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The Tahona Society Competition 2018 was truly a success. The tremendous amount of impact of this global bartender community competition was seen in the 110 sustainable projects that participated, 15 of which were selected to go to the final round in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Mile Castro
David Martin
UK
MY PROJECT IS CALLED: Hospitality Gardens
IT IS ABOUT: So many bars & restaurants have unused outdoor spaces in the UK. Hospitality Gardens want to utilize these spaces by opening them up to local growers.
Creating greener spaces which serve functionally for cultivating produce alongside a bars cocktail programme and for the grower to sell on and develop their own independent business
Jorge Cruz
PERÚ
MY PROJECT IS CALLED: E-Comanda
IT IS ABOUT: Focuses on the thermal paper we use in command printers, this is highly toxic due to its component Bisphenol. The objective that we want to achieve with E COMANDAS is to reduce the danger of the workers when handling these papers in the bar kitchen and of our clients when handling these papers via tickets and/or invoices.
Kristo Tomingas
BALTICS
MY PROJECT IS CALLED: Bartenders Money Wisdom
IT IS ABOUT: A platform for bartenders to exchange their knowledge of successes & fails when it comes to growing in their hospitality careers. Via his website, a bartender could put together a plan (both business & financial) to learn how to reach their goals of opening their own venue.
Kseniya Yashchuk
BELARUS
MY PROJECT IS CALLED: Happy Brain
IT IS ABOUT: Happy Brain is a wellness project focusing on educating the hospitality industry on the importance of healthy eating. It plans to employ this by catering events like bar shows & delivering healthy meals to hospitality workers during shifts.
Heaven Luan
CHINA
MY PROJECT IS CALLED: EPC
IT IS ABOUT: An online platform where you can exchange recycled products for points that can be redeemed for other recycled products or services. These exchanges will begin between cocktail bars, flower shops, coffee shops, fruit suppliers & alcohol distributors.
Diana Figueroa & David Roque
CUBA
MY PROJECT IS CALLED: Eco Jibaro
IT IS ABOUT: Focuses on adapting the concepts of sustainability, social responsibility and seasonality. Working with small producers they are searching to respect the raw material & maximize the use as a whole.
Davide Capodicasa
ITALY
MY PROJECT IS CALLED: Eutropia
IT IS ABOUT: Eutropia is an academy in Palermo, Italy for migrants and citizens to work together in improving & innovating the bar community. It will be a working space that interchanges as a café, bar & academy that brings together experienced or novice bartenders with migrants to work and learn with each other.
Ale Diorio
MEXICO
MY PROJECT IS CALLED: Tenders on the Road
IT IS ABOUT: A bartending agency that guarantees professionally trained bartenders for hire for venues & events. She provides fair financial security, mental health services & a high level of hospitality education for those who work through ‘Tenders on the Road’
Connor Thornton
NORWAY
MY PROJECT IS CALLED: Lighthouse
IT IS ABOUT: Connor aims to build an ordering system for bars & restaurants through using a QR code. Within this system will be the Lighthouse project, designed to educate the guest about staying safe while enjoying your night out. Including maps to safe places, venues & how to alert someone if feeling unsafe.
Emelie Hjärtström
SWEDEN
MY PROJECT IS CALLED: Always Here
IT IS ABOUT: A pin-concept where those who wear the pin are strong pioneers of creating safe environments. If a person is feeling uncomfortable in a situation in a hospitality venue, they can search for someone wearing the “Always Here” pin and know that that person will be there to help.
Andrii Osypchuk
UKRAINE
MY PROJECT IS CALLED: Ecomanifest
IT IS ABOUT: Ecomanifest aims to create a community amongst bars & restaurants to sort trash & cooperate with local companies to recycle into coasters & souvenirs. They also are working to raise money from cocktails sold to plant trees in their city.
Christopher Bidmead
USA
MY PROJECT IS CALLED: Hospy
IT IS ABOUT: Hospy is a learning & skills management platform designed to create opportunities for hospitality workers in the global gig economy. They are building a platform that assess, manages and deploys hospitality minded problem solvers
Erik Puryear
USA
MY PROJECT IS CALLED: Bartenders Safety & Future Fund
IT IS ABOUT: BAR CU is a credit union for hospitality workers. It is too often that our industry is not taught about saving, especially with the tipping culture of the United States. BAR CU will encourage hospitality staff & venue owners to learn about savings, investments & planning for their future.
Karol Lubash
Fabrizio Candino
Haydee Barrón Flores
George Hunter
Cameron Leigh
Mikhail Kanavalenka
Anton Budkevich
Alex Black
Mackenzie Chilton
Valentin Vignolles
Tomi Hiltunen
Sampsa Tukia
Manol Lazarov
Laura Kelton
William Campbell
Loga Raj
Sofia Marques
Leo
Elizabeth
Gordon Guo
Jeppe Nothlev
25 contestants from 18 markets. Jeppe Nothlev brings the trophy home to Denmark with "Sweet Effort"
Anthony Bholinger
Karen Grill
Attila Szelhoffer
Thomas Hausknecht
Kaiko Tulloch
Oliver Cush
Samuel Dedieu
Oscar Wereza
Egor Kozlovsky
Mario Mena
Elizabeth Gordillo
Alain Branco
Mike Birdsey
Karolis Jakelevicius
Aj Snetler
Jonathan Callaghan
Evan Rage
Ana Milena Alzate
Laura Barbosa
Mikhail Melnik
Adil Zhelnov
Yigitcan Gencer
Mete Bas
Bahaddin Aydin
Kelsey Ramage
21 contestants from 19 markets. Mexican Flavor Revolution Concept. Kelsey Ramage brings the trophy home to the UK with “Nunca Mueras”
Evgeny Nagimov
Manuela Lerchbaumer
Vainius Balcaitis
Cho Hyun Sung
Mikhail Konovalenko
Mateusz Szuchnik
Shane Harte
Simon Kistenfeger
David Fuentes
Nuno Figueiredo
Christina Veira
Abraham Delgado
Max Green
Bethany Ham
William Cutting
Julio Cesar
Christopher Steward
Thanos Loannou
Michael Capoferri
José Luis León
José Luis León won 1st place for MX with his “Mama’s Soup”
Heinz Kaiser
Cocktail competition. Heinz Kaiser from Austria won with his “La Paloma Negra”
Charles Joly
US competitor Charles Joly’s “Eve’s Answer” won best margarita
Kurt Schlechter
Kurt from South Africa won our 1st Margarita Competition with his “My Friends’ Margarita”
Mile Castro
David Martin
Jorge Cruz
Kristo Tomingas
Kseniya Yashchuk
Heaven Luan
Diana Figueroa & David Roque
Davide Capodicasa
Ale Diorio
Connor Thornton
Emelie Hjärtström
Andrii Osypchuk
Christopher Bidmead
Erik Puryear
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