A Finger Lickin’ Chicken Mitten Bucket Hugger by KFC

11-11-2021

  • KFC - Finger Lickin’ Chicken Mitten Bucket HuggerKFC - Finger Lickin’ Chicken Mitten Bucket Hugger
  • KFC - Finger Lickin’ Chicken Mitten Bucket HuggerKFC - Finger Lickin’ Chicken Mitten Bucket Hugger
  • KFC - Holiday Season packagingKFC - Holiday Season packaging

To celebrate the upcoming holiday season, Kentucky Fried Chicken® is unveiling winter’s hottest dining accessory – a limited-edition and original Finger Lickin’ Chicken Mitten Bucket Hugger, to turn your bucket of KFC’s world-famous fried chicken into the ultimate holiday must-have, according to their press release.

A combination of a new Holiday Bucket and a sweater for this bucket to keep the bucket and the hands of their fans warm! No longer available in the US but we loved the idea, a combination of a ‘ugly Christmas sweater’ with a big plus for fans of your brand. It’s great inspiration for upgrading the ugly Christmas sweaters from the past, a ‘sweater + mitten’ for warm drinks or buckets of food.  

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‘Lecker Chess Tournament’ in Utrecht

9-11-2021

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  • Bierbrouwerij De LeckereBierbrouwerij De Leckere

Yesterday the ‘Lecker Schaken Schaaktoernooi’ (Lecker Chess Tournament) started in Utrecht (The Netherlands). The ‘Lecker  Chess Tournament’ lasts four weeks and has been organized by the ‘De Leckere Brewery’ in collaboration with local cafes and restaurants.

Great idea to organize at a local level, we also happen to know people who started playing chess again after seeing the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit. And great that after a lot of online quizzes we can finally play a board game with each other again! By organizing it on the first days of the week, the De Leckere brewery creates an extra source of income for the catering industry. Inspiration for other cities? Or some bars?

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NL Delivery Game | Meal deliverers safer and more aware on the road

9-11-2021

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Since the corona pandemic, the number of meal deliveries in the Netherlands has increased excessively. According to the Food Service Institute Netherlands (FSIN), this market grew by 37% compared to 2019. This development is leading to an increasing number of meal delivery in the industry, especially the 16 to 24 year old age group. According to Veilig Verkeer Nederland (the Safe Traffic Association Netherlands (VVN), this age group takes more risks in traffic, which means that they are more likely to be involved in accidents. To prevent this, the Dutch Association of Meal Delivery Services (NLVVM) has created the NL Delivery Game. The initiators – consisting of ten large delivery chains – join forces and launched this training game for the more than 20,000 meal deliverers they employ. In the game, the traffic and behavioral rules of the Safe Traffic Association Netherlands are tested. Resulting in more meal deliverers safer on the road and more aware in traffic.

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New Amarula cream liqueurs | Liqueur with a story

9-11-2021

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  • Amarula likeurenAlle (+ nog te lanceren) Amarula likeuren

The range of South African Amarula cream liqueurs has expanded with the arrival of two new flavors. The first Amarula vegan cream liqueur has the recognizable taste of the rare marula fruit, combined with coconut, caramel and vanilla. Unlike the other variants of the liqueur, the vegan Amarula contains no dairy. Another new flavor will be launched at the end of this year: Ethiopian Coffee, a deliciously creamy liqueur with a coffee flavour.

Last week I went to Rotterdam for Horecatrends to taste the new Amarula flavors. I had never tasted Amarula before, but I had heard of the brand. Normally I’m not a cream liqueur lover, but the Amarula liqueurs have now become the exception for me! My favourite? The new flavor: Ethiopian Coffee. ^Sifra Holtslag

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Trends we spotted | Week 45

8-11-2021

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At horecatrends.com or hospitalitytrends.eu we spot many national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write about, the other trends we use in our weekly column ‘Trends we spotted this week’.

With this week links to articles about Roboat, which is ready for self-driving pilots on the canals of Amsterdam and can you imagine a ‘candies whopper’ created by Burger King Puerto Rico? This is also the last inspiration for Halloween 2022 this year, we promise. 😉

 We’re slowly getting in the Christmas mood, Starbucks introduced their seasonal drinks and seasonal red cups 2021 and we spotted Christmas ornaments made from sugar with a 3D printer by Sugar Lab.

A link to a press release by VTT Research about Cellular agriculture from Finland, they created lab-grown coffee! And here in Amsterdam the theater group ‘De Theatertroep’ recently created its own water brand: L’EAU POUR L’ART.

After Amsterdam, Rotterdam now has its own ‘Hotel Not Hotel’, a place where a room isn’t just a room, but a work of art!

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Kitchen robot Flippy 2 | Increase efficiency in the QSR sector

4-11-2021

  • Kitchen Robot Flippy 2 - credits Miso RoboticsKitchen Robot Flippy 2 - credits Miso Robotics

Miso Robotics, a start-up company that is transforming the foodservice industry with robotics, revealed their newest model of their Flippy: kitchen robot Flippy 2. With the help of all the learnings at one of the restaurants of the QSR brand White Castle of Flippy 1, the newer model takes over the work for an entire frying station and is able to perform twice as much food preparation tasks compared to the previous model.

An ideal employee for in your QSR kitchen! Do you want to read more on robots in the hospitality world, check out our articles on robots here

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Trends we spotted | Week 44

1-11-2021

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At horecatrends.com or hospitalitytrends.eu we spot many national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write about, the other trends we use in our weekly column ‘Trends we spotted this week’.

With this week links to articles about the pop-up ‘Vurger King’ in Madrid, this Burger King location will serve only meat-free items. And Ruby Hotels outlines their Asia expansion plans.

The Accor group will also be entering the house rental market, the accor-residences.com website shows the group’s selected collection of homes.

Last weekend was Halloween, which is also becoming more popular in Europe. Some Halloween  inspiration for 2022: ‘Haunted House of Fryght’ by Wendy’s, ‘Haunted Restaurant with Fright Castle Takeover’ by White Castle and in Paris you could go to a Halloween party at ‘Le Manoir de Paris’.

You can enjoy the afternoon tea, Prêt-à-Portea autumn/winter 2021 collection, again in The Berkeley hotel! And recently the Chiaro restaurant opened in the Rocco Forte Hotel de Rome in Berlin. Here chef Tim Mälzer developed an Italian cuisine with Japanese elements.

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Pop-up Petit Latour by Ruinart | Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin

29-10-2021

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  • Petit Latour Ruinart ChampagnebarPetit Latour Ruinart Champagnebar in hotel Huis ter Duin
  • Petit Latour Ruinart ChampagnebarPetit Latour Ruinart Champagnebar in hotel Huis ter Duin
  • Petit Latour Ruinart ChampagnebarPetit Latour Ruinart Champagnebar in hotel Huis ter Duin
  • Petit Latour Ruinart ChampagnebarPetit Latour Ruinart Champagnebar in hotel Huis ter Duin
  • Petit Latour Ruinart ChampagnebarPetit Latour Ruinart Champagnebar in hotel Huis ter Duin

This week, Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin in Noordwijk opened a temporary champagne bar: Petit Latour by Ruinart. Located on the first floor of the iconic hotel, this stylish champagne bar is open til the end of February next year. At Petit Latour it is possible to order various special champagnes with matching French dishes, such as crostinis with salmon and Gillardeau oyster with champagne-mignonette. The bites are created by chef Marcel van Lier of big brother restaurant Latour, the restaurant of Huis ter Duin, which has been awarded a Michelin star. Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin is located at the coast of the Nord Sea, half a hour drive from Amsterdam.

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Opening of Brasserie Bruis in Haarlem

29-10-2021

  • Brasserie Bruis HaarlemBrasserie Bruis Haarlem - credits Ivo Geskus @SpecialPixels
  • Jozua Jaring en Bas Averdijk - Brasserie BruisJozua Jaring en Bas Averdijk - Brasserie Bruis - credits Ivo Geskus @SpecialPixels
  • Brasserie Bruis HaarlemBrasserie Bruis Haarlem - credits Ivo Geskus @SpecialPixels
  • Brasserie Bruis HaarlemBrasserie Bruis Haarlem - credits Ivo Geskus @SpecialPixels

Disclaimer: directed more towards Dutchies. But if you’re living in the vicinity of Haarlem this might be a brasserie you have to visit!

Opening – Chef-owner Jozua Jaring and maître Bas Averdijk of Michelin star restaurant Ratatouille Food & Wine in Haarlem will open their Brasserie Bruis in Haarlem on November 3, 2021. The brasserie is located at Lange Veerstraat 15, where the Petossi restaurant used to be. Bruis is an informal brasserie where guests can enjoy high-quality international brasserie dishes, a snack and a good glass of wine.

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Exclusive 30yrs old Barrel Aged Genever | Filliers Distillery

28-10-2021

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  • Filliers jenever HorecatrendsFilliers Barrel Aged 30yrs

The French have their cognac, the Russians have their vodka and the Scots have their whisky. And Belgium? Gin(Jenever)! Jenever is therefore something typical for the ‘Low Countries’; the Netherlands and Belgium. Jenever comes across as ‘a popular trend’ to many and cannot match the premium image of cognac, gin or whiskey. But this is not right. The history of jenever or in English genever, goes back 500 years and reads like an exciting book. A history with many ‘up & downs’, in which the drink has fortunately always existed and in which the Belgian Filliers, a family distillery, has played an important role for 140 years. The Belgian distillery now markets the oldest and most exclusive grain genever, ‘Filliers Barrel Aged Genever’ 30 years old!

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Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort | Caribbean’s only CO2-neutral hotel shares framework for sustainable holidays

28-10-2021

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  • Bucuti & Tara Beach ResortBucuti & Tara Beach Resort on sustainability
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  • Bucuti & Tara Beach ResortBeach clean up at Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort
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It’s been 29 years since the world-famous UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and Ewald Biemans, owner/CEO of Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort in Aruba, is still as inspired as the day he heard the call to action made to the world at that conference. As an passionate news follower, Biemans read and watched all the coverage he could find about the summit in 1992 on the tiny island of Aruba. The conference, which he described as ‘a wake-up call’, accelerated his efforts to what has been awarded the Caribbean’s most ecologically and first CO2-neutral hotel since 2018 and eventually led to an award from the United Nations in 2020: the prestigious Global UN 2020 Climate Action Award for Climate Neutral Now.

This year, Ewald Biemans has been invited to be one of speakers at the 26th annual UN climate conference – the Conference of the Parties or COP26 – which will take place from 1 to 12 November 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland and is expected to attract 30,000 attendees. COP26 is considered the world’s most important climate change conference in the race to keep the temperature rise within 1.5°C as mentioned in the 2015 Paris agreement. The importance grows with just nine years to go before the ecological consequences would be catastrophic and irreversible.

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Sagardi Amsterdam introduces | Esentzia Sagardi

26-10-2021

  • Esentzia SagardiRundertong sandwich & gerijpte rundercarpaccio met rode garnalen - Esentzia Sagardi
  • Esentzia SagardiEsentzia Sagardi - vlees van de Baskische grill
  • Esentzia SagardiAnanas met vanille en caramel - het dessert van Esentzia Sagardi
  • Mikel en Iñaki López de Viñaspre and Gregorio TolosaMikel en Iñaki López de Viñaspre and Gregorio Tolosa

Sagardi Amsterdam is the place to be for the most beautiful products from the Basque Country, prepared on Sagardi’s own unique Basque grill. In the original style passed down from generation to generation. Pure, honest and prepared with a lot of love and fire. To honour the culinary treasures and rich traditions of their native soil, Sagardi has created a new tradition: Esentzia Sagardi. A recurring culinary event in which one product takes the central stage in a menu specially created for this purpose. The first edition, which will take place from the 2nd to the 28th of November, will focus on Galician beef.

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Trends we spotted | Week 43

26-10-2021

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  • REEF KitchensREEF Kitchens
  • horeca trendsTrends in het kort - Trends we spotted

At horecatrends.com or hospitalitytrends.eu we spot many national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write about, the other trends we use in our weekly column ‘Trends we spotted this week’.

With this week links to articles about… ‘The Great Feast’ in The Old Selfridges Hotel in London and Dole suggest carving a pineapple instead of a pumpkin for Halloween. 😉  With a downloadable pineapple Jack-O’-Lantern carving template!

REEF has a great view on redesigning urban spaces in communities hubs and REEF Kitchens uses a unique real estate strategy to its advantage. They opened the first two ghosts kitchens of Wendy’s in the UK. Furthermore, they will open 700 ghost kitchens in the USA, Canada and the UK.  

And some sustainable inspiration for sustainable building: the De Halo building in San Francisco made of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) and the HAUT building in Amsterdam. And a link to an sustainable fabric for carpets and flooring: Econyl. Just as strong as nylon and made of recycled waste.

A design graduate from the Eindhoven Design Academy in the Netherlands, has created a project to highlight how renewable energy derived from tomato vines could be used to run a cloud server. And a link to an article about artfully Cannabis-infused confections.

In the Netherlands, women’s average gross hourly earnings are 14% lower than men’s, which seemed entirely outdated to De Koffiejongens. So they ask men to voluntarily pay more… And the Franz Fisher ‘Alpenhütte’ in Austria is the first mountain restaurant to serve vegan-vegetarian dishes only.

We spotted a new chain in the USA: The Sweet Paris Creperie & Café with cafes in Houston and one in Mexico opens new locations in Miami.

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First edition Amsterdam Taco Festival | One big tasty fiesta!

26-10-2021

  • Taco FestivalThe Amsterdam Taco Festival - credits LVF
  • Amsterdam Taco FestivalThe Amsterdam Taco Festival - credits LVF Food
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  • Taiyari tortillasTaiyari tortillas - credits bySam.nl

Disclaimer: directed more to Dutchies. But if you’re living in or visiting Amsterdam on November the 20th and 21st, this might be the place to go!

You don’t have to fly all the way to Mexico to immerse yourself in the Mexican culture, because this fall, Mexico is coming to Amsterdam! On Saturday the 20th and Sunday the 21st of November 2021, the very first edition of the Amsterdam Taco Festival will take place inside the monumental building “Het Sieraad” at Postjesweg 1 in Amsterdam West. The festival starts at 11 a.m. on both days!

To spread the visitors throughout the day, time slots are used to enter. So you can select a certain entrance time. Once inside you can stay as long as you want and enjoy all the different Mexican snacks. In this article you will find a link to where you can book your tickets.

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The Dutch company Huls introduces vegan dry sausages

25-10-2021

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Disclaimer: more interesting for Dutchies. But it might still be inspiring to read…

A sausage is an appetizer that cannot be missed, anywhere. But especially not in the Netherlands. The Dutch company Huls, specialist in sausages, created two varieties of vegan dry sausage for the vegans, vegetarians and flexitarians.

Huls is located in the North of the Netherlands in the region Groningen and has been making dry meat sausages for over a 100 years. In this article you’ll read about the recently created vega(n) varieties.

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