Together with the Finnish company PowerKiss, McDonald’s is developing special tables to recharge your phone automatically when you put him on the table. By using the QI technology and a wireless power transmission the tables can transfer power to phones and / or headsets. At this moment, McDonald’s is testing the tables in Europe.
Bistro ‘Le Repas’ in Brazil is offering a free salad for any guest who rides his or her bike to the bistro in reward for being green. Sommelier Karen Ferrari was inspired by the number of cyclists she saw on a trip to Paris en introduced this action. The French-themed restaurant hopes that the reward will stimulate visitors to come by bike and also to inspire other companies to do something similar.
Class up your simple brown lunch bag with the waxed canvas lunch bags from ‘Peg and Awl’. The bags have sewn-in spot for handwritten notes to make it more special. Especially the handwritten notes or sayings are great to put even in a a plain brown lunch bag. And if you add a “free” item occasionally, your customers will know this rapidly by either word-of-mouth or through the social media.
Class up your simple brown lunch bag with the waxed canvas lunch bags from ‘Peg and Awl’. The bags have sewn-in spot for handwritten notes to make it more special. Especially the handwritten notes or sayings are great to put even in a a plain brown lunch bag. And if you add a “free” item occasionally, your customers will know this rapidly by either word-of-mouth or through the social media.
Class up your simple brown lunch bag with the waxed canvas lunch bags from ‘Peg and Awl’. The bags have sewn-in spot for handwritten notes to make it more special. Especially the handwritten notes or sayings are great to put even in a a plain brown lunch bag. And if you add a “free” item occasionally, your customers will know this rapidly by either word-of-mouth or through the social media.
Slow Food Italy conducted, together with a number of restaurants in Italy the campaign ‘Ne le Abbiamo tasche Ripiene!’ last week. This action (from March 6 until March the 17th) was launched to protest against the escalating incidence of food scandals. During this action chefs across the country prepared their traditional filled pasta dishes, revealed the recipe and the exact origin of the ingredients to their customers.
A phone call in the middle of the night: your best friend is in trouble. Would you go out and help him? Carlsberg tests some friendships. What would your friends do? Are they true mates?
The Australian design firm HASSELL designed the ‘Urban Coffee Farm and Brew Bar’ for the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. A total of 125 coffee trees have transformed the ‘Red Stairs’ (a popular public Amphitheatre in Melbourne) into a terraced coffee farm. Shipping containers, packaging crates and timber pallets have also been added to demonstrate the journey that coffee beans take. This will creates a unique experience while visitors sit among the trees sipping their coffee. More pictures at PSFK.
Enjoying the sun, swimming in the sea and in between drinking an Ice Tea.. That’s possible in Cape Town. At one of the trendiest beaches of Cape Town, Lipton Ice Tea has introduced the first driving vending machine in the world.
The Australian design firm HASSELL designed the ‘Urban Coffee Farm and Brew Bar’ for the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. A total of 125 coffee trees have transformed the ‘Red Stairs’ (a popular public Amphitheatre in Melbourne) into a terraced coffee farm. Shipping containers, packaging crates and timber pallets have also been added to demonstrate the journey that coffee beans take. This will creates a unique experience while visitors sit among the trees sipping their coffee. More pictures at PSFK.
Hong Kong-based Handy is leasing Android smartphones out to visitors, pre-loaded with free calls, 3G internet access and apps to help them navigate their destination. Handy provides users with the most up-to-date information and the latest happenings in Hong Kong. The smartphones can be picked up from the Hong Kong International Airport and it is possible to connect the phones with laptops to the internet and helps tourist avoid spending time looking for free wi-fi. Earlier we saw that tourist can hire a tablet with free wi-fi in Singapore and guests of the London’s Stratford Holiday Inn can use a Samsung Galaxy S III during their stay.
A nice new concept of molecular chef cook José Andrés. The cook has several restaurants in Washington and opened a cocktail bar named ‘Barmini’ in the space adjoining restaurant ‘Minibar’. More than one hundred artisan cocktails are crafted and served with the combination of art and science as well as tradition and technique. Earlier we saw that José Andrés applied his innovative style to the American cuisine at restaurant America Eats Tavern.
The new blog ‘Now you’re cooking’ developed by Electrolux, helps prepare the tastiest dishes. The blog collects cooking videos, exclusive ‘behind the scenes’ material and thus inspires food lovers. Often it is impossible to keep pace with the TV cook during cooking. You can turn the movies of ‘Now you’re cooking’ on the cooking mode, so you can easily cook at the same time as the chef cook. The video shows short pieces of text that will help you go through the cooking process and when you pause the video the cooking process is even step by step explained.
The famous red cups used in the United States are redesigned into a classy and fancy shape. The old red cups weren’t classy enough pouring wine into it so the Red Cup Living designed four new cups that debuted at the International Housewares Association show. The cups are also reusable.
A great announcement of a comedy festival that takes place from 27 March till 21 April in Melbourne. Well, maybe her husband isn’t that funny, but this commercial definitely is!
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Last week Waitrose supermarket in Great Britain started selling the pineberry. The white strawberry tastes like pineapple but looks like an unripe strawberry orignally grows in South America. Up to seven years ago the fruit was threatened with extinction. They are grown in Dutch greenhouses but the availability is limited in The Netherlands.
Designed by Jan Berstein from ’10 liter design’ in Germany. Fun for a modern tea shop.
Real eggs, empty and sterilized, filled with candy of your choice. Easy to make, the instructions can be found on the website of ‘the kitchn’.
After Nathalie Rykiel it was up to Karl Lagerfeld to design the new Coca Cola light bottle. He was also responsible for the commercial. Available from April 24th.
Convenient storage system for bottles of wine. The crates have 10 years guarantee and are made from recycled material.
For these awkward silent moments at dinner there are now origami napkins. Instead of boring your guests with useless conversations you can fold napkins in different origami figures.
Now you can make your daily espresso without using even a bit of energy. A combination of the right pressure and temperature makes the coffee.
Always wanted to take home the hotel room you stayed in? Now you can. Buy a DIY hotel suite kit and you will be able to buy everything from your hotelroom.
This month Bar Pepito opened, London’s first sherrybar. The owner’s mission: convert the English to drinking sherry. They serve several varieties of sherry, sherry cocktails and beer. Snacks are served as well.
Campaign by Evian; fashion photographer Nathaniel Goldberg photographed five models with these shirts for the campaign “Live Young”.
On St. Patrick’s Day, March 27th, the Chicago River turned green. McDonald’s did spill an “artful mint milkshake” into the water.
A new burger that is inspired by old-fashioned Frisian treats like peat smoked Frisian dry sausage, Beerenburg, Frisian “nagel”cheese, orange cake, sugarbread and Frisian Dumkes (anise cookies).
POM Wonderful is an American company with a products based on pomegranates. They sell juice, energy bars, fresh pomegranates, iced coffee and shots. Pomegranates are known for their high grade of antioxidants, very healthy!
A young industrial designer developed a new packaging for soft drinks. These packages create less waste during transportation and storage.
Cravendale has developed a milk jug that will warn you when the milk is sour. With a simple ph-sensor at the bottom of the jug, the acidity of the milk is measured to determine whether you can still drink the milk or not. On the outside an LCD screen that indicates whether the milk is fresh or sour.
On average a person uses 2,500 paper towels a year. To prevent garbage People Towels made a towel that you can use several times. A personal towel from 100% organic Fair Trade cotton to ensure that the use of paper decreases. 1% of sales goes to “1% for the Planet”.
Hidden bars, usually cocktail bars. You will find them in all major cities in the world. You need to be a member, have a reservation or you need a password to obtain access. To enter the “Please Do not Tell” bar you have to go through a hidden door in a phone booth near a hot dog stand. The rule that applies: behave as a mature men / women.
At the international airport of Hong Kong a Martell cognac boutique opened. This is the second shop by Martell cognac. The shop is very tastefully furnished as a boutique and also gives the customer the chance to actually taste the cognacs.
Guillaume Pérusse, student design at the UQAM, invented a ring of dough that keeps spaghetti together. In a pan of boiling water the edible ring slip off so the spaghetti is cooked separately.
Good news for lovers of bling-bling and / or people who like to experiment with their food. With the Food Spray of Esslack you can apply a layer of edible silver or gold to your food. Let’s see if people really put their teeth into it.
This Mortlach 70 whiskey from Scotland is officially the world’s oldest whiskey. This whiskey is 70 years old and has an alcohol content of 46.1%. A total of 54 large and 162 small bottles are produced. The large bottles are sold for £ 9,999 while the smaller bottles are solf for £ 2,499.
Student José Luis García Eguiguren impresses with this spiral shaped vodka bottles, each matching a different emotion. The colors and flavors do indicate the emotion, so you can always drink a vodka no matter how you feel.
These water bottles by Water 321 contain built-in water filters that will make tap water taste like spring water from a bottle. You can use the filter up to 50 times.
In this saladbar, based in France, the assortment consists of fruit cocktails, ice cream, salads and fresh juices. The guest makes his own meals from a choice of over 40 ingredients.
In Japan, KitKat launched special Japanese bars. KitKat has been inspired by local specialties. There are 19 different flavors and the different bars are only available in the areas on which the taste of the bar is based.
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