Horecava 2009 - SCOOPS
HORECAVA 2009
 
Edition 9 – August 19, 2008
Game combines wine tasting en tryvertising >> More high-end dessert trucks >> Barcelona hotels reserves rooms for a siesta >> More homegrown veggies without the sweat >> Best Buy starts vending at airports >>
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U heeft zich aangemeld voor de Horecava nieuwsbrief. Horecava Scoops biedt u een overzicht van de laatste internationale ontwikkelingen, vandaar dat u de tekst in het Engels aantreft. We maken hierbij gebruik van de content van Springwise, zodat u gegarandeerd de laatste innovatieve ideeën 'from around the globe' ontvangt.

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Beursmanager Horecava

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Game combines wine tasting en tryvertising
Encouraging people to organize their own wine tasting parties, 4xProeven (Tastingx4) combines a board game with a four-pack of wine.

The concept is simple: four small (0.375 litre) bottles of red wine are packaged in a carton that folds out to a board. Four blank stickers are included to hide the bottles' labels. A leaflet explains the basic elements of wine tasting: look, smell, taste and compare.

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More high-end dessert trucks
We've written on a few different occasions already about upscale ice-cream trucks aimed at grown-ups (one in Los Angeles and one in the UK), and now New Yorkers are getting in on the mobile dessert action with a few different trucks that deliver high-end ice cream and baked confections.

The Treats Truck, for one, uses its two trucks — aptly named "Sugar" and "Dot" — to sell cookies, brownies and...
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Barcelona hotel reserves rooms for a siesta
We've featured several companies that appeal to a growing appreciation of the benefits of napping, from a New York sleep salon to napping cocoons at airports. So we were intrigued by news that a hotel in Barcelona — the Hilton Diagonal Mar — has set aside 40 of its 433 rooms this summer for anyone who'd like to take a siesta.
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More homegrown veggies without the sweat
When we wrote about San Francisco-based My Farm earlier this summer, we noted that Oregon-based Your Backyard Farmer had reportedly been doing something similar for a few years already. Sure enough, turns out the two-woman company began installing organic gardens throughout the Portland, Milwaukie and Lake Oswego areas of Oregon back in 2006.
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Best Buy starts vending at airports
Electronics retailer Best Buy has installed vending machines at 8 major US airports. It's a pilot program for the company's new Best Buy Express kiosks, which are large vending machines that carry cell phone and computer accessories, digital cameras, flash drives, MP3 players, headphones, gaming devices, travel adapters, and other items that are likely to appeal to customers on the go. Prices are similar to those in Best Buy stores.
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