Trends we spotted this week – week 20

20-5-2016

At the redaction of 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, an article about sneakair who made a shoe which can help you find your way, getting high in Amsterdam with cannabis chocolates and a DIY kit to make your own wine! Perfect for the winelovers! If you like to read the whole article, click the title. Enjoy reading! read more

Wheelys, a full service café on wheels

5-2-2015

Wheelys is a full service café on wheels. The bike serves coffee, tea, cold drinks, juices, pastries, fruits, salads and sandwiches. Everyone can buy the bike and ride through the city, the only thing that you have to do is to pay a small monthly fee. We wonder how how it is regulated in these countries with the licenses.

Wheelys

There are several advantages of the café on wheels. You will have minimal startup costs, minimal running costs, it is ECO-friendly, healthy and very profitable. With one single Wheelys you can earn up to $700,= in one day. In the first four months that Wheelys has been around they sold more than 30 cafés to more than 10 countries.

The café was founded by Thomas Mazetti, former head of a successful advertising agency. He brought other thought leaders from Scandinavian superbrands like IKEA and H&M in to his team. Together they created Wheelys.

Zuidas Amsterdam pop-up store

12-2-2014

The municipality of Amsterdam appointed four locations for pop-up stores at the ‘Zuidas’, near Amsterdam Zuid train station. From 1 May onwards the locations are available to unique concepts that complement the existing offer for six months. All competitors, with both food as well as non-food concepts, can send in their plans before 5 March 2014. The four winners will be announced on 13 March. Perhaps the area will be enriched with a test sleep facility, a tasting area or a collaboration between local entrepreneurs like we’ve seen in the West of Amsterdam.

Refreshment in the city

9-8-2012

In the Portuguese city Guimarães, LIKEarchitects and fashion designer Ricardo Dourado are providing enough refreshment. Fountains of the city are transformed to mini swimming pools. These Fountain Hacks won the Performance Architecture award for urban interventions, part of the European Capital of Culture.

Dog parking bays

9-8-2012

The German IKEA Köln-Am Butzweilerhof offers dog parking bays, since the IKEA introduced a no-dog policy. Dogs will have a comfortable waiting space, while his owners can shop tranquilly. The parking bays feature a grass mat and drinking bowl.

Surprise toilet visit

10-5-2012

Great promotional campaign of Ikea for their bathroom articles at the Salone Internationale del Mobile in Milan.

Coffee with a text message

13-4-2012

A simple coffee machine built in an IKEA cabinet. Send a text message with “coffee” or “latte”and the Textspresso makes a cup of coffee for you. Soon, the machine also features a printer with edible ink, so you can get foam on your coffee.

Lego kitchen

9-3-2012

Munchausen, a duo formed by Parisian designers Simon Pillard and Philippe Rosetti, took a bold approach with their own kitchen by venturing to IKEA spending the next week covering a basic IKEA kitchen island with more than 20,000 Lego bricks. Click for more photo’s of the Lego kitchen.

Cooking attributes and crockery in bird flight

19-1-2012

Photographer Carl Kleiner and stylist Evelina Kleiner created the book for IKEA (which we had previously written about) captured the ingredients in a very graphic way in a picture. Now they are busy with another project for IKEA: cooking attributes and crockery, again from a bird flight perspective. Minimalism at its finest. See the cooking attributes and crockery in bird flight here.

Cubi living-cube

27-11-2010

The Cubi is a kind of Ikea kit, developed by TomorrowToday. The Cubi is composed of five prefabricated modules where you can sleep, wash, work and cook. The Cubi can be built in one day and together they form a complete apartment or in large quantities even a hotel. Starting next year, Cubi’s are located in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Groningen and Eindhoven.