Competitors turn into partners, bonding over food design

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Last year, DESITA held its 3rd edition of the International Design Award dedicated to designers, architects and creatives to revolutionize the whole experience around pizza. Award winners Vincenzo, Nick and Eir, turn into friends and partners and this is their story about, that makes us very happy and proud, increasing also the expectations for the new…

The Kitchens of the Future Will Be Full of (App)liances

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We are not referring to some bot that lets you order inside the infamous Facebook Messenger, nor to those recent screens placed at Mc Donald’s all over for table service. The matter may be far more complex – with a lesser play flow perhaps – but of extreme utility. Yes, because technological innovation could serve…

Rosanna Marziale, a Starry Chef and Entrepreneur Who Looks To the Future

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“Creative Italian dishes served between columns and marble floors, in a fine restaurant with a piano” is the kind of impression you’ll get when you look up the internet for ‘Le Colonne Marziale’ in Caserta. And it is really worth going into, not only to satisfy the taste buds, but above all to breathe the…

Between Rentals and Bureaucracy: The Catering Business is Stuff for Real Heroes

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We all know it as the “American Dream” – to fly halfway around the world in search of fortune, wealth and future – more often than not (re) starting from zero. It is undeniable that many have realized it, especially restaurant owners and entrepreneurs who, by capitalizing on family traditions and their tricolor taste, have…

Innovating in Catering: It Is Still Possible?

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‘Research’, ‘contamination’ and ‘experimentation’ are a few buzzwords in the world of food and food service; a world that is always changing, is driven by the passion of its protagonists, but, at the same time must also respond to the main challenge of today’s market: to survive and thrive. The positioning within such a crowded…

Iran return

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Interview published in the October issue of the magazine “Il Friuli Business” With the end of the embargo, it opens a new season for economic and Iran, after almost four decades of closure to the world, all eyes turn towards these territories. << It ‘sa different from the Arab market: the Persian culture is very…

Will the Web Kill Retail?

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It is a question that is often asked during conferences and client meetings. “Why should I invest in opening a store or a chain and incur all aligned expenses when I can play safe on an online platform and enjoy the same (if not better!) ROI, with much simpler management?” Reasonable doubt, but an ill-posed…

Projects that remain at the heart: the Arab pastry

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It wasn’t a dark and stormy night, but a sultry afternoon in the July of 2011. We were in Riyadh, and what we had in front of us was a space of about 450 square meters to build a pastry shop. Not just a patisserie whatever, but a “replicable” patisserie. Let us explain better. We…

The Psychology of Choice: Facilitate the Client in Decision Making

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We live in an unprecedented era in terms of choices: information, places, products, services, lifestyles – at no other time in human history has there been such a variety! ‘Choice’ is the purest expression of free will. The freedom to choose allows us to model our lives exactly as we want it (as long as…

DESITA Grows From Strength to Strength

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2016 has been an intense year, full of initiatives, projects and creations – from the DESITA Gelato Award to Speed Queen, the photography contest #WORKSFORTHEM and the opening of our offices in Tehran. Amidst all the buzz and action, we also decided to move our headquarters in Riccione, Italy within a more suitable structure to…

The Lunch Break: Italians are rediscovering the restaurant

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Data derived from the 5th Food Service Network Meeting seems to confirm an interesting trend: while the number of customers dining out is growing at a predictable rate, the surprise lies in the choice of service. The catering trade has, in fact, grown by 0.6% in traffic and 0.9% in spending. Not big bucks, sure,…

DESITA #worksforthem Photography Contest on Instagram

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DESITA launches #worksforthem: a first-of-its-kind photography contest to capture and bring to focus foodservice professionals – their faces, gestures, moods, expressions and values. We might not pay attention to them, but everyday, each one of us comes in contact with a bartender, a caterer, a waiter, a baker, a pastry chef, a gelato vendor and…

The DESITA Gelato Award 2016 – Wonderful Winning Ideas!

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Young, prepared and full of imagination – these were the characteristics of the many designers who participated in the first international contest for innovation in the gelato business – the DESITA Gelato Award, held at the Carpigiani Gelato University on 18th June, 2016. The initiative, developed in mid 2015 and launched at Sigep this year,…

Consulting in the Foodservice Industry: differences between Italy and Abroad

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Consulting is a big responsibility, regardless of the market segment. It is a complex activity that fits within the decision-making processes, and makes entrepreneurs extremely jealous. The presence of a “third” figure that come between a boss and a company (or a project) is not always easily digested and many prefer to fail alone rather…

Why a Creative Can Be a Company’s Best Friend

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These days there is a lot of talk about ‘disruptive innovation’. It is difficult to underline a precise and comprehensive definition of complex reasoning, but to us, disruptive innovation is a kind of innovation (in product, business model, etc.), which is so substantially ‘destructive’ that it is impossible to return to the previous market condition….

Sustainability in the Foodservice Industry

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. What is sustainability? Sustainability refers to all those practices deployed to meet the needs of the present generation, without compromising on the ability of the future generations to meet their own bespoke needs. Sustainability in the Foodservice Industry In the foodservice industry, sustainability is directly related to water and energy efficiency, use of green…

Working in Dubai: Exclusive Interview with Corrado Pani, Managing Partner Executive Chef of Solo – Bistronomie and Wine bar.

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Working in Dubai is a dream many professionals in the food and beverage industry strive to realize. However, sometimes their dream gets lost midway, for various reasons, the biggest being the difficulty of find a ‘winning formula’ that captures the imagination of the most demanding investors, in an exceedingly social and highly competitive culinary fabric….

3 Tips to Beat Boredom & Stress Out of Your Business Travel

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Do you travel frequently for work? Sex, solitude and curiosity will come to your rescue! During the 19 plus years of boring and strenuous journeys in planes, trains, ships and rental cars, I have often dreamed of teleportation. Given today’s extensive paraphernalia of controls and the ever increasing, almost hysterical fear of lack of safety,…

Enabling former sportsmen to become future entrepreneurs: 5 tips to invest intelligently in foodservice

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Cliché has it that when there is money, finding an investment opportunity becomes a secondary concern. Going by that train of thought, all that a retired millionaire footballer needs to do is buy real estate, liaison with some unidentified partners and kickstart his local business, of course with a registered office abroad. However, reality is…

Promoting gelato in the world? With an eye on Singapore – This is what Valentina Righi has in mind. An interview with the Public Relations Officer of the Fondazione Carpigiani.

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We connect with the concept of food every day: we think about recipes, food enthusiasts – foodies – bloggers and dedicated journalists, chefs that are now television personalities, photographers of dishes and menus to savour, while the term foodservice is slightly less familiar to the non professional. This is all the economic-production chain concerning restoration…

The Synergy of Food and Design

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The cross-pollination between the synergy of food and design has happened. Avant-garde designers are moving away from conformist design ideas and chiming in the long lost knowledge of food sourcing, preparation, presentation and consumption in sketching out restaurant blue-prints, planning spatial layouts and setting up the décor with a view to create an enhanced customer…

Hottest F&B Industry Trends around the World

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Thanks to innovative design and technological interventions, restaurants around the world are adopting new ways of doing business – practices that were practically unthinkable even half a decade ago! The last couple of years saw a whole bunch of new trends emerging in the global F&B industry – right from the popularity of Brussles sprouts…

#desitagelatoaward press conference highlights

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Sigep – 23/01/2016 – DESITA GELATO AWARD – press conference. DESITA GELATO AWARD registrations are open, go to www.desitagelatoaward.com to download the “contest form” to partecipate! Watch the short version of the press conference.

How to seduce Millennials: concept design vs new foodies

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Millennials: who are they from a retailer prospective? They are called Millennials or Generation Y. They are in the age within 18 and 35. About 12 million, only in Italy, hyper-connected, open to cultural influences, experimenters and searching for novelty. For some time now, marketing experts dedicate themselves to studying consumer habits and getting this important…

Meet the jury of DESITA GELATO AWARD 2016

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What have in common two designers, one food journalist, one editor, one gelato chef and one entrepreneur expert in design for business? That’s right: are the judges of the DESITA GELATO AWARD 2016 Participants, please meet here following the judges of the first International design contest about gelato: Alessandro Luciani Over 15 National and International…

DESITA GELATO AWARD 2016

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The first International design contest about gelato “You can’t buy happiness but you can buy gelato and that’s kind of same thing” It’s quite impossible to forget the first gelato of your life – so the last one – as opposed to other foods in need of a more crafty palate. It binds memories of…

Business Design Inspirations

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When we Design a new Concept, essentially, we Design its Business. When done well, good Business Design not only delights customers but also inspires other organizations. At DESITA, we work to delight and inspire; we work to set new industry benchmarks. We shift our focus from linear design processes and seek new avenues of inspiration…

We are all looking for good reasons to do things, right?

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Saving a boy six hours of walking in a sunny day, with his feet on the dry land, and the risk of being attacked by some wild animals, just to go to school, is a very good reason, isn’t it? It is for us! DESITA is proud to supports Bicycles for humanity trough its Italian chapter…

Season Greetings and Happy 2016

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The famous Film Director Federico Fellini used to always say: “an emotion must never be stopped.” Clinging tight to this thought, we are sending out the last post of the year, with the commitment to continue on consolidating our relationship with all those who have chosen DESITA as a Partner for the development of their businesses….

DESITA supports business women

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In Italy much has been said concerning the difficulties women face in consolidating their professional position and achieving success compared to their male colleagues. The journey is paved with even more difficulties for those courageous women who cultivate entrepreneurial ambitions, especially in the catering/food business. It’s obvious that we are facing a primary cultural distortion…

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