Giant chewing gum and cigarette
19-6-2012
This giant chewing gum and cigarette creates awareness about all the little indecents of life. The five meters high statues can be found on the train station of Marseille, France.
LED dance floor
19-6-2012
Hotel Post Plaza in the Netherlands (Leeuwarden) features this trendy LED dance floor.
Mission Bowling Club
18-6-2012
The Mission Bowling Club is a bowling center in San Francisco, located in a former electrical supply warehouse. This is not only a groovy place to throw a few strikes, but also a hip new veue with a restaurant and club. In the restaurant they serve a Heston Blumenthal inspired Umami-ladened burger. Are you going to visit The Bay Area’s this summer? Zagat gives an overview of the 10 ‘hottest’ new restaurants in this article.
Order Evian water via a magnet
18-6-2012
With this Smart Evian Drop magnet, the residents of Paris can order their boltles of Evian water through wifi. The magnet is developped by the French farm Joshfire. No more carrying heavy bottles from the store, but directly deliver at your door.
Bloody Mary
18-6-2012
Since the Bloody Mary was first served in 1921, many changes have been made. The plastic drinking straw has remained constant. Benny’s Bloody Mary Beef Straw is a game changer. Made from 100% USDA beef, Benny’s Bloody Mary Beef Straws are the final chapter in the creation of the “Perfect” Bloody Mary.
Floregano en Capersita
18-6-2012
Koppert Cress added two new products to their assortiment. The Floregano gives you the delusion being the Mediterranean and the Capersita is with its beautiful yellow, green and red color especially decorative.
Pershing Hall hotel restaurant
18-6-2012
The restaurant of the Pershing Hall hotel in Paris, offers an original and beautiful vertical garden. The changing lights create a special effect.
Mobile Pizzeria Del Popolo
15-6-2012
Del Popolo is a mobile pizzeria and owner Jon Darsky committed to create pizza by using ingredients sourced from small, generational producers. Del Popolo is housed in a twenty-foot shipping container that’s been re-purposed and modified into a kitchen. A wall of glass doors exposes the interior, including the traditional Italian-made wood-fired oven.
Origin of McDonald’s fries
15-6-2012
Meet more of the hard-working people behind the McDonald’s products. This video makes clear that the McDonald’s potatoes grow at the countryside and are not artificial. ‘Growing perfect potatoes takes the right amount of water, rich soil and a lifetime of experience’.
There are some more video’s about the McDonald’s lettuce and the meat.
Reynards restaurant New York
15-6-2012
Restaurateur Andrew Tarlow and chef Sean Rembold recently opened Reynards inside the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg (New-York). The restaurant features a wood-fired oven and grill, and serves American breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Are you going to NY this summer? Zagat provides an overview of the 10 ‘hottest’ new restaurants in this article.
Around the world with Starwood Preferred Guest
15-6-2012
Around the world in 5 Meals with SPG (Starwood Preffered Guest). Choose five of their worldwide restaurants. Register as member and join the action. Especially the integration of Google maps is very nicely done.
Umamicatessen
14-6-2012
The Restaurant Umamicatessen is a new concept from Umami Burger and is inspired by international street bazars and classic American delicatessen. The restaurant has five different kitchens with chefs from around the country. Are you going to visit Los Angeles this summer? Zagat gives an overview of the 10 ‘hottest’ new restaurants in this article.
Sustainable restaurant
14-6-2012
London’s Waterhouse Restaurant in Shoreditch, offering seasonal food alongside a firm commitment to sustainability and environmental responsibility. A mini power station built into the restaurant converts water from Regent’s Canal into electric energy that heats and cools. Watch the video.
The CaterKaravaan
14-6-2012
The ‘CaterKaravaan’ is a Dutch new concept. It is a mobile kitchen that is inspired on Asian food stalls.
S-Box
14-6-2012
The S?Box is a new concept for in the kitchen and at home. Simple to operate and cleverly creating new space in the surface of any worktop or cabinet, the S?Box collection provides a range of useful items that can be hidden from view, and presented only when needed with the touch of a finger.
Eat your brain
14-6-2012
The brain is modeled after Inition co-founder Andy Millns’ brain, who said he had his brain scanned for a project. Inition gladly made a 3D model of it, made a latex mold for the model, filled the mold with chocolate, stuck it in the fridge for three hours, and voila! A chocolate brain was made.
Restaurant Farma Kreaton
13-6-2012
Restaurant Farma Kreaton (Meat Farm in Greek) is recently opened next to Fabrica Kreaton restaurant located in the center of the city of Komotini (Greece ). The architecture and interior design of both spaces are by Minas Kosmidis. In the case of Farma Kreaton, graphic designer Yiannis Tokalatsidis created the minimalist, hand-drawn graphics and cut-outs of cows, chickens and the scenery of the countryside, which indicate the work done and to-be done on the farm. The food served is typical Greek meat-based.
Soccer Pizza
13-6-2012
Figures from meal service just-eat.nl shows that people order more during the big sport events. Therefore, artists created from pizza ingredients pizza’s of soccer-players of the Dutch nation team, specially for the European Championship.
Tap Water
13-6-2012
The two Dutch friends Tesuro Mivazaki and Tom Niekamp started a social action for serving tap water, in the hospitality industry by creating drinking bottles, carafes and coolers.
Unpackaged
13-6-2012
Unpackaged was founded in 2006 by Catherine Conway in the belief that there is a better way to sell products, so the customers can do the right thing, for themselves and for the environment. How it works: remember to bring your containers from home (if you forget these, you can buy reusable containers there), weigh your containers at the counter then choose the product & amount you want, take your goods home & enjoy. You can bring in the Unpackaged shop glass jars, tupperware, old takeaway cartons, brown paper bags, plastic bags, old packaging. Good for the environment and no waste in packaging.
De Lunterse boer promo film
13-6-2012
A good example of a hospitality promo film can look.
Paying with fingerprint
12-6-2012
Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel uses all kind of modern techniques to facilitate their modern guests. August 2011 they were one of the first hotels to introduce RFID technique to facilitate easy acces to the Facebookpages of their guests. Now they have rolled out a biometric system of payments utilising PayTouch.
Natural juice bar
12-6-2012
This natural juice consists of various grass trays that can be extended. The artist Kacey Wong has developed the bar to stand in, he can mix the apples and wheat for a healthy juice.
Pizza at your doorstep
12-6-2012
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.
Treehouse rooms above the vinyard
12-6-2012
German tree house maker Baumraum has crafted luxurious cocoons for the Mendoza resort Entre Cielos. The futuristic pods are designed to be surrounded by nature, located amidst the foliage of actual vineyards.