US unveils innovative new ‘finger sporks’ to make its side orders as finger lickin’good as its fried chicken. And NIPA Capital & Conscious hotels join forces for sustainable growth of this chain in Europe.
Organic wine form The Good Wine provides one thousand times more clean drinking water in cooperation with Water Made Blue. And the two Fletcher Hotels at Rotterdam The Hague Airport introduce a package deal: ‘The super relaxed travel package’.
In the category Catering, cleaning, security and various business services of the MT500, Hutten is number 1 this year. The MT500 is the reputation research for Dutch companies, based on the opinion of managers, decision makers and executives.
Trends we spotted
Accor adds legendary Queen Elizabeth 2 to its portfolio
New look for the beers of the Scheldebrouwerij
Blue Wellness by Fletcher
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aerMist at Fairview Farmers RestaurantAt 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 others the small blocks of Parmigiano Reggiano at the McDonald’s in Italy! Might be inspiration for the McDonald’s in the Netherlands, we have great cheeses as well!
Karen’s Diner is coming to the Netherlands, this chain from Australia serves ‘great burgers with very rude service’. We had to explain to our older colleagues what a ‘Karen’ is, do you know it? And Domino’s Pizza Germany launched the Nutri-Score on products and an A-Pizza ‘Fitness Fan’.
The legendary cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2 becomes an Accor branded hotel: MGallery Hotel Collection. After renovation it will be permanently located in Port Rashid, Dubai.
Lowering the temperature on a terrace: aerMist. We have already experienced a similar system in San Francisco and the Far East, but perhaps also useful in the north of Europe with the rising temperatures?
The Belgian brewery ‘Scheldebrouwerij’ has created a new, fresh look for their special beers. And the Fletcher hotels introduced their own private label in skincare products: BLUE Collection by Fletcher.
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KFC in Eindhoven geopend
Taco's Lovers PassAt 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 Flipdish, an online ordering and experience platform, which has had a capital injection. And the nominees for the ‘Foodservice Award 2022’ (Horecava) election have been announced, on March 10 we will know who has won in which category.
A new De Beren delivery restaurant has opened in the center of Katwijk and KFC has opened a new restaurant in the WoenselXL shopping center in Eindhoven.
Albert Heijn is testing its own app ‘Overblijvers’ (remainers) against food waste and the Dutch app, Didiyo, delivers food from Turkish, Surinamese, Polish and Moroccan grocers.
It looks like Americans will soon be able to enjoy “Snoop doggs” hot dogs and more news about Nuro’s new model of “delivery” robotics in America.
The first non-alcoholic beer with vitamin D, the Corona Sunbrew 0.0%, is already available in Canada. And in Dubai in 2023, The floating luxury five-star resort Kempinski Floating Palace will open! With hotel villas that can ‘sail’ elsewhere.
At Taco Bell in America, you can take out a subscription to the Taco Lover’s Pass, for 10 dollars per month, you can get 1 taco every day. And an article about an AI-powered platform to make wine recommendations, Tastry.
And a link to an article about the first speakeasy non-alcoholic cocktail bar in Paris: Drinks&Co by Lyre’s, special! We don’t think we have a completely alcohol-free cocktail bar here in the Netherlands, do we?
Especially for King’s Day 2024, GiG is launching their hard seltzer ‘GiG Orange Anthem’ with a refreshing orange flavour for the ultimate King’s Day experience. read more
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