Driving Barista App | Driving safe in traffic
3-10-2016
Driving Barista is a new app that encourages Japanese motorists to put their phones down as they drive. Drives who don’t check their phones will be rewarded with a cup of free coffee. The app is activated when a person flips their phone over and begins driving, once the first 100km has been driven they receive a coupon for a free coffee. The counter will reset to zero kilometres at the moment the phone is lifted. After the first 100km the free coffee vouchers can be deserved every 200km.
Trends we spotted this week – week 39
30-9-2016
At Horecatrends we spot a lot of national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write articles about, the smaller trends we use in our column ‘Trends we spotted this week’. This week among others a unicorn café in Bangkok and feed the one in need by deleting a Instagram picture.
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Which burger wins Clinton’s Hilly Billy Burger or The Trump tower at the Hudson’s USA Burger Elections?
30-9-2016
Hudson Bar & Kitchen, known for its American cuisine, has created its own battle, the Hudson’s USA Burger Elections. The burger fanatics can choose between The Trump Tower, a high triple burger with two beef patties and crispy rosti or the Hilly Billy Chicken Burger, a healthy chicken burger with a spicy twist.
Kola House – PepsiCo’s first restaurant opened in New York
29-9-2016
Last weekend PepsiCo opened the company’s first-ever restaurant, the Kola House, in Manhattan across from the popular and trendy Chelsea Market. Although we only know PepsiCo from their tins and bottles cola and snacks, the restaurant isn’t completely what you would expect. The Kola House serves American shareables with global influences by executive chef Jon Feshan and an innovative cocktail menu by resident flavour chemist Alex Ott. The kola nut is one of the main ingredients of the cuisine and the cocktails.
Cannabis in the Netherlands | impact on the hospitality industry
28-9-2016
Extensively in the news last week, the legal production of cannabis. Is the legalization of the production finally happening after years of tolerating? And does this mean that on the long term the use will be legal as well? What does this mean for the hospitality industry? In any case, the use of cannabis will be trendy for a while and new cannabis products will appear on the market. We looked at what restaurants and other producers in America have created around cannabis since it has been legalized for some time now in various states. Below a list with examples of “the impact of cannabis on the hospitality industry.”
Instagram trend | #coffeeinacone
27-9-2016
Latte art to perfection, cappuccino served in a cone! Dayne Levinrad works at The Grind Coffee Company in Johannesburg (South Africa). He developed one of the Instagram trends of the moment: coffee in a cone. We already wrote about it in our ‘trends we spotted this week (21)‘ but when we made a round-up of all the ice-cream trends we spotted this summer we thought this trend deserved its own article.
Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream serves black ice
27-9-2016
Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream has introduced a new flavour which is totally black. After months filled with colourful products (check out Instagram: #rainbowfoodtrend) Morgenstern’s decided to introduce something opposite: black ice cream.
TAIYAKI NYC, serves Japanese ice cream
26-9-2016
TAIYAKI, a Japanese ice cream shop opened this month in New York City at Baxter Street. Long lines outside the shop to try this Japanese ice cream served in the fish-shaped waffles.
Inspiration session Wellness
23-9-2016
Bram Kosterink and David Maartense gave an inspiration session last month about the Wellness industry. The presentation focused on the latest trends and developments within the Wellness industry. The presentation was given at ROC Mondriaan in The Hague.
Trends we spotted this week – week 38
23-9-2016
At Horecatrends we spot a lot of national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write articles about, the smaller trends we use in our column ‘Trends we spotted this week’. This week among others, Streethacker a new app and Print a Drink, 3D printing hits the cocktail scene.
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