People like enjoying breakfast, lunch or dinner outside during the summer. Bars, beach bars and restaurants with a terrace, swimming pools, tourist resorts and campsites all become highly popular for pleasant outdoor evenings in the company of friends and family. In order to enable this type of business to offer the best possible service, we present a range of high-quality tableware for outdoor use.
We’re still talking about the new features and product range expansions in our catalogue. As part of the continuing replacement of plastic products with environmentally-friendly products, we now present new items made from PLA, wood, carton packaging and bamboo.
We would like to highlight the new line of products made from PLA, a material that besides being made from 100% natural resources such as corn starch, sugar cane or manioc, is the most mature bioplastic in the market. It is a strong and robust biodegradable and compostable material with an elegant appearance that is suitable for food products and freezing. PLA has become a perfect alternative to oil derivatives for disposable products given that it helps care for the environment (it can be treated as organic waste) and reduces our carbon footprint. In our new catalogue, you will find a range of PLA cups and cutlery (pg. 119).
Our policy of respect for the environment gets stronger every year. We have been awarded environmental certifications that demonstrate our firm commitment to replacing plastic products with environmentally-friendly products. All this is clearly reflected in our new catalogue.
We have been awarded the prestigious ECOLABEL certificate for the majority of white tissue, single colour and recyclable napkins; the environmentally-friendly products we manufacture include rolled up towelettes, sachet wipes and Flush-Linen hand wipes, which are fully flushable, 100% biodegradable, 100% natural, contain no chemical binders, and are compostable and FSC/PEFC certified.
Our most loyal customers will have seen that García de Pou often tries to bring art into our everyday lives. We are always looking for ways to ensure that the beauty of art is somehow manifested at our company through one or another of its various disciplines: design, painting, sculpture or, on this occasion, video art. The Fundació Miró and the artist Joan Bennàssar chose us as partners for the “Beehave” project.
Garcia de Pou took part in the well-known Host Fayre of Milan, (October 20th until October 24th), which has become a world reference in the HoReCa sector after holding 40 editions.
As we told you in a previous article, Garcia de Pou began its exporting career in 1986. Today this activity creates 40 % of our total sales. The Italian market is our third largest, after France and Portugal.
Napkins speak for your restaurant
Taking the starting point that you have discarded cloth napkins to use in your establishment due to the high cost of washing and ironing and the excellent alternatives of disposable products. It’s important to see what type of disposable napkin is best aligned with the message of your business. Napkins transmit if your business wants to project an image of concern for the environment or if your approach is more focused towards the customer’s experience, if your decisions are closely tied to budget criteria, or if, for example, you want to project an image of esthetic sensibility and taste for innovation in every detail.
We’ve got it! You can download it right here. In this new catalogue, we’re incorporating accessories and articles for bars and restaurants that’ll make our client’s job much easier.
In Europe, it’s quite common for a waiter to ask a customer if he/she wishes to take their left overs home. In the future, we might even get used to not having our bread served to us unless we specifically order it. Here are some initiatives and anecdotes that some restaurants are trying in order to avoid wasting food. We want to give you some ideas for your business today.
If you are wedding planner or other events organizer it can be that you have clients who hire you to plan family parties, or parties before-the-wedding, after-the-wedding, or supplementary caterings that don’t need porcellain and silver tableware. Sometimes a very high budget is already assigned to the main catering and for the supplementary parties it would be fine to be able to reduce costs.
Some food delivery companies have broken the moulds. From now on, you don’t just need a pizza, kebab or Chinese food craving in order to get a take away. There are companies bringing traditional restaurant food as well as the coolest restaurant’s menu with the latest gastronomic tendencies over to their client’s houses.