Flat winebottle

26-2-2010

Design student from the Design Institute in Nantes, Adrien Cussonneau, designed a very original bottle. From one side it looks like a normal glass bottle, the other side of the bottle however is completely flat.

Open source restaurant

24-2-2010

Restaurant Instructables opened in Amsterdam. This restaurant is a so-called “open source restaurant”. This means that of everything you eat in the restaurant, the recipe can be found on their website, as well as an instruction about how to recreate the furniture.

 

Online marketplace voor hotels and restaurants

23-2-2010

The site www.horecavoorhoreca.nl is a Dutch online marketplace for hotels, restaurants and catering entrepreneurs. Here anything can be offered, from inventory to ingredients.

McDonald’s ‘Easy order service’

21-2-2010

Schiphol Amsterdam Airport in The Netherlands is the first airport in Europe that has two ordering colums at the McDonald’s Restaurant in Lounge 3 (behind the passport check). Guests can use a touchscreen for their orders and pay by debit or credit card.

Sportsbeer

21-2-2010

Sportbrands and beer are not often related. Puma however, launches a special “Unity beer” with the upcoming world cup in South Africa in Mind.

Anti-hangover drink

20-2-2010

After 6 years of research they finally developed an anti-hangover drink. The contents of the 3cl bottle temper the hangover. The ingredients of the drink are a combination of several herbal extracts, with pear flavor. These herbs are known for their detoxifying effect. It should work approximately 45 minutes after consumption.

Vin service

20-2-2010

Vin Service is a delivery service in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, for chilled beer, wine, soft drinks, chips and liquor. They also rent out party tents, BBQ’s and DVD players. They are open from Wednesday through Saturday from 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 and Sunday from 8:00 p.m. to 0:00. To create name recognition, they did most of their promotion through the social network Hyves.

Restaurantweek during the winter in Boston

19-2-2010

Last March in Boston a “winter” restaurantweek was organised. This restaurantweek wasn’t only meant to eat out good and cheap, one could get discount for cinema- or theatretickets as well.

Norms, social media commercial

19-2-2010

Hamburger restaurant ‘Norms’ came-up with a really nice commercial to focuse the consumers attention at Twitter and Facebook.

Coca Cola focuses on social media

17-2-2010

Coca Cola will focus more on social media. Under the guise of “be where the customer is” Coca Cola Marketing now focuses on Facebook among others. The key is to offer interesting online content, according to Coca Cola. It is supposed to work better than distributing free samples.

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