Mandira London, the UK’s first fresh yoghurt bar found a gap in the market for on-the-go fresh yoghurt bowls, inspired by European cuisine. Launched earlier this year, by Deyvi Sidi-Sarfati and Georg Keller, Mandira London is the first of its kind to open in the city, bringing with it a Mediterranean twist on how we […]
The Big Bang Fair challenged a team of inventors, scientists and musicians to make a delicious beverage with music. The result was the world’s first ever milkshakes mixed entirely with sound energy from live music. The music-made beverages were not the result of mellow pop tunes by Justin Bieber or Ed Sheeran however, but the […]
On the heels of Apple’s announcement of the next generation iPhone, powered by iOS 11 with ARKit, Patrón Tequila is taking iPhone users on an interactive journey to its home in Jalisco, Mexico. Titled “The Patrón Experience,” this newly released, augmented reality platform heralds the next frontier in experiential marketing and gives tequila connoisseurs and curious […]
During this summer the Coca-Cola bottles’ labels promoted over 90 different holiday destinations. To activate this locally, Coca-Cola in Sweden chose to highlight some of the Swedish destinations on the labels. Sweden is renowned for its many different local dialects, with clear phonetic and grammatical characteristics that can be irreconcilable, even for Swedes. And so, […]
China has become the first nation to embrace facial recognition technology to authorise digital payments following an innovative play by Alibaba to ease queues in local KFC restaurants. The so-called ‘smile to pay’ service has been introduced in the city of Huangzhou as part of a trial with the chicken chain to boost the customer […]
If you’re into Instagram food porn, you’ll know how hungry you can get by just looking at people’s mouthwatering posts. So, in Brazil, Heinz capitalised on this by enabling Instagram users to actually eat the delicious food posts they were drooling over. The so-called “Irresistible Posts” campaign, created by ad agency Africa with the support […]
BuzzFeed’s foodie content platform Tasty has launched the Tasty One Top, a bluetooth-enabled induction cooktop. In an interesting move for a media company, Buzzfeed’s latest media rethink involves bringing its foodie platform Tasty into the kitchen with the launch of a smart appliance. Currently only available on pre-order in the US, the One Top connects […]
July marks one year since Nestlé launched HENRi, its open innovation platform designed to help support startups and entrepreneurs in addressing specific business and brand challenges. Its aim is to revolutionise the nutrition, health and wellness sectors, enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Already in the past year, HENRi has attracted […]
A South Yorkshire commercial kitchen specialist has been given the backing of Simon Rimmer after impressing the celebrity chef with its powerful new VR (virtual reality) investment, which he believes will transform the way in which commercial kitchens are developed. Lloyd Catering Equipment, which counts some of the UK’s best known restaurant and pub companies […]
Beverage giant Coca-Cola is giving the world’s dumb vending machines an AI-powered makeover in a bid to banish jammed change slots, broken dispensers and other malfunctions to the dim and distant past. Going way beyond a colourful touchscreen, Coca-Cola harbours visions of infusing the humourless lumps of metal, electronics and glass with a personality – […]