Kevin Hart’s new vegan fast-food restaurant in L.A. lures hundreds on opening day.
The first Hart House location opened Thursday in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Westchester, a short walk from the In-N-Out by LAX.
Hart House is currently building out two other stores, with one of them will be the chain’s future flagship location at Sunset and Highland, just south of where the Oscars are held each year. That one reportedly will have a drive-through, and it’s also a short walk from the In-N-Out in Hollywood.
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Taco Bell has taken a step into the future with a brand new cantina in Times Square that is fully digital, meaning you can place your chalupa order digitally and pick it up in an automat-like cubby.
Opened in the iconic Paramount Building (built in 1927 at 1501 Broadway), this special Taco Bell will serve up all your regular guilty pleasure meals and cocktails via 10 electronic ordering kiosks that you can pay through.
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This ambitious project is the result of the vision of Luciano Cimmino, entrepreneur president of Pianoforte Holding, which owns the brands Yamamay, Carpisa, and Jaked. The Restaurant opened a few days ago in Florence, in Via de ‘Brunelleschi 11, between Piazza Repubblica and Piazza Duomo, on three levels for 1,500 square meters.
A sophisticated and welcoming restaurant, designed by Studio Redaelli e Associati, in collaboration with Costa Group, the Italian company specialized, for over 40 years, in the design and furnishings for Food & Beverage. Franco Costa, President of the Costa Group, comments “It was a privilege to have participated in this magnificent project with the creation of unique and memorable furnishings”.
Costa Group, a company specialized in the design and fitting of public F&B shops, boasts more than 6.000 shops worldwide and many collaborations with important brands in the Food & Retail industry.
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Chipotle Mexican Grill is once again expanding north of the border.
The quick-serve chain will open a location in Surrey, British Columbia, on March 30. It will be Chipotle’s first new Canadian location since it opened a site in Markham, Ontario, in October 2018.
Chipotle plans to open eight locations in Canada this year, with the majority in British Columbia. The new sites will include the first Canadian “Chipotlane,” a drive-thru digital order pickup lane, in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. There are currently 23 Chipotle restaurants in Canada, with locations in the greater Toronto and Vancouver metro areas as well as Ottawa and London, Ontario.
Läderach, the brand known for its fresh artisanal chocolate and piles of chocolate bark, opened its largest global flagship on Fifth Avenue on December 10th. A one-story, rotating cocoa-bean sculpture featuring real chocolate graced the 2,500-square-foot store, more than double to triple its typical store size. The store also will feature live chocolate production demos and classes.
The location marks Läderach’s third in the U.S. after opening its first on Lexington Avenue in New York’s Midtown East a year ago. Its second in New Jersey’s American Dream mall recently opened over the Black Friday weekend in November. The flagship also marks the company’s 100th worldwide after it opened 12 new stores in six countries this year, the fastest pace since the family-run business entered the brick-and-mortar retail business in 2004 and began operating stores under its own name in 2013, CEO Johannes Läderach said in an interview. The company also plans to open a store in Washington, D.C. early next year.
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A rendering of the new Tiffany & Co. store’s Blue Box Cafe in South Coast Plaza.
West Coast fans of the 1961 Audrey Hepburn classic “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” will finally get to live out their fantasy of dining at the famous jewelry store.
In December, Tiffany & Co. is opening a Blue Box Cafe at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa. It follows last year’s temporary Blue Box Cafe pop-up at the jewelry store’s Beverly Hills boutique and the 2017 launch of its first Blue Box Cafe at its New York flagship store. (The Fifth Avenue cafe is expected to reopen next year.)
The Blue Box Cafe will offer a menu similar to its New York counterpart, with American classics made from regionally sourced ingredients. Although initially, the cafe will offer limited service because of coronavirus restrictions, the plan is to offer full-service next spring.
An innovative place in the historic Gauthier spa from the early 19th century. It is an unmissable stop for those visiting the Neapolitan city.
It is a fascinating and ambitious project, to give new life to the historic Gauthier spa from the early 1800s. A past that, combined with contemporary furnishing elements that shine through the interior design expertly curated by Costa Group. The linear structure of the ancient spa complex is clearly legible where the cells dedicated to treatments now house the different concepts.
Costa Group, a company specialized in the design and fitting of public F&B shops, boasts more than 6.000 shops worldwide and many collaborations with important brands in the Food & Retail industry.
Today we talk about Costa Group s.r.l. and we sit down with the CEO, Sandro Costa to learn more about the Company.
Industry: Hospitality, Food & Beverage
Location: La Spezia, Italy
Employees: 100
Completed projects: 6,000
Tell us about your company. What kind of product or service do you provide?
Costa Group is a company specializing in the design and fitting of F&B venues, boasting more than 6.000 shops and collaborations worldwide with the most important brands of the Food & Beverage industry.
One of the key features is the design and construction of the shops on site: from the study of the format to the 1:1 scale simulation inside the factory, the assembly, and the subsequent assistance. It is a fast process, in close collaboration with the customer in order to deliver a finished, tailored product.
Today Costa Group is a combination of technology and research, it is much more than a simple piece of furniture: Costa Group means creating a product that can communicate something, not just to be displayed.
How many employees does your company currently have? Where is your office located?
The company extends over 13.000 sqm immersed in the countryside in Riccò del Golfo, in the province of La Spezia (Italy). This is where ideas and projects are shaped to become examples of Made in Italy around the world. We have our own team of architects, engineers, and designers but we frequently cooperate with internationally renowned architecture firms.
Our facility includes wood, marble, metal, glass, and fiberglass processing. We also have Graphic, Administration, Marketing, and Sales departments, for a total of about 100 employees.
What inspired the business and where is your company today?
Born from a visionary idea of innovating bakeries, we have come a long way in 40 years of experience. From Riccò del Golfo, a small Ligurian town, we cross the five continents exporting our creations all over the F&B world. Costa Group’s recipe is simple: we want to bring ideas from paper to fittings, we export Italian tradition and culture overcoming everything that is just ordinary, classic, and unoriginal.
Tell us about one specific project you worked on and which challenges you solved?
Among many projects, we would like to mention La Grande
Epicerie de Paris (LVMH Group). 3000 sqm on four floors with a gastronomic
offer that includes excellent wines, baked products, butchery, etc.
It is a prestigious project we are very proud of, and we
developed every single detail in cooperation with Le Bon Marché’s team of
architects.
The first challenge that we faced was due to the high
level of details and finishing of every single piece that we manufactured. In
addition to this, we had to meet the deadlines both during the design and
logistics phases and during the assembly, since the opening date had already
been set and could not be postponed. Finally, our design and manufacturing had
been carried out exclusively based on plans and drawings, since the building
was still under construction.
Which milestones are you planning to achieve in the next 12 months?
From a commercial point of view, we are working on further development in the US market, where we have already been successfully working for over 12 years with several important projects including Sorbillo pizzerias, the renovation of the former La Centrale in Miami (now, Luna Park Miami) at Brickell City Centre, and obviously Eataly stores in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Dallas (under construction).
In general, for 2021 we are looking forward to a significant global recovery of the F&B industry, and we will provide restaurateurs and Ho.Re.Ca entrepreneurs solutions that can help them to face the new, post-COVID challenges.
What do you like most about 4URSPACE?
What we really appreciate is the dynamism and the reliability that allows reaching professionals from the Retail industry.
After months of holding out, Krispy Kreme has finally put a date on the calendar for the opening of its sprawling Times Square flagship store. On September 15, the new store — located at 1601 Broadway, at West 48th Street — will flip the switch on the world’s largest hot light, the company’s signal that fresh doughnuts are ready for eating. Unlike the doughnut chain’s other New York City outposts, the Times Square location has lots of bells and whistles, including a glaze waterfall and a production line capable of making close to 400 dozen doughnuts per hour. There will also be a 24-hour walk-up window, where customers can order boxes of doughnuts for takeout.
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