Horeca
She blossomed in silence
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
A few months ago, a young female cook caught the press’ attention, Zsuzsa Sára who works at Arany Kaviár in Budapest. She won a TV contest ahead of 17 male...
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The market is sparkling
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Recession did not leave the world’s champagne market intact, but the decrease in domestic consumption was below the average at 10 percent. In terms of volume tank-fermented champagnes, especially the...
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Talented students
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
WorldSkills, the bi-annual youth contest for newly graduated students of 40 professions was regularly organised in the past 80 years. This year Calgary was the host and Hungary sent representatives...
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Success on multiple levels
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
The Budapest International Wine and Champagne Festival closed its gates on September 13. According to Judit Révész, the key account manager of Törley Pezsgőpincészet Kft. the number of wine-savvy participants...
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Franchise news
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
European concept Belfrit is expanding rapidly in Hungary. The Belgian fast food chain opened its 16th unit in the Budaörs Auchan at the end of September. Belfrit’s main profile is...
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Sauces from behind the bars
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Every enterprise has to face difficulties sometimes – but the producer of JailHouseFire hot sauces is really special: their products are made in a Florida penitentiary, in 3 varieties. Distributors...
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Shoot…the chef!
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Sydney Morning Herald organised its annual (and the world’s only) gastronomic art photography competition, Shoot the Chef. Winners were selected at the end of September and their photos can be...
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Hungarians finish 4th
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
As part of the Hoventa trade exhibition, the Central European preliminaries of the Global Chefs Challenge were organised for the second time. Tamás Tóth and Zsolt Berki put on a...
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Facing the challenge in New York – part 3
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
From July Roland Oláh, formerly the chef of Café Erté, tries his luck in the USA. He regularly reports to our magazine: “Starting at the Boulud – this is all...
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Development is knocking at the door?
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Despite economic difficulties Ákos Niklai, the president of Magyar Turizmus Zrt. thinks that the perspectives of HoReCa are hopeful, because the sector is about to develop if it can improve...
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Gastronomic tour for foreign journalists
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Magyar Turizmus Zrt. invited 16 journalists to make themselves acquainted with Hungary’s culinary values on 20-24 September. The flavour-trip started at Óbuda and continued in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, Tokaj and Budapest....
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Placards in the socialist era
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
From 10 October 2009 until the end of February 2010, the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism exhibits Hungarian retail, tourism and HoReCa-themed placards from the period 1945-1989....
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Artisjus royalties
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
On 3 September 2009, the Society Artisjus Hungarian Bureau for the Protection of Authors’ Rights held an informative meeting for HoReCa organisations and the representatives of the Hotel Association of...
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The real guest book
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Nearly all restaurants and bars with their own website have a virtual guest book, but few people write into them – customers believe they are censored. They are probably right...
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Trends and facts in HoReCa
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
Horeca-Forward was the title of the conference organised by Karrier & Stílus Tanácsadó Kft. in September. Presentations at the conference offered useful knowledge to everyone working in the HoReCa sector....
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Real time feedback
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
A simple recipe to satisfy customers: give them what they want. We can get to know what it is if we ask their opinion. An Atlanta-based company, VOC Systems Inc....
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Star chefs in Budapest
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
The Hungarian Bocuse d’Or Academy and Hungexpo invited 4 famous French chefs for 5-6 October, owners of prestigious restaurants in Lyon. They met members of the Academy and went to...
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Does it feel good to enter this place?
Date: 2009-10-27 08:00:00
What influences owners when selecting the design of their restaurants and bars – this was our topic with Dr. László Gerlán, the managing director of Formative Zrt., a company that...
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Every tenth restaurant and pub is in the edge of bankruptcy
Date: 2009-10-27 00:01:45
The hosts living up their last emergency reserves. According to a survey, every tenth restaurant and pub is in the edge of bankruptcy. Beside the traffic decrease, to get bank...
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Eighty percent of the toursists at Balaton are Hungarian
Date: 2009-10-22 00:04:00
In the first eight months of the year, nearly one million guests spent 3.4 million nights in the Lake Balaton, which is a 6.5 percent drop in traffic and a...
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Tourism avoided job losses
Date: 2009-10-14 00:04:02
Thanks to the increase of the labor demand during the summer season, tourism industry avoided the large number of redundancies – states the assessment of turizmusjob.hu. Tourism is a special...
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Business Travel Show: crisis and business tourism
Date: 2009-10-13 00:02:58
The number of domestic business guest nights in domestic hotels decreased by 25-35 percent, because of the economic crisis – said Kopócsy Andrea, President of the Hungarian Hotel Association. The...
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Every fifth Hungarian travelled in the first half of the year
Date: 2009-10-12 00:03:59
According to the Central Statistical Office; 21 percent of the Hungarian population was involved in domestic tourism, in the first half of the year, travelling at least once a multi-day...
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KSH: there is no sign of turning point in tourism
Date: 2009-10-08 00:04:12
According to the Central Statistical Office (KSH); in the first 8 months of the year, the number of foreign guests decreased by 12, the number of domestic visitors decreased by...
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Pick delivers into Michelin-starred Japanese restaurants
Date: 2009-10-06 00:02:55
The seventh time held Hungarian Weeks series of event, is very succesful in Japan. One of the main sponsor of the event is Pick Szeged Zrt. now for the second...
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French celebrity chefs in the opening HOVENTA
Date: 2009-10-05 00:03:12
For the invitation of the Hungarian Academy of Bocuse d'Or and Hungexpo, Christophe Marguin, the President of the Toques Blanches Lyonnaise chefs' association (founded in 1936) will visit Budapest on...
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Exclusive hospitality event on 21st and 22nd October in Paris
Date: 2009-10-05 00:01:30
The Tastemakers named event organized by Sealed Air Cryovac at the packaging headquarters of Packforum ® will provide an insight into the birth of quality food. The Sealed Air Cryovac,...
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Business tourism decreased
Date: 2009-10-01 00:02:55
A significant part of the companies saves on different conferences, congresses and events, because of the crisis. The hotel and event centers experienced a 15-40 percent drop in corporate events...
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The first Hungarian Product Grand Prix hotel
Date: 2009-09-30 00:00:30
The NaturMed Hotel Carbona of Hévíz used to win the “Best Spa Hotel” title every year since 2004, won this year’s Hungarian Product Grand Prix. The NaturMed Hotel Carbona of...
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Special wine-tasting event
Date: 2009-09-27 08:00:00
Wine shop In Vino Veritas invited its partners to a special wine-tasting event. The company’s main profile is selling high quality Hungarian wines, but this time they invited the representatives...
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