Hostmilano 2019 delivers the goods & the inaugural edition of Middle East Design and Hospitality Week
Before the doors of the vast pavilions of Fieramilano opened on Friday, October 18 for the 41st edition of Hostmilano, organizers promised the show would be “bigger, fuller and more innovative than ever.” And Hostmilano 2019 did not disappoint
FCSI at the forefront
Innovation remained a constant thread for activity at the FCSI booth throughout the show. On Sunday the booth hosted the final round of live judging for FCSI’S inaugural Start Me Up Innovation Awards, sponsored by Electrolux Professional. The 3D food printing system Procusini 4.0 from Print2taste Gmbh, the SCRAEGG Pro unit from SCRAEGG Gmbh and the Tablee platform from Tablee had one last chance to impress judges, comprising of five FCSI Professional Members and the design director of Electrolux Professional, and make a final pitch to win the coveted trophy. German start-up business SCRAEGG, which can whisk and heat eggs soups and porridge to 96°C using a patent-pending steam nozzle, triumphed, taking home the trophy that evening at FCSI’S Sponsor Recognition Party.
Panel sessions included ‘The connected kitchen’, sponsored by Irinox, which featured Frank Wagner FCSI, Dene Rachid FCSI, Joseph Schumaker FCSI and Pietro Romanazzi of Irinox. Another chaired by Michael Jones and sponsored by Middleby Ventless Cooking Solutions, addressed, ‘Ventless cooking: dispelling the myths’ and featured Middleby’s Scott Heim and consultants Armando Pucci FCSI, Brandon Kua FCSI and Nahum Goldberg FCSI.
Away from the booth, Foodservice Consultants Michael Jones chaired a ‘Titans of Industry’ roundtable of leaders from foodservice equipment manufacturers. Attendees included: Iker
Alberdi Urkia, CEO of Onnera Group; David Brewer, COO of Middleby; Andrea Cocchi, CEO of Ali Group for EMEA and APAC Regions and CEO of Carpigiani Group; Katia da Ros, CEO of Irinox; Stefan Scheringer, CEO of Meiko; Peter Stadelmann, CEO of RATIONAL; and Georg Weber, CEO of MKN. The event was sponsored by Kason Industries and co-hosted by VP of sales, David Ring and will published in Foodservice Consultant in Q1 2020.