Horeca
Coffee and literature
Starbucks Magyarország announces its poem writing contest for the fifth time in 2023. The competition’s title is Starbucks Coffee Poets, and the coffeehouse chain will celebrate it with a limited...
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MCI’s new presidency
On 20 February 2023 the Hungarian Confectioners Guild (MCI) held its general meeting in Hunguest Hotel Bál Resort, where member also elected the new presidency. In order to facilitate decision-making...
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Hotel management students
The BGE KVIK team has participated in the hotel management competition called European Mise en Place Cup Service – it was organised by the Center4Hospitality for the fifteenth time –...
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New contest: Budapest 150 Cake
On behalf of the Municipality of Budapest, Budapest Brand Nonprofit Zrt. and the Hungarian Confectioners Guild (MCI) announce a special cake competition, celebrating the 150th anniversary of unifying Pest, Buda...
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Professional and community life
In February the Hungarian Confectioners Guild (MCI) held its general meeting in Balatonalmádi, where president Balázs Erdélyi presented his report on 2022. Last year wasn’t easy for MCI, but it...
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January sunshine in our winter of discontent…
Our magazine asked László Kovács, president of the Guild of Hungarian Restaurateurs (MVI) about the opportunities and hardships 2023 can bring. He told that the wave of restaurant retreated by...
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Soft drinks and equal opportunities – Picture of the day
The product is Japanese, and the raised Braille symbols on the box cover are of course intended for the blind and visually impaired....
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Beer breakfast from a Budapest guerrilla brewery
The most creative brewers of the small-brewery beer market surprise the public with more and more unusual combinations, since it is increasingly difficult to stand out from the crowd with...
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Irregular mouth-opening cake – Video of the day
A simple, spectacular, original cake that does not require serious dexterity, with many, many calories – timeless, because the idea is new, but we would also believe that it has...
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New shades of black
Márton Vajda, premium spirits and coffee manager of Coca-Cola HBC Magyarország, told our magazine that Hungarian coffee consumption was more than 19,000 tonnes in 2022. “Coffee bean prices elevated by...
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You can apply again for the HoReCa Heroes competition!
The HoReCa Heroes competition, founded in 2021 by the HoReCa and Event Section of the Hungarian Marketing Association (MMSZ) and Trademagazin, is once again waiting for those who want to...
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MMSZ HoReCa and Event Division – marketing webshop
The HoReCa and Event section of the Hungarian Marketing Association (MMSZ) held a self-marketing communication workshop at the METRO Gastro Academy on March 29. At the event, Zsuzsanna Hermann, managing...
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Foodpanda’s summary of last year
At the end of last year foodpanda summarised the year’s food ordering habits in Hungary. It was revealed that the number of bank card payments grew. Pizza and hamburger were...
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Italian dessert course
On the 7th Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, in Hungary the Italian Trade Agency (ICE) gave centre stage to confectionery. In cooperation with the guild of confectioners, they...
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Lángos at Balaton will be terribly expensive
The guesthouse in Badacsony is considered especially cheap in Balaton: based on a map last year, only two out of 30 places had the plain flaming cheaper than HUF 800,...
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Bird, food – Picture of the day
The plates shown in today’s pictures are the works of New York food stylist Anna Keville Joyce. ...
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“I believe in miracles”
László Kovács, president of the Guild of Hungarian Restaurateurs (MVI) evaluated the past year for our magazine “Hospitality still feels the impact of the pandemic-induced crisis, both financially and mentally,...
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KSH: the gross average earnings are the lowest in the hospitality sector
In January 2023, the gross average salary of those employed full-time was HUF 528,000, and the net average salary calculated with allowances in mind was HUF 363,900. The gross average...
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The miller and the well-dressed girls – Picture of the day
Although we are more than half a decade after the world economic crisis, poverty is still high in some areas of the USA: the most impoverished sew clothes for their...
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Smart farming – Video of the day
Agricultural machines controlled by artificial intelligence....
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Information technology in hospitality
“So far the economic recession hasn’t affected the HoReCa information technology (IT) sector. Partly this has to do with the reporting obligation via the National Tourism Data Supply Centre (NTAK)...
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Tomato, vodka, pasta – Picture of the day
Pouring vodka into the tomato sauce? Uzhe nie modna – the Russian would say (ie: no longer fashionable), although it seems, but! For example, it is increasingly coming back into...
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ProWein 2023
The sector’s leading trade fair met expectations with success. The ProWein trade fair was a resounding success in 2023 as well, with an outstanding evaluation from all participant groups and...
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The wallets of foreigners can no longer withstand the increase in Hungarian food prices
According to Levente Koppány, the chef of Hungary’s first Michelin-starred restaurant, Costes, they can save somewhat on the energy bill, but not on the raw materials, and they don’t want...
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Dávid Rasztovits: Tourism will rediscover itself in 2023
Tourism will discover itself in 2023, we can already reach the pre-pandemic level in the number of jobs in the sector, which is significant because every fourth new job is...
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They handed over the tourist center in Barcs
The tourist center was handed over in Barcs on Friday, which was built at a cost of around HUF 400 million. Katalin Novák emphasized at the event: the investment is...
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Where are dried tomatoes grown – Video of the day
We didn’t even think about it until we saw this video: sun-dried tomatoes can obviously only be an artisanal product. But it’s quite a big business…...
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The lunchbox dad – Picture of the day
A man from California has been making spectacular snack boxes for over 10 years; at first he intended them only for his school-going children, but soon he became a “hero”...
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Voluntary NTAK data provision of restaurants and attractions has started
On March 1, 2023, voluntary data submission to the National Tourist Information Center (NTAK) opened for tens of thousands of hospitality businesses and tourist attraction operators. For the first time,...
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