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Renate Overhorst lives on the Amstelvlietstraat in Oost and wrote a letter to her neighbours informing them that they can hire her as a street sommelier. Neighbourhood residents can choose between three boxes, each with its own theme, such as the theme of spring wines. When clients inform Renate what they are going to eat, she looks for a suitable wine to go with it.
Read MoreThis platform allows users, without prior registration, to contact shops and restaurants nearby through WhatsApp, Telegram and Facebook Messenger, to order food or groceries and support the local economy.
Read MoreThe initiative was launched by four friends concerned by agricultural supply and the shortage of harvesters due to border closures during COVID. They created this platform to enable people willing to support the farmers in their region to help with the harvest, by simply subscribing online.
Read MoreThe masks have a small hole in the middle, which can fit a straw for sipping cocktails and keep socializing. Macomber and her assistant produced 40 masks in a week for $30 each, which were sold out in 30 minutes.
Read MoreTheyo launches its first 'virtual chocolate tasting' on Friday, May 15th. Instead of going out and traveling to rare countries, Theyo takes customers on a chocolate journey around the world, taking place from home. All they need is a tasting box and a keen interest in chocolate.
Read More'Community Mart' is an e-market project initiated by the Quezon City government where local residents can purchase fresh products from nearby markets through a mobile application.
Read MoreFor many halal restaurants in Metro Detroit, Ramadan is the busiest time of the year. But the big gatherings and after-hour food festivals are not possible during COVID. Bismillah Kabob in Warren will therefore offer Ramadan pick-me-up. In Dearborn, Kings Bakery switched to creating frozen ready-to-bake pies and pie dough for customers to pre-order.
Read MoreParanoid Fan was an app helping US citizens going to an NFL game to know where to park or where to find concessions. Due to COVID, the company rebranded and is now called Nepjun, using the same mapping and delivery technology for a new platform that helps food banks and pantries digitise. People can find nearby food banks, place online orders, and select curbside pickup in a specific time slot or choose delivery.
Read MoreImperfect Foods, which partnered with Jet Blue Airlines, offer their cheese and snack trays to the public via its online produce marketplace for $2.99 each. In addition, United Airlines is also encouraging nostalgic flyers to order its signature in-flight Stroopwafels for home delivery.
Read MoreThe initiative, ‘Marriott on Wheels’, will now be available in several cities including Bengaluru, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Agra, Pune, Mumbai, Coimbatore and Goa, in 20 Mariott hotels. The facility will extend to additional cities, as more hotels join the initiative.
Read MoreThe initiative, launched by a pediatric nurse at UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in San Francisco and a local restaurant, helps paying struggling restaurants thanks to donations, while feeding hungry hospital workers. Frontline Foods is now expanding to NYC and tries to prioritize hospitals that are already triaging COVID patients and dealing with a high demand.
Read MoreThis initiative, promoted mainly by the non-profit organisation ‘United Way’ allows people in Guatemala to help each other and to make donations to give away boxes of food and basic hygiene products, to support a family for 15 days.
Read MoreTo help people at home missing the draught beer experience, The Five Points Brewering Co launched casks to sell, available on their online store, enabling consumers to turn their home into mini-pubs.
Read MoreThe North Sydney cafe is one of the coffee places in Sydney getting innovative by selling its remaining stock as groceries. They offer rice, flour, canned goods, coffee beans and alcohol to those who come to get a coffee or some food to go. When cafes will be allowed to re-open, many said that their grocery offerings will remain.
Read MoreTrade Me is working with local suppliers - often hit had by the pandemic - to sell fresh grocery boxes. These boxes include organic meat, produce and baked goods.
Read MoreThis new tool will assist restaurants that are preparing to reopen dining rooms in the coming days and weeks, to help diners keep COVID-safe social distancing measures. The kit offers technologies to assist restaurants with contactless order and payment.
Read MoreRestaurants will face a new challenge now, having to manage the volume of reservations while adhering to strict social distancing measures. To facilitate the process, Open Table launched a new ‘Open Door’ pricing program for both new and existing restaurants. The program features no subscription fees through the end of the year.
Read MoreEAS Catering, which maintains high culinary hygiene standards through laboratory testing of food, water, hands and surfaces, has been commissioned by governments, business organisations and community centers to provide meals to quarantined people and medical staff impacted by COVID.
Read MoreFaced with empty rooms and no travelers, the Swedish hotel in Lidköping reinvents itself by putting tables and chairs in its 67 hotel rooms, turning them into COVID-safe, private restaurant rooms for people to dine in.
Read MoreThis company facilitated online training sessions for the employees of duty free stores across key airports in Russia. The tuition was delivered by representatives of alcohol beverage companies including Abrau-Durso Russian Wine House, Rémy Cointreau, Whyte & Mackay and Baron Philippe de Rothschild.
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