Kuffler group
| Roland Kuffler GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | around 1960 |
| Seat | Munich , Germany |
| management | Stephan Kuffler, Sebastian Kuffler |
| Number of employees | 1,500 |
| sales | EUR 123 million |
| Branch | Gastronomy, catering and hotel business |
| Website | kuffler.de |
| Status: 2018 | |
The Kuffler Group is a Munich-based company in the areas of gastronomy, catering and hotel business. It employs around 1,400 people (2018) at its three locations in Frankfurt, Munich and Wiesbaden and generated total sales of around 123 million euros in 2018.
With almost 40 restaurants in Germany - around two thirds of which are self-managed - Kuffler is once again in second place in the annual industry ranking of the food service journal for full-service system catering .
history
Roland Kuffler (born November 15, 1937) began studying languages in Heidelberg in the late 1950s . When he noticed that the foreign students lacked a place to celebrate, he opened a club with fellow students. In Heidelberg he met Erich Kaub shortly afterwards, with whom he opened the student bars Tangente , Tangente Jour and the cabaret ironing board , and later the Café Journal . The two young entrepreneurs founded more bars in university towns all over Germany.
In the 1970s, Kaub and Kuffler moved their company headquarters to Munich. There they turned increasingly to classical food gastronomy; several Wurstkuchl businesses were taken over. In the 1980s, other restaurants were added with the Haxnbauer , the Spatenhaus and the Seehaus , and in 1985 Kufflers Weinzelt Weinzelt at the Oktoberfest.
Kaub and Kuffler separated in the 90s. Roland Kuffler entered into new partnerships in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. a. with Gerd Käfer, and in Munich with Joseph Peter, with whom he opened the Thai restaurant Mangostin .
In February 2002, Kufflers acquired the Hotel Palace Munich, which they then completely redesigned with high investments and enlarged by an extension in 2017/2018.
At the end of 2016, Roland Kuffler retired from operational business. His sons Stephan and Sebastian Kuffler have been running the business alone since then. Stephan Kuffler completed an apprenticeship in hotel management and a short course at Cornell University before he joined the company in 1992 and became managing director in 1999. Sebastian Kuffler, nine years younger, first completed his studies at the TU Weihenstephan , joined the family business as operations manager in 2008 and has also been managing director since 2016.
gastronomy
Munich
- Hotel Munich Palace
- Kuffler Inn design
- Kuffler's wine tent
- Bagutta Pizza Culture
- Haxnbauer in the Scholastikahaus
- Mangostin Asia restaurants
- Mangostin Airport
- Seehaus in the English Garden
- Spatenhaus at the opera
- Kuffler Catering Munich
Old Opera Frankfurt
- Cafe Rosso
- Opéra restaurant
- Kuffler Catering Frankfurt
airport Frankfurt
- Cosi Asians
- Deli bros
- Goethe Bar
- Käfer's Bistro Airport
- Kuffler & Bucher Airport
- mini-bar
- tangent
- VIP lounge
Kurhaus Wiesbaden
- Joker'S
- K1 bar
- Lambertus
- Kuffler Catering Wiesbaden
RheinMain CongressCenter
- Kuffler Congress Catering
- Bagutta Pizza Culture
Rheingau
- Schlossschänke on the Johannisberg
- Kuffler Catering Wiesbaden / Johannisberg
Awards
- 2005: Award " Bavaria's best 50 "
- 2007: Award in gold in the "Bavarian Kitchen" competition of the Bavarian State Ministry for Agriculture for the Spatenhaus at the Opera
- 2011: Hamburger foodservice award for Roland Kuffler's lifetime achievement
- 2015: “Gastronom of the year” for Roland Kuffler from Busche Verlagsgesellschaft
- 2018: "Caterer of the Year" Rolling Pin Award to Stephan Kuffler
- 2018: "Caterer of the Year" special award from Cooking + Catering Inside to Stephan Kuffler for the Kuffler Catering Summer Roadshow
Social Commitment
Kufflers support the brotzeit e. V. and Horizont e. V. , the Schörghuber Foundation for Munich Children, the Maltese Children and Youth Hospice Service.
The Kuffler Group also supports the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and is a member of the Society for the Promotion of the Munich Opera Festival.
Stephan Kuffler is also personally committed to the Malteser Children's and Youth Hospice Service and is one of the three chairmen of the Münchner Sicherheitsforum e. V.