Wendy’s launches first Airport location in Canada at YVR

Wendy’s launches first Airport location in Canada at YVR

Travellers in and out of Vancouver’s YVR airport will now have the opportunity to pick up a Hot ‘N Juicy™ hamburger or fresh cup of Redhead Roasters coffee as Wendy’s opens its first airport site,  the restaurant’s 369th location in Canada. To mark the occasion, owners Dave and Marianna Mah will make a donation to […]

SMOKE Liqueur, A Premium Ready-To-Drink Cocktail, To Hit Shelves June 2013

SMOKE Liqueur, A Premium Ready-To-Drink Cocktail, To Hit Shelves June 2013

An innovative spirit, made with a unique blend of top-shelf vodka, pineapple, coconut and Moscato, SMOKE Liqueur blends two of the most popular trends in the spirits industry today – Ready-To-Drink cocktails and Moscato, the fastest growing wine category in the United States. Combining the finest ingredients, this extraordinary liqueur has a rich heritage fusing […]

Coffee Chain Prints Customers’ Faces On Their Lattes

To attract more customers from bigger, more established coffee chains, Taiwanese coffee chain Let’s Café decided to print its customers’ faces on their lattes. Using a special coffee printer, customers could upload their photos to the machine, and the printer will instantly reproduce their image using cocoa powder. Are latte portraits the future of coffee?

World’s Most Luxurious Club Sandwich

World’s Most Luxurious Club Sandwich

Inspired by the launch of the 2013 Hotels.com Club Sandwich Index, the five-star Hullett House Hotel in Hong Kong has partnered with Hotels.com to create the world’s most luxurious Club Sandwich. Setting customers back a mouthwatering $62 (HKD480), the culinary creation may be more expensive than those in Geneva, which topped the annual Club Sandwich Index […]

W+K Amsterdam’s Heineken Ad Wins Cannes Lions Grand Prix, Creative

A Heineken ad campaign from Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam, the brand’s first global campaign effort, has won the Cannes Lions Grand Prix award in the creative effectiveness category, festival organizers confirmed. Separately, a campaign from McCann Melbourne for Metro Trains called “Dumb Ways to Die,” won the Grand Prix in the direct category and a […]

‘Traffic Light’ Food Labelling System Finally Rolls Out

‘Traffic Light’ Food Labelling System Finally Rolls Out

A consistent ‘traffic light’ system for providing nutritional food labelling is finally rolling out, following several years of development. The system will combine red, amber and green colour-coding and nutritional information to show how much fat, saturated fat, salt and sugar and calories are in foods. The system is based on ‘traffic light’ designs that […]

Maple Syrup Crop Delivers Both Quantity & Quality

Maple Syrup Crop Delivers Both Quantity & Quality

The weather cooperated with the maple run this year, creating just the right temperatures to get the sap flowing throughout March and April in all of Quebec’s maple-producing regions. The result is a bumper year for maple syrup. With the sole exception of the week of March 14-21, where even Quebec’s maples were granted a […]