Wooden spoon (fast food restaurant)
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1961 |
| Seat | Lingen (Ems) , Germany |
| management | Martha van den Berg; Julia Hessler; Torsten Hessler |
| Number of employees | 781 (2017) |
| sales | 29.0 million euros (2017, GmbH without franchise partners) |
| Branch | System catering |
| Website | www.kochloeffel.de |
The Wooden Spoon GmbH is a German food service chain , headquartered in Lingen (Ems) , Lower Saxony . The chain offers grilled chicken, currywurst, various burgers, salads, French fries and soft drinks.
sales
In 2012, according to the company, a total of 3 million half grilled chickens , 6.7 million hamburgers , 1.4 million sausages , 0.4 million servings of lettuce , around 1,000 tons of French fries and 1.4 million liters of drinks were sold.
In 2012, the fast food restaurant counted around 11.5 million guests in around 90 restaurants.
history
The first wooden spoon restaurant was founded in 1961 by Martha van den Berg and her first husband Heinrich Lobenberg in Wilhelmshaven . After he died a few years later, she married Clemens van den Berg from the Netherlands in 1969. He joined the company and ran it together with his wife.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the number of branches increased from 20 to around 120.
In 2010 the youngest daughter Julia joined the company's management team with her husband Torsten Hessler. To this day Kochlöffel is owner-managed by the founding family .
expansion
In Poland, Kochlöffel was represented under the name "conieco." From 1995 to the end of 2015; in Turkey since September 2010 in cooperation with a master's licensee .
Today the company is represented exclusively in Germany with around 90 restaurants.
franchise
The company has been issuing licenses for its fast-food restaurant concept since 1995. A third of all businesses are now run by franchise partners. Kochlöffel is a full member of the German Franchise Association .
Web links
- Official website of the company
- 2004 report on business in 2003 ( memo of November 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) - Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual financial statements of Kochlöffel GmbH, Lingen (Osnabrück District Court, HRB 100005) for the financial year from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017. Published in the Electronic Federal Gazette .
- ↑ Who we are: History. In: kochloeffel.de. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Miss Pressure Cooker In: Manager Magazin , July 1, 2003, accessed December 19, 2017.
- ↑ Kochlöffel relies on business in Turkey In: ahgz.de , 23 August 2011, accessed on 19 December 2017.