Health & Care Catering: Why you should take care of your guests
Admittedly, everything seems quite straightforward. As the owner of a café located in a hospital or nursing home, the clients come automatically – as they have few alternatives. But it’s not quite that simple – and also a little short-sighted.
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Robot serving at “Comical Café”
Tokyo. At the fully automatic Henna Café (“Comical Café”), a robot serves both freshly brewed filter coffee and delicious coffee specialties from the Melitta® Cafina® XT4. The travel group H.I.S. has opened the first café of this kind in the department store Shibuya Modi. If the test project proves successful, further Henna Cafés will follow in Japan. H.I.S. already operates two Henna Hotels in which mainly robots are employed.
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Café crème - The rediscovery of an old love
Café crème leads a largely sheltered life. Many restaurant owners and bakers do not even know its proper name. Some mistakenly refer to it as schümli or schümli coffee – in reference to the Swiss word for the crema on the surface of this bean-to-cup coffee.
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Tradition, revolution and evolution high above the Isar valley
Pullach-Großhesselohe. In the course of its 200-year-old history, “WaWi” (as this rural beer garden is affectionately known) has written many stories. For example, the so-called “beer garden revolution” of 1995. And a new and evolutionary chapter has just been added. Waldwirtschaft Grosshesselohe can now rely on the new Melitta® Cafina® XT7 of long-standing coffee partner Melitta Professional Coffee Solutions to deliver tasty and professionally prepared coffee specialties. And that in duplicate.
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Coffee drinks as USP – about specialty coffees and coffee specialties
Every catering establishment offers coffee beverages – mostly as specialty coffees or coffee specialties. Yet the only special thing about them is often their exceptionally high and completely unjustified price considering their quality.
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First woman on the throne
Erna Tosberg on the World Barista Championship 2018
Congratulations Agnieszka Rojewska! The multiple Polish champion is the first woman to win the World Barista Championship.
In late June 2018, the coffee world converged on Amsterdam in the Netherlands as The World of Coffee trade show played host to the World Barista Championship. 56 national champions were invited to demonstrate their skills and expertise in preparing and serving various coffee drinks. The new World Champion from Poland, Agnieszka Rojewska, made history by becoming the first woman to win the title in 19 years of WBC events.
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Urban gardening with coffee grounds
In its company brochure, “idealo” portrays its role as “bringing clarity to the thick fog of online shopping”. The online comparison site employs 700 staff at its headquarters in Berlin’s trendy Kreuzberg district. And the main meeting point is the company’s cafeteria with a large communal kitchen for staff to cook their own meals, as well as two self-service Melitta® Cafina® CT8 coffee machines that often serve up to 800 coffee specialties per day. Lactose-free milk and soya milk are in high demand and the firm’s coffee consumption also has valuable ecological benefits. Staff use the coffee grounds as a fertilizer for the courtyard garden. Herbs, lettuce and vegetables are grown in mobile containers for use in the communal kitchen.
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From asparagus spring to blueberry summer
During the peak season of May and June, over 10,000 visitors make their way to the “asparagus and adventure farm” Klaistow near Potsdam, Germany, to buy or enjoy freshly picked Beelitz asparagus every day. To help cope with this seasonal demand, the 80-strong permanent team of the Buschmann and Winkelmann families is supplemented by some 800 asparagus pickers and 250 helping hands. Meanwhile, the coffee machines of Melitta Professional are already advertising the next highlights.
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Good coffee pays for itself twice over!
... or “Why you simply can’t afford to serve bad coffee.”
Coffee is one of the main revenue drivers of the Horeca sector and bakeries. Despite this, however, it’s rarely given the attention it deserves. This is strange when you consider the contribution margins and revenues this popular pick-me-up provides.
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Science helps win title
Erna Tosberg on the World Barista Championship 2017 and the new champion Dale Harris, who surprised everyone by bringing the title back to Europe again after 8 years.
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