Oneida's new product introductions at this year's NRA Show, including Schonwald's new CONNECT RADIAL dinnerware.
 Oneida, global leader in designing the dining experience, will showcase a new and extensive collection of banquetware pieces at the 2013 National Restaurant Show. “Our Oneida Banquetware collection is designed to enhance creative culinary presentations. This innovative new collection allows food and beverage teams more freedom to stage innovative events that include food storage, beverage dispensers, serving platforms, risers, pillars and bamboo accessories. Inspired by compelling design styles including a less-is-more Bauhaus positioning, and innovative geometric Art Deco shapes, the Oneida Buffet Collection is a compelling compliment to our tabletop portfolio”, stated Umberto Filice, Senior Vice President of North American Sales. New product introductions will also be featured in Drinkware, Dinnerware, and Flatware positioned effectively within the prevailing design, food and lifestyle trends in the market.
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FLAME™, new from Stölzle, features the fluid graceful profiles of fire. Emotional and organic, this lux shape delivers visual excitement. The pure tactile satisfaction of these dramatic tapers, with shear rims, maximizes the fine dining experience.
CELEBRATION™, new from Stölzle, is both sophisticated and mainstream. This elegant shape features a drawn stem, and sheer fire polished rim. Exceptional brilliance that is enhanced by seamless stems clearly distinguishes this classic.
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SAHARA™, new from Sant’Andrea focuses the culinary visual using textural terracing. Framing each piece with movement and organic texture, this fine porcelain shape speaks to culinary creativity with a voice that merges with our natural world.
CONNECT RADIAL™, new from Schönwald, captures a modern linear spirit. Concentric and crisp, the visual created inspires precision and radial perfection. Clearly upscale, with a range of clean and sleek shapes enhanced using subtle refinement of axis.
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New SAHARA from Sant ' Andrea is just one of the many new products form Oneida Foodservice.
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VERGE™ creates an aesthetic that draws from the folded surfaces of origami. Each gleamingly polished surface suggests jeweled facets of reflective energy. Unique and textural sculpture in 18/10, define creativity on the tabletop.
PERPETUA™ is clean and sleek, modern and understated. High-lux mirror polishing reminds us that flatware is jewelry for the table. Formed from solid 18/10 stainless steel of the highest quality, PERPETUA’s form follows its function.
 Bauscher's new ENJOY COLORS has five decors, including new "EFFECTS" shown here. Bauscher’s new ENJOY range now includes plates with narrow rims in four sizes and new soup bowls, providing restaurateurs with even more options for presenting their culinary creations in a highly individual and versatile way. Bauscher will also introduce “ENJOY COLORS”, five new decorating ideas that show the variety of the collection. Since its launch in 2010, ENJOY has been very popular with hotels and restaurants as well as professional caterers. The collection’s design, inspired by the natural curves of a delicate necklace, has been nominated for the 2013 German Design Award. While the existing plates from Bauscher's original ENJOY collection, with their elegant, wide rims, are a real eye-catcher, the appeal of the new narrow-rimmed plates is their especially large surface area, making them the perfect addition to the ENJOY range and offers a wide variety of options for food presentation. Bauscher is demonstrating the versatility of the ENJOY collection with five new décor innovations. ENJOY COLORS new decors allow something for every restaurant menu and ambiance: • The fine lines of the Effects design produce a three-dimensional impression, blending into the rim and underlining its soft curve in the third dimension. • The mosaic-like Country Style décor opens up different gastronomic backdrops depending on the color scheme. Red, for example, suits the contemporary country house style, while gray conveys understated elegance. • Fancy brings a sophisticated highlight to any table setting. The grainy, mesh-like pattern produces a deceptively realistic effect that evokes high- quality leather. • The floral pattern of Modern Romance has a loosely scattered effect. The interplay of the colors lends the stylized flower pattern, with its silhouette-style blooms, a special charm – ideal for cuisine that is inventive and light. • With its vibrant and contemporary hues, the Block Colors range reawakens the pleasure of dining. Whether used for flamboyant individual pieces, or in combination with different shades or patterns, this intensive color range brings great vitality to the table. It’s been a busy year for the folks at Bauscher USA. The company now distributes five brands of commercial tabletop products: Bauscher, HEPP, Tafelstern, WMF, and Luigi Bormioli. These five brands are an ideal match through their category expertise and European roots. All five brands have a long history of cooperation in the global market, and this natural union allows for a comprehensive tabletop solution. Needless to say, Bauscher USA is now the source for the complete hospitality tabletop. To learn more about Bauscher and all its great hospitality tabletop products, go here: http://www.bauscherusa.com/
 Deshoulières SEYCHELLES dinnerware comes in a variety of color finishes and is commercial dishwasher safe. With the upcoming NRA Show in Chicago, one company that we are excited to catch up with is Deshoulières. After an impressive first exhibition in the Spring show in NYC recently, this French producer of upscale porcelain has since opened its US subsidiary, Deshoulières Apilco USA, in NYC. With its new branch, the French hard porcelain producer will dedicate itself to the North American hospitality market, through direct approach of both high quality, well designed products, and quality customer service.
| With Deshoulieres' new focused strategy for the North American market comes new product lines, broader choices, and tailor-made services....each responding to the high standards of the hospitality professionals from both an asethetic and a practical perspective. The creation of the new subsidiary will allow Deshoulieres to work directly with their customers, in the US and Canada, and serve their needs at their best.
Founded in 1826, the Deshoulières Group is today one of the leading French porcelain manufacturers. The company's two brands Deshoulieres Chef (DC) and Apilco supply hotels, restaurants and other professionals around the globe and already in NYC with customers such as Café Boulud, La Grenouille, Gramercy Tavern and more.
 Deshoulières EPURE |  Apilco's ACQUA | There always has to be a first step before there can a second. Deshoulières has begun to take that first step in the hospitality market for this part of the world. With the style and quality of their products, we have no doubt that North American restaurants and hotels will find this French producer très intéressant.
You can see Deshoulières/Apilco at booth #6159 in Chicago.
¿Tiene clientes que hablan español? Tuxton sigue yendo más allá de complacer con su nuevo folleto. Do you have customers who speak Spanish? Tuxton continues to go the extra mile to please with it's new brochure. This is a company that continues to execute the basics of brand building very, very well. Bien hecho, Tuxton!
The new DRIFT shape from Vertex China is showcased in its new website, along with the company's growing range of versatile hospitality tabletop products.
Vertex China is at it again. Redefining versatility. The new dinnerware design DRIFT from Vertex will bring multiple benefits to virtually any foodservice operation. Benefits to an restaurant or banquet operator will include cost reduction, expanded opportunities, and heightening the dining experience.  The wave-like design of both items in DRIFT allows the creativity of the chef to come alive! With its versatile shape, DRIFT from Vertex is the perfect design to allow for the introduction of new menu items, while at the same time reducing operator costs through a reduction in the number of overall serving pieces needed. Extremely versatile and flexible, these plates define multi-tasking. DRIFT can be used for multiple courses, ranging from appetizers through deserts, eliminating the need for multiple plates. Vertex China's newest introduction has a bright white body color that will match most tabletops, so they can be introduced at any time. Finally, the wave-like design of DRIFT separates the food and controls portions, reducing food costs. Visually, the wave-like design is harmonizing and aesthetically pleasing. New DRIFT from Vertex is both contemporary and elegant simultaneously. The squared shape is modern and edgy, yet the elevated ridges add an elegant and softer feel to the plate. Combine this look with the creative use of sauces and plating to add a “wow” factor to any serving. Vertex China. Versatility Redefined. To check out the new Vertex China website and see the entire range of hospitality tabletop products from Vertex, go here: http://www.vertexchina.com/
While Turgla owner Huseyin Ozan discusses their Gural Porcelain line in the above video, we still like the way the Gural porcelain mixes with the fun - and colorful - Turgla glass plates and serving pieces show at the right. There’s also a synergistic approach with the colored glassware . “The whiteness of the porcelain, combined with the brilliant colors we do in our glassware make for really terrific table settings,” offered Ozan. “They really complement each other well.”U.S. based Turgla offers the hospitality industry a wide range of both high quality porcelain and rainbow of colors in their glass plates, serving pieces, and buffet items.With the trends towards eating more organically and naturally, combined with increasingly health-conscious menus more and more chefs have found Turgla's glass plates, bowls, and accessories the perfect solution for their guests. | | You can view the entire collection of Gural Porcelain and Turgla glass serving pieces, along with Turgla's extensive buffetware offering by going here: http://www.turgla.com/
To celebrate its 150th anniversary, famed French porcelain maker Bernardaud reached out to various artists around the world to create their vision of the company. Paris artist Sarkis created the KINTSUGI design.
Founded in 1863, Bernardaud is the premier manufacturer of fine Limoges porcelain and proudly benefits from five generations of familial leadership. The company creates hotel and restaurant collections that bear in mind the operational constraints of luxury hotel and restaurants. The hallmark of Bernardaud is its commitment that every hotel and restaurant product is made to exacting quality standards that offer unmatched durability and creativity in design. Bernardaud recurrently partners with artists, designers, and chefs in the production of hospitality collections that are imbued with unrivaled beauty and luminosity. The company specializes in custom-order services and its collections are used by top-tier hotel and restaurant properties throughout the world. To celebrate its 150 years anniversary, Bernardaud has gone to meet the world of art by asking moviemakers, photographers and artists to bring their view of the company’s work and its image. It shows a three-part exhibition that shows how porcelain is present, living, luminous, sensual and inspiring. Among the artists chosen by Bernardaud is the Paris-based Sarkis, who described his inspiration for the project this way: | | “I had two sources of inspiration for the Kintsugi service. First, what if I held a dinner for 12 very different guests... would they get along? Second, I am fascinated by a 16th-century Japanese technique known as Kintsugi. The idea is to make visible repairs in fired ceramic using a mix of lacquer and gold, which increases the esthetic value. One might call it "the archeology of the future"! In other words, even if many copies of a plate exist, what counts is the original unit. Each plate is unique, because I made different repairs on each one, as if it were a precious ancient object. Like an archeologist adding value to objects that are found.
In the workshops in Limoges, I worked like a calligrapher, highly concentrated, and did all 12 plates in the same sitting. Inspiration struck like lightning."
Bernardaud's KINTSUGI, designed by Sarkis, is sold as a set of 12 individually designed dinner plates.
Sarkis, a French artist of Armenian origin, was born in Istanbul in 1938 and studied painting and interior architecture before moving to France in 1964. In 1967, he won the prize for painting awarded at the Paris Biennal. In 1969, he was invited by the great art critic Harald Szeermann to take part in an exhibition When Attitudes Become Form, which has been famous ever since:
"My work is always related to memory. Everything that I have experienced in my life is in it. " For more than 35 years, Sarkis has been imagining scenes constructed from stories inspired as much by a sense of place - memories inherent to particular places - as his own personal memories. He uses a variety of media (e.g. watercolors, video and sculpture) and materials (e.g. neon, magnetic tape and copper) and confronts objects from different contexts or cultures. This has given his body of work a unique poetic dimension that reveals a profound humanism and a great familiarity with world history. Sarkis has exhibited at many international exhibitions such as the Pompidou Center (Paris), Boymans Museum (Rotterdam), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Geneva). His work is held in many public and private collections. He has been living and working in Paris since 1964. To learn more about Bernardaud and it's hotel and restaurant collection of tabletop products, go here: http://www.bernardaud.fr/hotel-restaurant-fr13.html
 There’s no limit to what foodservice professionals can expect from the new Seltmann NO LIMITS line of white porcelain tableware from Frieling USA. Made in Germany to the highest quality standards, the full range features 49 different round and square pieces that are modular and compatible, so each item can be used individually or combined with others in the line. Matching platters can double as lid covers that protect food and make the pieces stackable. Saucers can cover cups, and platters and plates of various sizes and shapes can cover any piece in the line. With the look of contemporary simplicity that serves as a backdrop to today’s cuisine, the bowls and cups are slightly angled upward, so plates fit perfectly under or over them. NO LIMITS is oven, microwave, refrigerator and dishwasher safe. This sturdy tableware can be used indoors or outdoors, and can even withstand the high heat of salamander broiler ovens, eliminating the need to transfer food to a different plate for finishing gratin potatoes, macaroni and cheese and more. Seltmann’s porcelain has excellent heat storing capability, slowly releasing heat after preheating to keep food warm. The centers of the plates are thicker than the rims to store even more heat. Stronger, lighter and more translucent, Seltmann's NO LIMITS porcelain is composed of an ideal formula of 50% Caolin, 25% Quartz and 25% Feldspar. It is completely lead free and cadmium free, meeting strict California regulations. It is twice fired with eco-friendly natural gas for extreme hardness and durability. The extremely hard glaze of the fully vitrified NO LIMITS line – which ranks above metal, bone china and fine china on the Mohs scale of hardness – prevents scratching by knives or flatware. It resists breaking and chipping because of its rolled edges and material hardness. Unglazed feet are diamond polished three times to prevent scratching of wood or glass tables or other china, and leveling prevents liquids from running on the plate. The Seltmann NO LIMITS line from Frieling includes a variety of bowls, platters, plates, cups, saucers and serving items, including a 40 ounce coffee pot, sugar bowl, creamer, pitcher, gravy boat and salt and pepper set. List prices range from $10 to $70.
Seltmann has been family owned for more than 100 years, with an ongoing commitment to investing in state-of-the-art technologies. Frieling USA is the exclusive distributor for Seltmann products in the United States and Canada. To learn more about Seltmann from Frieling, go here: http://frieling.com/
other standard products such as Lucaris Crystal, Studio William flatware, Chelsea glassware, and dKe dinnerware. Supplying the entire tabletop, MCIC has built quite a following in an incredibly short period of time. The new website also has a downloadable version of the MCIC 2013 catalog.
Great products, great people....and now, a great new site.
The Lucaris BLISS series of crystal wineglasses has been a hit for MCIC since the very beginning.
To see the new website from Merchandise Connection International Corp and learn more about their wide portfolio of products, go here: http://www.merchandiseconn.com/
Churchill has launched new additions to its contemporary GLIDE collection. The collection which was originally launched late last year has proven incredibly versatile in use with establishments layering items and using the sloped serving bowls in other areas such as buffets and deli-displays. The key range is now extended to include three sizes of rectangular plates. Designed to fit with the square items already in the range there are plenty of options for presenting food to the table and for the accompanying side dishes. The sculptured curved edges add an instant modern feel, while a very flat center assists creativity in presentation. Consideration, as with all Churchill ranges, has been given to the practicality ‘in-use’ and each piece has been rigorously tested for durability, stackability for back of house and items are deliberately light-weight. Vanessa Carter – Churchill’s Head of New Product Development commented, “We are really excited about GLIDE, it is a very contemporary collection and has allowed us the opportunity to create something completely different for establishments wishing to differentiate themselves from the competition. The designs are soft, yet sculptured in a way which enhances the presentation and visual appeal of all types of food. By enabling layering of the different sizes of plates there is an opportunity for adding value through presentation. It also fits in with the trend for combination dishes and smaller tapas style dining.” The full collection also features a number of serving bowls and dishes of different shapes.
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