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The taste of coffee

Most bar, restaurant and café owners know syrups used for mixing drinks, but are not really familiar with syrups used for mixing coffee-based drinks. According to Sándor Suha, the managing...

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Loyal employees

When going to a McDonald’s one always feels that all employees are student-aged, who are replaced by younger staff in a year or two. However, through its loyalty programme the...

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Health-friendly restaurants

The objective of the Health-friendly programme is to promote healthy eating. According to project manager Éva Péterfia, about 1,000 restaurants are interested in joining the initiative. Member restaurants forbid smoking,...

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Nespresso Corner

Capsule coffee takes off slowly in the Hungarian bar/restaurant/café sector. At the end of last year, Nespresso appeared in Media Markt stores with special tasting-stands: Nespresso Corner offers a new...

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Both prestige and sales improved

In 2008, pálinka production was up 20 percent compared to the previous year. According to Gyula Kasza from the Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development, pálinka has become trendy and...

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Preparations

Vilmos Kreil, the chairman of the Hungarian Bocuse d’Or Academy: – In the light of the work done so far I can say that all the conditions of a successful...

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The chairman of the international jury

According to Charles Tjessem, the competition is as much about tactics as about how a meal is prepared. He thinks that the expansion of the means of communication between chefs...

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French Easy

In the middle of January our magazine, with the help of Hungexpo, managed to interview master confectioner Gabriel Paillasson, member of the jury panel at the Junior Confectioners’ World Championship...

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The world according to Bocuse

With the help of Hungexpo Zrt., last December the world’s most famous chef Paul Bocuse, who won more than 120 Michelin stars during his career, gave an exclusive interview to...

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Useful information about dietary fibres

Targeted research on dietary fibres started about 30 years ago, and by today it has become fashionable to overemphasise the importance of fibres. Professional literature makes it clear that ideal...

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Hot food vouchers: no changes

According to the Ministry of Finance; APEH withdrew the limitation of the usage of hot food vouchers – reports MR1 Kossuth Rádio. Thus, the hot food vouchers, received from the...

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Tourism had a bad year last year

In 2009, the number of guests and guest nights at the commercial accommodations, also decreased by 8 percent, compared to the values of the previous year. The resorts sales at...

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Russian investor to buy Aranybika

The Aranybika hotel in Debrecen may be bought by a Russian investor from Cheljabinsk, situates beyond the Urals, if the investor will pay the first installment of 800 million HUF,...

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The EUFE Roadshow visited Kerecsend

The kitchen of the local kindergarten was the recent stop of the Roadshow, that aims the renewal of the quality of public catering. The kitchen staff prepared the special "Buday...

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Ten billion support for seven Hungarian baths

With nearly 900 square meters of water surface, a new family adventure bath is under construction, in the Castle Bath of Gyula. The total cost of the project is 2.5...

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Bajnai expects growth in the tourism sector

According to the analysts; a 3-4 percent growth can be expected in the tourism sector – said Gordon Bajnai on the 18th Tourism Gala Awards and Year Starting Event. The...

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Spas are in Trouble

According to the Secretary-General of the Hungarian Spas; the Ministry of Health violated the law, beacause since December of 2008, do not advertise the new prices of the spa services,...

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Last year, fewer people visited Austria

In 2009, the number of guest nights slightly decreased by 1.9 percent in Austria. The Hungarian travelers spent 8.8 percent fewer guest nights in the country. According to the preliminary...

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Increasingly popular rural tourism

Rural tourism, may expand from the second half of the year. It is a popular form of recreation mainly among domestic visitors. Rural hospitality can be a break out point...

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Two million people used holiday vouchers

According to the Hungarian National Holiday Foundation; nearly 50 billion HUF worth holiday vouchers were marketet in Hungary last year. 2 million employees and close relatives used to holiday vouchers....

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The Hotel Room of the Year is an AMA creation

The professional jury gave the Hotel Room of the Year award, in the category of four star hotels to AMA Creation for the rooms of EXPO Hotel. The publisher of...

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The world’s best restaurant will held a two-year break, due to innovations

Ferrán Adriá, owner and chef of Spanish El Bulli restaurant will close the world’s best restaurant for two years, because he is looking for Gastronomy renascence. The three-Michelin-star El Bulli’s...

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Re-alluring the East Germans

The Plain and Lake Tisza region for many years are consistently trying to allure back the tourists from the East German provinces. There is also a great interest for Lake...

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Recognition for the Costes restaurant

The Costes restaurant in Budapest won the award of dinningguide.hu gastro site which rewarded the best Hungarian restaurant of the last year. According to one of the owners, Gerendai Károly;...

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Event Organizers: Alliance on the day of the profession

Event organizers would probate their interests jointly. A traditional solution was chosen: they set up their own conference. Not only the members of MaReSz are expected on the professional day,...

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Until the end of January 3.2 billion HUF for holiday checks

The Hungarian National Holiday Foundation stated; that they will provide 3.2 billion HUF holiday vouchers from their own resources to low-income pensioners, to the disabled, to workers with at least...

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Motel One expands in Europe

The German Motel One chain offering cheap accommodation, wants to expand abroad. Dieter Müller, CEO of Motel One said to FTD, that they would like to be present in all...

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The crisis continues in the domestic tourism

Between January-November 2009, in the commercial accommodations, the number of guests and the guest nights both decreased by 8 percent, compared to the values of the same period of last...

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Two-third of the municipalities will abrogate cafeteria

This year, in 60-70 percent of the settlements, cafeteria was terminated, because of the taxation of the the fringe benefits. Seventy-nine percent of the state institutions and 72 percent of...

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Restaurants of Budapest: Waiting for the stars

Budapest was added to the gastronomic map: During the spring at least one restaurant of Budapest can get Michelin star. The members of the world-famous publication visited several restaurants in...

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