Catering
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Chef's LifeFebruary 24, 2021MONO MEAT MANIAIn an age of growing scepticism about meat, single cuts have the power to define entire restaurant mono-concepts. They embody perfect craftsmanship and transparency, and are often significantly cheaper than what are considered to be high-end pieces. How a tough cut...
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ManagementFebruary 15, 2021The winners, the losers and the virusCorona has terrorized us long enough. Time to refocus on a positive future and dare to take a gastronomic glance at 2021.
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Chef's LifeFebruary 8, 2021Deep frozen blast chilledThe techniques have been commonplace for some time now. But freezing and blast chilling can do more than extend food shelf lives - they’re also a great way of making kitchens more efficient.
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Chef's LifeFebruary 1, 2021Seaweed – the answer to everything"Not only is this ocean superfood extremely healthy, it also can solve both global food and environmental problem," says the young Irish marine biologist, Paul O'Connor. With his startup "This is Seaweed" he's looking for possible ways to bring this tasty...
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ManagementJanuary 27, 2021Workplace dining: why foodservice must adaptWith next to no office staff to serve, foodservice in the workplace largely ceased to exist as Covid-19 spread across the world. Post-pandemic it needs to be flexible to fit a market segment in flux.
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ManagementJanuary 19, 2021First and best meal of the dayAs more people now work from home, many experiencing a commute of minutes rather than hours, what will happen to the breakfast-to-go market?
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Chef's LifeJanuary 14, 2021Celebrating 2020’s heroes of hospitalityThe world over, 2020 was a year to write-off as a bad memory for most, but we must pause to reflect on the game-changing contributions to the industry by some extraordinary individuals.
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ManagementJanuary 12, 202110 key foodservice trends in 2021The year 2020 was a year for the industry to forget, but a New Year brings new hope. It also brings new trends – plus, the continuation of some current ones into 2021.
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ManagementDecember 21, 2020Sowing the seeds of successPlant-based food is proving to be a growing and lucrative profit center for operators worldwide. Alongside the future potential in lab-grown meats, the market represents an opportunity big brands can no longer keep off the menu.
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ManagementDecember 16, 2020Coping with the crisisAs we near the end of 2020 and the development of three vaccines against Covid-19 gives hope to us all, we explore the inevitable changes this past year has brought to the foodservice landscape
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ManagementDecember 3, 2020Certainty in change: predicting the next decade‘Sure things’ might be easier to predict when the going is good, but how impacted are long-term restaurant trends when a global crisis strikes?
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Chef's LifeNovember 30, 2020Goose easy peasyWe used to say the way to win a man's heart is through his stomach. However, these days it's all about comfort food. In other words, food that is tasty, comforting and indulgent, food that evokes the past with the same...
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Kitchen 4.xNovember 26, 2020Ghostly growth: the rise of dark kitchensThe growth of dark or ghost kitchens has accelerated in this challenging year as the delivery-only concept has provided foodservice operators with a different way to trade during the pandemic.
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ManagementNovember 20, 2020Ready for all three phases of the pandemicCorona comes in waves, and the measures imposed constantly keep us on our toes. At times everything is under control and restrictions are lifted for the most part. However, at other times lockdown measures are adapted according to the current situation...
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Chef's LifeNovember 9, 2020Zero waste: empty organic waste containers are the futureUnited Against Waste, in cooperation with the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna and the University of Applied Sciences, Oberösterreich, has investigated the sources and causes of food waste. These are the results:
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Chef's LifeOctober 28, 2020A menu à la food wasteFood waste and disposable tableware are not necessary. With their project Wasteware, Kilga and Gollacker demonstrate how sustainable design and cuisine can happen. In Europe, almost 90 million tons of food are thrown away, and about 30 million tons of waste...
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InnovatorsOctober 26, 2020The ocean rescuersEveryone is talking about meat substitutes, but what about fish substitutes? This is actually a no-brainer, since overfishing of the world's oceans has long been an issue. At least that is what Julian Hallet thinks. He is a co-founder of Happy...
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ManagementOctober 21, 2020Five tips for a personal brandKTCHNrebel gives tips on how to create a personal brand in five steps.
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ManagementOctober 13, 2020Saving the world spoon by spoonEating well and saving the climate – an impossible task? Not at all! Those who embark on a well-informed journey into the future of gastronomy will still be at the forefront tomorrow and beyond. The digital conference HolyTisch was full of...
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Chef's LifeOctober 8, 2020Vintage cooking, contemporary methodSometimes gastronomy behaves like the fashion industry: more and more trends in less and less time. And then, there are things that become timeless. Such as vintage fashion. Or smoking food. But what is behind the trend of re-energizing an apparently...
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Kitchen 4.xOctober 5, 2020A tasteful step into the futureThese are the times. Nobody knows what it will be like tomorrow, let alone the day after tomorrow. It is futile to ask what gastronomy will look like in the next few decades, what we should get ready for and how...
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Chef's LifeOctober 1, 2020Plant-based seafood. The plant-based shrimp on trial.The small, salmon-red shrimp slides into the hot oil with a juicy sizzling sound. An unmistakable roasting aroma immediately. Fake wafts through the kitchen, and the gourmet's mouth starts watering. Various recipes with chili, garlic, sea salt and olive oil come...
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Chef's LifeSeptember 17, 2020The meat of the matterCarrie Chan CEO of Avant Meats discusses the science behind the most sustainable and energy efficient alternative to meat production: cultivated meat. In 2015, businesswoman Carrie Chan went vegan. Soon after, she realized that the threats to the planet posed by...
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Kitchen 4.xSeptember 15, 2020Urban food: How agriculture is becoming an urban economic systemIn the future, food production will move closer to consumers – right into cities, supermarkets and restaurants. It doesn't get fresher or more local than this!
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Chef's LifeSeptember 10, 2020Just what the doctor orderedHow one Illinois food hall is serving up not just a great variety of food, but unique opportunities for female and minority-owned businesses. Offering a delicious array of flavors all under one roof, with the ease and comfort of a communal...
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Chef's LifeAugust 13, 2020The New age of food – How is convenience created?How is convenience created? What really matters during production? We offer an exclusive look behind the scenes in this industry, which was so forward-looking in the days of Corona, and let you know what ghost kitchens, roasting lines and meat cubers...
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ManagementAugust 3, 2020A glance into the culinary crystal ball: Hanni Rützler’s Food ReportA look back: In many ways, Hanni Rützler's Food Report is a lot like Santa Claus: you can hardly wait to see what goodies are in store for you. This year Rützler surprised us yet again by offering up a new...
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ManagementJuly 28, 2020The future is now!In an exclusive interview, Harry Gatterer, Managing Director of the "Zukunftsinstitut" reveals how Corona has changed the working world forever - and why the gastronomy industry may be headed for a battle in the trenches...
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ManagementJuly 22, 2020How to become an outstanding brand for hospitalityEdward Francis ditched his A levels to learn more about food, wine, design, branding and all the other ingredients of an unforgettable hospitality experience. In 2015 he felt good enough to set up his Rebel Agency and gradually evolved his business...
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Chef's LifeJuly 20, 2020Bauhaus for restauranteursRené Redzepi’s already written history. Now he’s moving on to textbooks. Noma revolutionized Scandinavian cuisine by drawing inspiration from a Swedish Army survival handbook; now its owner has his eyes on a very different prize. In 2011, seeking new ways to...
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ManagementJune 10, 2020How will news be spread around the world?On the 5th of May RATIONAL, world market leader concerning the topic of combi-steamers, presented its latest model: the iCombi Pro. For the first time exclusively online. KTCHNrebel interviewed Michael Fink, Executive Vice President Marketing, who has been working with RATIONAL...
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ManagementMay 18, 2020Zoom in to the New Work dangers for caterersWhat do you mean return to work? I’ve been at work for the last 6 weeks, I was just using my home office. As I sat on one of my clients Zoom calls this week I could understand the perspective, although...
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Chef's LifeApril 23, 2020Hemp – A crash courseOstrasized or valued? The consensus is in: the potential of this plant has not yet been fully tapped. One of the oldest crops in the world, hemp has always been cultivated and used by civilizations in many different ways.
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Kitchen 4.xApril 16, 2020All the flavor that’s fit to printPrinting already revolutionized the world once. It could be time for a repeat performance. Back in the 15th century, it was the printing press. The 2020 printing revolution involves a very different product: plant-based meat. Culinary sensation or cheap gimmick? We...
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ManagementMarch 26, 2020Gastro power through womenWhat?! International Women's Day was weeks ago and now we're already back to talking about this? Sorry, but this is something we have to discuss. After all, this puts us right smack in the middle of one of THE industry's most...
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ManagementMarch 4, 2020Mayday fish in distressOverfished oceans, cheap fish pumped full of hormones...we can’t keep this up for much longer! The future lies in sustainable aquaculture, whose pioneers have begun showing the world the way forward.
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Chef's LifeMarch 2, 2020One hundred percent passionThe shortage of skilled workers makes today's gastronomy industry hot under the collar. The future looks bleak. However, the orange flame adorning the aprons of the Guerilla Chefs exudes nothing but confidence. With a completely new range of programs and courses,...
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Chef's LifeFebruary 19, 2020How much does one earn in gastronomy – An international overviewWe shouldn't talk about money. Or should we? We take a look at the current state of wages and salaries in gastronomy: How much does a chef earn during their training – and how high a salary can they expect...
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ManagementFebruary 17, 2020More kitchen for more chefs – coworking in gastronomyThe austrian start-up Herd operates a large kitchen with the look and feel of a modern coworking space, where complete beginners, career changers and professional chefs share pots and pans as well as their passion for cooking.
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InnovatorsFebruary 12, 2020Professional kitchens are getting smarter.Digitization, networking, artificial intelligence - everyone’s talking about them, and now they’re becoming a top priority in professional kitchens around the world. And that includes Rational, the Landsberg-based manufacturers specializing in thermic food preparation appliances and equipment.
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Chef's LifeFebruary 6, 2020CBD: Game-changing hit or passing fad?CBD, THC, hemp, cannabis – trendsetters are touting them as the next big high for food service operators, but legislators remain concerned.
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Chef's LifeJanuary 30, 2020Check out what’s fermenting!Fermentation is the next big thing. Trendy kitchen professionals are catapulting techniques from the olden days directly into the future.
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InnovatorsJanuary 27, 2020Hilton Prague – Latest food production trends for large scale eventsFranco Luise doesn’t shy away from big jobs. As the kitchen director of the Prague Hilton, he manages a team of almost 70 chefs - and has made as many as 1500 guests happy at once with his culinary creations. His...
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Chef's LifeJanuary 22, 2020Five-star cuisine and starry nightsAfter six weeks crossing Kavango Zambezi National Park, living among oryx, antelope, and kudu herds, René Linke’s passport has just two blank pages remaining. The others are covered in stamps, testaments to his travels through Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
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ManagementJanuary 20, 2020Hey good lookin’!The big cities of the world are full of restaurants with concepts planned down to the tiniest detail, but many places don’t extend that same passion for design to staff clothing. That’s beginning to change.
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ManagementDecember 20, 2019Hot stuff! Insights from the IoT Catering SummitCooking is analog art at its best. There's something to touch, see, smell, taste. Craft and emotions prevail – chilly computer technology has no place in the warm, sizzling empire of chefs. However, the Internet of Things still makes it past...
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Kitchen 4.xDecember 18, 201920 global foodservice trends for 2020It’s been another rollercoaster year for the worldwide foodservice and hospitality sector. What will 2020 hold? We’ve compiled a list of the top trends to keep you in the know.
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ManagementDecember 6, 2019Social media in gastronomy – a blessing or a curse?The discussion around the topic of social media in gastronomy always comes with two completely different perspectives. While one side takes advantage of the opportunities offered by social media and considers the many different ways it can be used to...
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Chef's LifeOctober 31, 2019Work less pay hard!Work hard, play hard is on its way out. What Generation Z expects from the working world - and how companies can win their long-term loyalty.
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ManagementOctober 28, 2019Food delivery and the lazy economyOutlining the current picture of the food delivery market in Asia where several players are jostling for position.
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Kitchen 4.xOctober 16, 2019Stop eating plastic – Time for the post-plastic age!It is virtually impossible to imagine our food production without plastic. These days, not only is it used for packaging, it's even part of our food. It's high time for new alternatives.
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ManagementOctober 8, 2019Better than BEEF?Meat 2.0: plant-based meat alternatives like beyond meat are all the rage these days. How this trend came about, what meatless meat is really made of, and how the battle of the fake meats is signaling a food industry revolution to...
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ManagementSeptember 26, 2019Generation ABC – Play food from the futureSo everyone knows you shouldn't play with your food, right? Wrong! You can actually learn a lot by doing exactly this. The WIN WIN Sustainability Award Gothenburg has therefore designed a range of toys created for the 3D printer, which replicates...
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Chef's LifeSeptember 19, 2019The world is an adventure playgroundMost of the time, René Linke is the creative head and managing director of his own catering company. Weddings, anniversaries, company events with lobster, champagne and beef fillet are among his specialities. But six weeks a year Linke leads a second...
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ManagementAugust 21, 2019Not trash but treasureRoot to stem is the new nose to tail! Why vegetable leftovers are all the rage, and how the culinary elite are using them to usher in a new era.
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ManagementAugust 19, 2019No kitchen? No problem!Norbert Friedl (43) runs Telia Kitchen Rentals GmbH in Lengau, Austria. His mission: to bring commercial kitchens wherever they’re needed. Fast. Customized. Perfect. And always temporary. We asked him about the peaks and challenges of his work - From planning and...
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Chef's LifeAugust 12, 2019The chef and his armyThey're young, they're ambitious, they know the sky's the limit. The Guerilla Chefs are a group united by a common attitude and a common goal: To bring creativity, fun, and appreciation back to everyday kitchen life. We asked Simon Kolar,...
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ManagementJuly 15, 2019The taste of the futureThe Compass Group is the world’s largest catering corporation, with around 14,500 employees in Germany alone. Besides having its own food-service concept emphasizing company cafeterias, Compass also implements customer ideas both within and outside the gastronomy sector.
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ManagementJuly 1, 2019Uber Eats – how the ride-sharing service is racing to the front of the delivery marketI’ll call an Uber! - A few years ago, most of us only heard that phrase on American TV shows, but now it’s become totally normal all over the world. But now everyone’s favorite peer-to-peer taxi service has started giving “rides”...
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ManagementJune 19, 2019Inside a Ghost kitchen: “Trends change very quickly”Food delivery means eating what you want, wherever and whenever you want it. It’s a huge market already, and these days, it’s practically exploding. One fairly cool new resulting development: ghost kitchens. They churn out food without having a connected restaurant...
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Chef's LifeJune 17, 2019A quick guide to saving the worldAs any third-grader can probably tell you, the Earth is unique, and it’s a perfect place to live. So why wouldn’t we protect something so valuable? It seems like not even adults can answer that one.
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ManagementMay 13, 2019Keeping the plates spinningCaterers must deliver a healthier, more diverse food offer than ever to a backdrop of rising costs and a shrinking labour pool. KTCHNrebel finds out why reducing waste, controlling costs and focusing on staff retention are key to success.
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ManagementMay 6, 2019Future 50 Foods: The ingredients in our nutritional futureIt’s a challenge unlike any we’ve ever faced: Our use of natural resources and our intense focus on just a few foods are putting our health and our planet at risk. The Future 50 Foods report compiled by Knorr and the...
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ManagementApril 29, 2019Four-day weeks: This restaurant chain’s serving work-life balanceThe fate of the restaurant world seems to be hanging on the thread of personnel shortages. The entire industry is breathless from fighting over good recruits - but the solution may lie in rethinking their scheduling models. One star in the...
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ManagementApril 25, 2019Anyone for crickets?Plant-based, lab-grown and insect proteins may currently be at the fringe of the protein market, but as big money continues to roll in, all signs point to them staying the course.
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Chef's LifeApril 23, 2019HYPER, HYPER!Plant superstars and meat with storytelling: How food trends develop and what they say about us.
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ManagementApril 15, 2019WHAT’S HOT in Concepts & Food: The 2019 TREND GUIDEIt almost seems like food these days is more about ethics than pleasure: Hip foodie lunchrooms are all about the sustainable, the nutritious, and the vegan. Getting rid of plastic straws is practically common courtesy anymore, and many places use it...
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ManagementApril 11, 2019Staff canteens need to be the heart of the companyMore and more company staff canteens nowadays are more than just a place where you can put food into your body between meetings. They’re becoming places to take time out of your day, places of conscious enjoyment, of networking and communication....
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Chef's LifeMarch 28, 2019Working in MalmöStronger together should probably be printed on the Swedish flag. Malmöers are calm and relaxed, and they approach every problem as a team. Read on for more career tips for Sweden’s southernmost city.
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Chef's LifeMarch 11, 2019On the hunt for the tastiest plateCompetitions for young chefs are popping up everywhere these days, to the point that it’s almost hard to keep track of them all—let alone figure out which ones are really important. Hamburg? Milan? Las Vegas, maybe? How about a national competition,...
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InnovatorsMarch 4, 2019The AlchemistThomas A. Vilgis is a professor of theoretical physics at the Max Planck Institute of Polymer Research. He is also an avid hobby cook and an award-winning cookbook author specializing in molecular gastronomy. He advises top chefs on creating new dishes.
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Chef's LifeMarch 4, 2019Algorithmically delicious-How food pairing takes flavor to the next levelChocolate with onions? Strawberries on burgers? Bananas with wheat beer? Food pairing uses databases and molecular chemistry to create combinations that don’t seem like they’d go together, but turn out to be spectacular new taste sensations.
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ManagementFebruary 26, 2019Internorga’s food trends study: Putting restaurant concepts under the microscopeStreet food? Insect burgers? Over the past few years, restaurant trends have been multiplying as rapidly as yeast cultures during fermentation. (We’ll tell you in a minute why we picked that particular analogy.)
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Chef's LifeFebruary 11, 201925 Best Chefs of Instagram 2019Welcome to the Web’s culinary mecca! Instagram lets everyone from hobby cooks to Michelin-starred chefs give their followers a behind-the-scenes look at their kitchens. By dishing up bite-sized portions of “food porn”, brilliant gastronomic minds can expand their influence far beyond...
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ManagementFebruary 7, 2019Mandating meat-free menus: has WeWork gone a step too far?Coworking giant WeWork has taken meat off the menu for its employees. Should other companies be following suit?
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ManagementJanuary 30, 2019Levelling up Turkish gastronomyTraining and development center Gastronometro was founded three years ago with the goal of supporting and promoting Turkish gastronomy at home and around the world. Director Maximilian Thomae, the man behind the platform, explains what they’ve achieved so far and how...
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ManagementJanuary 1, 2019Ghost kitchen – gastronomic revolutionariesAbandoned parking lots in the shadows of tall bridges, romantic industrial settings, skylines... is this really where the gastronomic revolution is going to happen? Here, among the shipping containers that blend harmoniously into the desolate landscape? Of course! The epicenter of...
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Chef's LifeDecember 30, 2018Working in Mexico CityMexico, land of the Aztecs, has an incredibly diverse landscape, ranging from endless beaches and dense rainforests to massive gorges and spectacular mountains. The cuisine here is full of variety, too: cattle farms in the north, fish and seafood from the...
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Kitchen 4.xDecember 25, 2018Slow food, fastNow serving: the future! Or at least that's what's happening in San Francisco and Berlin, where restaurateurs are using digital technology to kick their health-food places into overdrive.
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ManagementNovember 28, 2018Vision vs. reason? Having a vision is always a risk…Restaurants open, restaurants close. It’s the Circle of Life in the gastronomy world. But how come some places thrive for decades, and others fall apart after a few months? A 2005 Ohio State Univeristy study analyzed the situation in the USA,...
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Chef's LifeNovember 19, 2018Off-Road CookingChef is more than a career—it’s almost like a personal brand. Chefs are food experts, organizational geniuses, artists, and revolutionaries, all rolled into one. When everyone else has gone home for the day, they’re hitting their stride, adrenalin coursing through their...
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Chef's LifeNovember 16, 2018Going whole hogFrom nose to tail: a chef with a sense of responsibility is the best thing that can ever happen to a pig. Plus: this little piggy went to market...
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ManagementNovember 10, 2018Four foodservice trends for 2019Technology, sustainability and convenience are set to be the foodservice buzzwords for 2019, as Elly Earls discovers.
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Chef's LifeNovember 6, 2018Working in SingaporeImpulsive, challenging, many-faceted: it's no wonder people call Singapore a melting pot of trends. Here, any ex-pats willing to work can try their hand at new things, ride the gastronomy wave, and discover extraordinary and innovative ideas.
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Kitchen 4.xOctober 31, 2018Getting connectedThe Internet of Things (IoT) has huge potential to transform the foodservice sector. Elly Earls finds out how.
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ManagementOctober 18, 2018A trend that’ll make you smile: Healthy hedonismThis trend was a long time coming. Haven’t we all spoiled our own fun often enough trying to eat healthy? Nibbling on carrots, counting calories, tallying points, watching our weight. We’ve all done it, whether we’re nine, nineteen or ninety. Women...
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Kitchen 4.xOctober 11, 2018Pixel pasta: will 3D food printers revolutionize the restaurant industry?The room is bathed in soft pink light; the few chairs are lit up in green from underneath. Geometric shapes float past on the walls. It’s not garish, but it’s very futuristic - sort of a combination spaceship-laboratory thing. Diners are...
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Kitchen 4.xOctober 7, 2018Artificial food and dairy substitutes – Comfort food from the science labNew York, the not-too-distant future: gray smog lingers over the streets of an overpopulated city. The world’s natural resources are practically gone; precious water and food are astronomically expensive. While the majority of the impoverished populace struggles every day to find...
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ManagementSeptember 26, 2018Food waste: enough is enough!Every year, somewhere along the road from farms to processing plants, restaurants, and households, 1.3 billion tons of food wind up in the trash rather than in our stomachs. It’s an astonishing and thought-provoking statistic — think of the valuable environmental...
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ManagementSeptember 23, 2018How sustainable is your menu?Consumers are more aware than ever about the impact their food choices have on the planet, but are chefs delivering them the information they require?
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ManagementSeptember 20, 2018Six tips for beating skilled staff shortagesIt’ll all be okay... but how? Contrary to what you might think from the atmosphere in the culinary world, the industry isn’t actually on the brink of an apocalypse. We need to get past the myth that it’s all miserable cooks, waiters,...
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ManagementSeptember 19, 2018Full house, empty kitchens?Miami? Tokyo? London? Or how about Munich? Mike is proud and happy. He’s just been released into the wild, with a degree from a top German culinary school in his pocket, and now the world is waiting to welcome him with...
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Chef's LifeSeptember 11, 2018Working in BizkaiaThe mountains at your back, the Atlantic in front of you, and a food-and-gastronomy freak’s paradise in between. Welcome to living and working in Bizkaia. Read on to discover some of the most exciting new ideas in the region, along with...
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ManagementAugust 16, 2018Aquaponics: symbiotic habitats for food of the futureDiners at Sollo shake their heads in wonder as the sun dips below the horizon on Spain’s southern Mediterranean coastline. It’s only partly because of the view, though—the real spectacle here is on the ceramic plates on this side of the...
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ManagementMay 9, 2018Bugs, not bunny: how insects are revolutionizing gastronomyBangkok: a small restaurant tucked away in a back courtyard. Dark facade, bronze nameplate, metal window shutters. Inside, it’s all high ceilings and vintage-industrial charm, with dark wood bathed in oversized lights and a random assortments of chairs dotting a landscape...
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Kitchen 4.xAutomation for the people
Robotics and automation are changing the hospitality sector at an exponential rate. Keith Tan, CEO and founder of Crown Digital IO, tells us how the robotic barista ELLA is changing the face of F&B one cup of coffee at a time.
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Innovators“If you can’t beat them, eat them.”
Bouillabaisse made from Chinese mitten crab, venison from Nile goose, goulash from nutria: Why not restore the ecological balance by becoming a predator of invasive species?
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Chef's LifeDeep frozen blast chilled
The techniques have been commonplace for some time now. But freezing and blast chilling can do more than extend food shelf lives - they’re also a great way of making kitchens more efficient.
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ManagementThe winners, the losers and the virus
Corona has terrorized us long enough. Time to refocus on a positive future and dare to take a gastronomic glance at 2021.