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ManagementOctober 16, 2019Growth trackKarlheinz Hauser has stood for high-end Catering. But he’s doing almost everything differently with his most recent coup: his fast-food concept Poké You is available to franchisees.
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Kitchen 4.xOctober 10, 2019Squaring the circleJust a few months after opening, a San Francisco burger joint has already achieved cult status. Their secret? Gourmet quality plus restaurant robotics.
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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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ManagementSeptember 12, 2019Snackification: The fluid dining culture of the 21st centuryFor centuries, most of Western society was structured around “three square meals a day”. John and Jane Doe of yesteryear had a relatively predictable day-to-day existence, but our increasingly mobile lifestyles and increasingly diverse family arrangements are making the rigid breakfast-lunch-dinner...
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ManagementSeptember 5, 2019Eggslut: How one simple ingredient proved the key to successA little mashed potato, an egg, chives, and salt. Sounds like the humblest of all leftovers, but one breakfast fan on America’s West Coast has made it The Next Big Thing. Eggslut, Alvin Cailan’s frivolous-in-name-only casual dining concept, has become a...
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ManagementAugust 5, 2019Meals on Wheels – The new generation of food trucksSunday at the flea market. Throngs of early risers are wandering around the lot, munching on greasy chicken courtesy of the local food truck. Served with fries, because of course it is. Sound familiar? But times, they are a’changin’: these new...
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ManagementJuly 28, 2019Plants take center stagePlant-based foods have stepped out of the shadow of the age-old meat-vs-fish question, and are finally enjoying the limelight in menus, cookbooks, and household fridges. New products and creative recipes are taking plant-based food to the next level.
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ManagementJuly 22, 2019Some like it hotBakeries have many of the essential ingredients to serve hot dishes as well as pastries, a move that could boost customer spend in a competitive market. Elly Earls finds out whether the shift from bakery to full-service restaurant can be sustainable...
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ManagementJuly 10, 2019The ultimate guide to restaurant reviewsPositive online reviews are the lifeblood of many restaurant businesses, but what if they’re not real? KTCHNrebel reports on why reviews matter, how to manage yours and what’s being done to crack down on fake ones.
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ManagementJuly 4, 2019Flagship FantasticExperiential flagship restaurants can both boost customer spending and provide a pipeline of innovation for QSR brands, as KTCHNrebel reports.
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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, 2019“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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ManagementJune 11, 2019“Well-Being and Self-Realization” Gen Z in the restaurant worldGeneration Z in the restaurant world – Economist and author Prof. Christian Scholz advises employers on what really matters. KTCHNRebel sat down with Prof. Scholz, to discuss Generation Z not only as future employees but also as customers.
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ManagementJune 6, 2019Urban gardening and vertical farming: cities in bloom, green-thumbed chefsSome people think of gardening as a hobby for little old ladies, and the words “garden party” conjure up mental images of stuffy rich folk playing croquet. But now plant enthusiasts have shaken off their old-fashioned image— thanks to urban gardening...
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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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ManagementMarch 21, 2019Food for Follows – Social media as a payment methodPhotos, shares, ratings, likes... it seems like nobody goes to a restaurant anymore without documenting it online. People sit there letting their food get cold while they snap the perfect pic of their plates. Those pics can benefit both them and...
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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 28, 2019From uni to the hotel: Combatting a skills shortage as a career changerCompanies are getting creative when it comes to combatting the skills shortage. For example the British hotel brand, Premier Inn, which amongst other things simply invites applicants to castings instead of asking them to write complicated CVs and applications.
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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 18, 2019My greatest mistakeEven the greats of the industry don’t always do everything right. Here they tell you about their slip-ups and setbacks, what they learned from them and how they do it better today. This time: Selim Varol.
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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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Chef's LifeJanuary 28, 2019Plant-based burger challengeDemand for plant-based meat is fast on the up. KTCHNrebel finds out how three of the market leading burgers stack up.
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Chef's LifeJanuary 28, 2019Taste-testing alternative-protein burgersMore and more people are trying to go meatless for health, environmental, or ethical reasons, but not all of them are willing to say goodbye to burgers — which is why there’s an entire industry working on alternatives to meat patties,...
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Kitchen 4.xJanuary 21, 2019Say what? Voice assistant for restaurants?Soon, almost half of consumers will prefer using a voice assistant to a website. Elly Earls finds out why restaurants need to be ready.
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ManagementJanuary 1, 2019Dark 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 29, 2018New Survey: Gen Y trends that are driving tomorrow’s dining economyResults from a new survey, which was conducted online in October 2018 by YouGov and sponsored by Planday, reveal three key drivers that Gen Y (Millennials born between 1980 and 2000) indicate will shape the restaurant sector of tomorrow.
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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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ManagementNovember 23, 2018A man and his chickenEven today, harland david sanders is still smiling at his customers: his laughing face is the trademark of kentucky fried chicken. How Sanders got his “colonel” title and made his first million.
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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.xNovember 5, 2018The high-tech playgroundA new workspace has just opened its doors in San Francisco: an experimental playground for fans of high-tech cooking.
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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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Kitchen 4.xOctober 24, 2018Rise of the robotsRobot restaurants are hitting the headlines everywhere from China to the US. Elly Earls finds out whether chefs should be worried.
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Kitchen 4.xOctober 17, 2018Ultra-personalization: the next big thing?A restaurant brand in the UK can tailor your dinner to your DNA profile. Elly Earls finds out whether this is the future of foodservice. Personalization is something we’ve come to expect as standard in the quick service sector, particularly in...
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InnovatorsOctober 9, 2018You’re the wurst!An American classic is getting a makeover in Berlin: Björn Swanson’s THE DAWG is taking hot dogs to new culinary heights.
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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 21, 2018Feed the feed – Instagram for restaurantsInstagram is fast becoming an indispensable part of the marketing mix for restaurateurs. Elly Earls finds out how to get it right. 69% of Millennial diners take a photograph of their food before eating it, with 30% saying they wouldn’t go...
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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.xSquaring the circle
Just a few months after opening, a San Francisco burger joint has already achieved cult status. Their secret? Gourmet quality plus restaurant robotics.
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InnovatorsThe boss in Portugal
Top chef and global player: Two-Michelin-star-holder José Avillez has revolutionized Portuguese cuisine, and his unparalleled restaurant empire now encompasses an unbelievable 18 locations.
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ManagementGeneration ABC – Play food from the future
So 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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InnovatorsGhetto Gastro: Soul food with a side of politics
Nothing’s more American than apple pie - until you draw a chalk outline on the plate and turn it into a political statement. The deconstructed dessert and Black Lives Matter commentary is the product of Ghetto Gastro, a culinary collective that’s...