On the breakfast tables in the hotels we stayed at in Italy they had very small trash cans.  These turned out to be very useful.  Breakfast was served buffet style and we invariably ended up with trash.  Yogurt containers, butter wrappers, banana peels, the piece of toast you dropped and much more.  It was very convenient to have a place on the table to put all of it.

We don’t do that in the USA. Yet.  But it is an opportunity for someone.  They were about the size of a kids beach pail and varied in design.  The perfect one would have the the establishments name on it.

I failed to get a picture of this innovation transfer idea but I have sprinkled this post with pictures of restaurants in Italy to whet your appetite if not your interest.