Paralympic Afternoon Tea

It’s certainly a different twist on afternoon tea from the previous ones we have featured. ‘Afternoon Tea of Champions’ – served on a winners’ podium at the Design Museum Café.

For other afternoon teas and relevant Food Shorts see:

Added Value Catering

Men's Afternoon Tea

Claridge's Named Best Venue for Afternoon Tea

Catering Trends  - Miniaturisation

Museum Visitor Catering - Community Tea Party

Builders' Afternoon Tea 

Tea Consumption on the Decrease & Increase 

Bompas & Parr's Roof Garden

Tea for the Boys

Art Deco Afternoon Tea in Yorkshire

Improve Your Visitor Experience with Afternoon Tea 

Montfort Catering Consultants – For food trends, catering innovation & advice 

Food & Sport

It’s an Olympic sport but could you play ping-pong and eat pizza? Ping is a new underground bar, serving pizzas and drinks but with the added bonus that you can also play ping-pong. Of course, you don’t have to play and eat!

The overall décor is very New York and they hold tournaments with cash prizes.

While it has all the familiar formats associated with successful bars it is also doing something a little different too.

For more details see: Weloveping.com

If you need catering advice to develop your visitor catering, café, restaurant or bar, please get in touch.

Montfort Catering Consultants 

Catering Trends - Miniaturisation

Catering Trends  - Miniaturisation

Miniaturisation of both savoury and sweet menu items has been around for a while now and seems to be becoming ever more popular.  For customers requiring just a light bite or a small sweet treat it is a great way of increasing sales. As well as the additional sales in realises, customer quite often will pay a premium price for miniature items in relation to the equivalent same item in a larger size – improving margins as well as additional sales. Worth considering if you are looking to optimise the potential from your museum, gallery, theatre, employee or university catering?

Below mini cake bites from Costa.

For other recent trends see also:

Food Trends 2012

Fast Casual Dining & Changing Eating Habits 

Street Food  - Catering for Students, Office Workers and Food Tourists

Montfort Catering Consultants 

Innovative Café Marketing

Simple yet effective marketing to attract more people to your café.

If you would like help developing your visitor catering café or restaurant, please drop us a line below.

Montfort Catering Consultants 

See also:

Coffee Cup Sleeve Live Advertising 

Innovative Cafe Marketing

Creating Demand for Your Cafe or Restaurant

Want to Get Creative? Then Visit a Coffee Shop

Knife + Fork = Chopsticks

As many will know, a fork and spoon combination is a ‘spork’. However, now you can have a knife and fork that combines into chopsticks. If you are running a café, restaurant, workplace catering or visitor catering that has a menu that lends itself to the use of both chopsticks and knives and forks, this could be of interest.

Available from  click here

Montfort Catering Consultants – Innovative Independent Catering Consultants 

The Calf – Westfield

The Calf – Westfield

The Calf, a pop-up bar in Westfield, is an off-spring of The Cow pub just around the corner. Styled with a ‘ski chalet’ feel, The Calf is initially around for six months.

While their chalkboard door doesn’t overly promote their food and drink directly, it is certainly eye catching and supports the fun atmosphere that The Calf has created just moments from the Olympic Park.

Catering and bar marketing and point of sale material doesn’t need to be expensive. It is often the simpler and more innovative ideas that are the ones that work.

Montfort Consultants – Catering Consultants 

Rail Station Catering

Following on from Wednesday's post, the new catering that we featured being built at Waterloo railway station was as below, Benugo's.

Montfort Catering Consultants

Railway Retail Catering

If you are a regular traveller through Waterloo station, London you may have seen the changes to the concourse catering. In fact its now more 'mezzanine' catering.

This is how it looked being built. Can you guess which popular brand it is? If not, we will reveal it on Friday.

Montfort Catering Consultants - Independent Catering Advice

Museum Visitor Catering – Community Tea Party

The Geffrye – Museum of the Home organised a collaboration with families from Morningside Children’s Centre, sculptors, artists and museum staff to decorate this giant tea pot and tea bowls in the Geffrye’s garden. Encouraging local families to work together, have fun and learn new skills, the last session also included a celebratory tea party!

Read our other articles:

Added Value Catering 

Men's Afternoon Tea

Builders Afternoon Tea

Tea Consumption on the Decrease & Increase

Coffee Cup Sleeve ‘Live’ Advertising

Improve Your Visitor Experience with Afternoon Tea

Art Deco Afternoon Tea in Yorkshire 

We are delighted to be working with the Geffrye, developing the catering strategy, business case and providing related catering design advice for their new visitor and conference catering facilities.

The Geffrye – Museum of the Home

Montfort Consultants – Catering Consultants to Arts Organisations 

Olympic Hand Made Food

Another Live-site pop up, Hand Made Food of Blackheath are renowned for their fantastic ‘hand made food’. It’s great to see a quality operator supporting their local Olympic Live-site.

Hand Made Food 

Montfort Consultants  - Catering Consultancy 

Olympic catering street food

Continuing our Olympic theme, we spotted the below at the Old Royal Naval College Live-site, just a short stroll from the Equestrian events taking place in Greenwich Park.

Quality street food continues to be one of the biggest food trends in recent times and its great to see it in such high profile locations.

See also: Street Food - Catering for students, office workers, food tourists.....

Montfort Consultants – For catering advice to museums, historic venues, employee catering, universities, sporting events….

Olympic catering pop up

The areas surrounding the Olympic venues seem to have gone pop up mad. We will be showcasing some of the ones we have discovered during the Games. Below - MVMNT - just outside Greenwich Station can not be missed for its vibrant colours and wooden structure. We particularly like the seating area.

See also: Street Food - Catering - Catering For Students Office Workers, Food Tourists...

Montfort Catering Consultants - Catering Advice from Conception to Design

Gambling your catering profits?

Lucky Days in York is a café selling the usual sandwiches, cakes etc. The difference here is that when you make your purchases you roll the dice and if you roll a six, all items purchased are £1 each. The interesting angle to this is that the produce is all quality.

We’ll be checking back soon to see how they’re doing and if the gamble has paid off!

Montfort Consultants – Catering Consultancy

Alternative Menu Ideas

Alternative menu ideas, as included in Selfridges latest window display.

Perhaps a little radical but certainly entertaining?

Montfort Catering Consultants