Pop up restaurant

Pop-up restaurant in Belgium

A pop-up restaurant is a temporary restaurant, for example to test a culinary concept or as an alternative accommodation when a restaurant is temporarily closed.

description

Pop-up restaurants have been popular in the UK and Australia since the 2000s but are not a new phenomenon. Guests use social media to make online reservations.

Pop-up restaurants are often a means for young professionals to learn their hospitality skills when looking for investors or attention after opening a restaurant or culinary concept. Pop-up restaurants are also used by up-and-coming chefs, as they allow underutilized kitchens to be used and "to experiment without the risk of bankruptcy".

Instead of reservations, tickets are also sold online.

Examples

The following chefs and restaurateurs have opened pop-up restaurants:

• Grant Achatz
• Thomas Keller
• Robert Rädel
• René Redzepi
• Lauren Wildbolz

See also

• Pop up sale

Web links

• New trend: Unternehmerhandbuch.de: Pop-up restaurants
• Food Trend Predictions For 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} nytimes.com: At Pop-Ups, Chefs Take Chances With Little Risk
2. ↑ papers.ssrn.com: Unpermitted Urban Agriculture: Transgressive Actions, Changing Norms, and the Local Food Movement
3. ↑ thundertix.com: New Trend: Pop-up Restaurants Selling Tickets
4. ↑ gastroeconomy.com: Grant Achatz's 'Pop-Up' in Madrid: A Guide in 10 Points
5. ↑ sonomamag.com: French Laundry'a Thomas Keller opens ad Lib Pop-Up
6. ↑ noma.dk: Noma Mexico Booking Process ( Memento of July 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive )