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The Gastgeberkreis is an association of gastronomy and gastronomic enterprises which has set itself the goal of sharpening the perception of gastronomy in politics and society. SODA GROUP supports the host group strategically and conceptually.

A statement by Professor Dr. Torsten Olderog, spokesman of the host circle. The initiative Gastgeberkreis is an association of about 50 top restaurateurs and gastronomy companies, which acts as a new mouthpiece for endangered businesses. SODA Group supports the host group on a conceptual and strategic level. A movie!

For the first time, the winter workshop of the German Institute for Community Catering (62 of the largest company-owned community caterers in D) took place digitally this year: via streaming from the TV studio of R+V Versicherungen in Wiesbaden.

Markus Tust, managing partner of the SODA GROUP, brought the varied programme of lectures to an impulsive close. The core message of his lecture on the customer journey in community catering: In future, looking after and caring for the guest, especially before and after a visit, should be considered a natural and essential part of any concept. For reporting in gv-praxis

We’re working flat out! Dr. Oetker is entering the out-of-home market in spring 2021 with its own coffee house concept. SODA GROUP is involved from the very beginning: basic concept, corporate identity & corporate design, interior design, planning & implementation, assortment & communication. More on this later – we look forward to it!

The first TYPY store has opened: the digital supermarket in Düsseldorf’s Medienhafen. SODA GROUP is responsible for the entire brand experience: brand development, interior design, brand communication as well as planning and implementation.

A Global Business Village with a mix of office buildings, hotels and restaurants is being built on the approximately 25-hectare Gateway Gardens site in the Airport City Frankfurt am Main by 2026. Siemens Real Estate is developing two office buildings here, partly for its own use but also for external tenants. SODA GROUP has been commissioned with the gastronomy concept and the interior design of the Entrée/First Hospitality touchpoint as well as the restaurant in Building A and is thus decisively responsible for the structure of the ground floor situation. In planning is a day bar, a guest room with approx. 300 seats and a multifunctional counter with finishing kitchen.

Photocredit: Siemens Real Estate

We identified and discussed the impact of the crisis on the gastronomy industry and what will subsequently emerge from it for the orientation and management of gastronomic companies with a heterogeneous group of industry experts and decision-makers from leading companies. The magazine format – WEATHER REPORT – was created …

The new imposing headquarters of Seeberger GmbH in Ulm is to be launched before the end of this year. During the planning and development of the new office building including staff catering, the Competence Center with show kitchen as well as the Seeberger world of experience for guests and customers, we were able to contribute our versatile competence in consulting, kitchen planning and interior design. We are looking forward to the opening. More on this soon.

With the opening of the first hotels in Copenhagen in 2021 (Old Town) and 2024 (Christiansholm), the design hotel chain is now expanding to Denmark. SODA GROUP has been working successfully with 25hours for many years and has already been entrusted, for example, with the kitchen planning and implementation in the Bikini Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Zurich and Florence. True to the motto “If you know one, you know none.” we are now looking forward to a new exciting collaboration in Scandinavia.

For its first property in the Old Town, a venerable university building, the hotel chain is bringing three established concepts to Denmark: a NENI restaurant, the Boilerman Bar and, for the first time at 25h, a bakery café by Melissa Forti. Our task is to integrate the back-of-house areas in terms of planning.

Based on the proven software flotify, the new app UNLOCK is created for the secure and verifiable implementation of current behavioral guidelines within the framework of Covid-19. SODA GROUP is responsible for the strategy development as well as corporate identity and design.

For the second year running, the Canteen Test Germany, a cooperation between Food &Health e.V. and FOCUS magazine, is awarding prizes for outstanding performance in community catering. We are proud of the fact that a large number of test winners have relied on the cooperation with SODA GROUP for concept development, catering planning and design.

By 2023, the W&W campus will offer a total of 4,000 employees a common place to work. The new company headquarters in Kornwestheim stands for a culture of innovation – faster, more flexible, more digital and more networked. In cooperation with Ortner & Ortner Baukunst, SODA GROUP is responsible for the kitchen planning and design of the gastronomic units. Construction management has already begun.

Digital solutions for the catering industry.
The search for creative ideas for everyday work in the foodservice industry was the focus of the first Gastro Hackathon in Salzburg 2020. SODA GROUP supported the event with coaching and industry knowledge.