Frozen yogurt available at the train station
21-6-2011
Juice bar Shakies introduced frozen yogurt in 4 different locations on train stations; on Amsterdam Central, Amsterdam Amstel, Leiden and Eindhoven train station. The frozen yogurt is made of organic yogurt and will be served with several fruit toppings. Next to the frozen yogurt, Shakies introduced breakfast shakes and salades as well. Untill the 11th of July you can try free samples of the new products.
Download free music at the Morgan Hotels
21-6-2011
In partnership with RCRD LBL, Morgans Hotel Group launched a new service for her guests. By scanning QR codes of the keycards, guests can download free music and playlists, which are compiled to suit the unique feeling of each Morgans hotel.
There is an app for boiling an egg!
21-6-2011
This iPhone app for Swedish sandwich spread Kalles Kaviar not only tells you how to boil the perfect egg, it will put together a playlist that, when finished, means your egg is ready. (It’s all so you can get your egg perfectly hardboiled to accompany the caviar). It’s clearly a hit with caviar/egg lovers – the app already has more than 50,000 downloads and is the third most downloaded in the free app section in the Swedish iTunes AppStore.
Club Med is looking for a professional in enjoying life!
20-6-2011
This is the way to get a lot of attention in social media! Club Med (in the Netherlands) is looking for a professional in enjoying life! Through their website they are gathering potential professionals and one of them gets the job to visit 2 new resorts this year, and write about it and show photo’s via social media. This idea can also be used as concept when opening a new hotel!
Whopper Lust Challenge
20-6-2011
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Via Direct TV on Channel 111 you can compete in the Whopper Lust Challenge. The challenge is to watch as long as possible to a grilled burger. By pressing buttons on your remote, they measure how long you are watching. For every 10 minutes of watching, you earn a free Whopper. But when you switch to another channel, you lose all your earned Whoppers.
Panera cares, where you pay-what-you-can
20-6-2011
A good article at Triple Pundit about Panera Bread’s founder Ronald Shaich who started a Community Café last year where guest can-pay-what-you-can. Bottom line: Panera Bread created the Panera foundation and after 1 year Shaich estimates that about 20% of visitors to the cafes leave more than the suggested amount, 20% leave less and 60% leave the suggested donation. On average, each cafe serves 3,500 to 4,000 customers per week and generates about 75-80% of the retail value of the food.
The water that Henry David Thoreau would have preferred
20-6-2011
WaterConcept Nederland delivers Thoreau water, an inventive dispending unit, designed for the hospitality. This system gives tap water the quality of pure and filtered water, which will be served in bottles of Swedish Design, available in still and sparking. Companies in the hospitality pay a fixed price per month for the system.
Illucensie for a creative restaurant review
19-6-2011
Illucensie is a Dutch contamination between illustratie (illustration) and recensie (review) created by Janneke Hoeben. She draws her restaurant reviews and creates a win-win situation: building up her portfolio and (free) publicity for her company.
Amphibious ice cream truck
18-6-2011
The world’s first amphibious ice cream truck is a fact. The ‘HMS flake 99’ is commissioned by Fredericks ice cream company to celebrate the national ice cream week in England. Its marks the beginning of a UK tour, with plans to visit Venice in 2012.
The hamburger that fits
17-6-2011
A big mouth, but pain in the jaws after eating a hamburger? Two students from the MiamiAdd School in Berlin have developed an app that chooses the ideal hamburger for you by using a webcam. As a bonus, McDonalds randomly selects a burger that can be picked up by people with the ideal mouth size.
Back from the past: Bocuses cuisine rapide (2009)
17-6-2011
A few years ago we noted that the Bocuse restaurant group also wanted to create a modern version of a fastfood restaurant. The video expresses perfecly what they categorize as fastfood.
Energy Kitchen, popular & low Calory
17-6-2011
For those who want to visit New York this summer and don’t want to come back with some extra kilo’s there is Energy Kitchen. The restaurant serves low Calorie food and healthy hamburgers. Besides that they advocate a healthy lifestyle.
Restaurant ‘ De Culinairy Workshop creates edible paper
16-6-2011
‘De Culinaire Werkplaats’ is an eating concepts restaurant that among other specialties is particularly known for its fruit and vegetable paper. Founded by textile designer Marjolein Wintjes and chef Eric Meuring, ‘ De Culinaire Werkplaats’ focuses on a blend of food, design and art.
A wide range of fruit and vegetable paper is homemade and used both in their dishes and for conceptual art work. Each meal at the restaurant highlights one of the flavored papers during its five courses.
Wintjes and Meuring have also used the paper in other projects, promoting the idea of sustainable fashion by creating clothing and accessories with the edible paper.
Practical lemon squeezer as utensil
16-6-2011
The Press Art lemon squeezer makes it easier to press the juice out of one lemon part. Apart from more juice it makes it easier to dose. The Press Art can be customized with a (company) logo.
Vivid coasters
16-6-2011
A Japanese designer (Terada Naoki) has designed a coaster set that creates a story around your glass. There are three different coasters that express various environments, namely the city (red), a grassy plain (green) and water (blue). By clever folding, the coasters can be combined to create your own scenery.
Drive-in 2.0
15-6-2011
A modern twist on the American drive-in movie theaters, is the bike-in movie theater, organized by marketing agency Manifold and food blog Forking Tasty. This free event, where hundreds of cyclists were attracted to, took place in Brooklyn, New York and was organized to celebrate summer and bike month. Due to the success more events like this one, will be organized.
Apple in the hotelroom
15-6-2011
The new Sofitel So Bangkok, yet to be opened, will be fully equipped with Apple equipment. All the 238 hotel rooms will feature an Apple Mac mini, an iPod, iPhone and iPad, which connects the guest directly to the hotel services. The hotel will open its doors in the first quarter of 2012.
Smart City Chase
15-6-2011
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On the 11th of June, the first Dutch Smart City Chase took place in Amsterdam. During this existing sports event, teams of 2 have to fulfill several missions all over the city, by using the internet, public transportation, friends and strangers. The first Smart City Chase took place in 2003 in Canada and became a great success.
Crowdsourced Mystery shopping through an app
15-6-2011
The Dutch location based marketing is thriving. After the introduction of Repudo it’s now Roamler that launches an app for location based messages. Members of this community can earn money and points with the assessment of products, filling in checklists or writing reviews. Heineken uses the app to check the presentation of their Coolcan in the supermarkets this summer. The City of Amsterdam asks members to send in nice graffiti and has included several other assignments around the theme ‘a green environment’. The app is now available for a select group of 500 people.
Online vs. Offline
14-6-2011
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Ever thought of the way we network in the real life and how this differs from the online way of connecting…? Watch the movie!
Bike sauna
14-6-2011
This lightweight sauna is designed by H3T Architects, homebased in Prague. The funny thing is that this sauna can easily assembled to a bike, to bring it everywhere you want. This device consists of plywooded benches, plastic and textile and can accommodate 6 persons.
Old school; watching slides
14-6-2011
Having a nice ‘old school’ evening with fellow artists; that is the idea behind Slideluck Potshows. This event has come over from the United States and refers to ‘slideshows’ and ‘potlucks’; watching photo’s while eating homemade dinners. In June, the first Slideluck Potshow took place in Amsterdam. Over 200 people showed interest. The next event will take place in October.
Populairity breastaurants
14-6-2011
Sex sells, even in the recession. This so-called ‘breastaurants’ are very populair in the United States and it even seems to be one of the fastest-growing restaurant categories. These are restaurants that features scantily-clad women as waitresses.
Beer commercial for real men
12-6-2011
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Funny beer commercial of Hahn Superdry beer. Brewed for real men.
Run your own hotel on Facebook
11-6-2011
The international hotel chain Marriott launched a game for Facebook. You become the General Manager of your own hotel. With this game, which is similar to games such as FarmVille and CityVille, you earn points when your guests are satisfied, but you lose points when your guests leave your hotel unhappy. With this game, Marriott tries to increase interest in careers with the group and in hospitality in general.
