Decision-grade research that supports advisory work.
We publish two layers of intelligence. Market-Entry Briefs profile individual chains and operators in DACH and adjacent European markets. Reports — coming Q3 — package proprietary frameworks and datasets for foodservice investors and chain leaders.
63 chain profiles, structured for due diligence.
Per-chain dossiers covering site curve, capital architecture, operations, external forces, and the strategic read for incoming and incumbent operators.
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Coming Q3 2026The latest market-entry reads.
Block House
Block House was founded in Hamburg-Winterhude on 26 September 1968 by Eugen Block and his sister Marlies Head. The concept was a steak restaurant with Argentinian beef, fixed pricing, and a declared quality promise. Fifty-eight years later the Block Gruppe — the holding struct...
Explore brief →Concept Family (Enchilada-Gruppe)
CONCEPT FAMILY Franchise AG — registered at the Amtsgericht München under HRB 276201, formerly Enchilada Franchise AG until the January 2024 rebranding — was founded in Munich in 1990 by Hermann Weiffenbach with the opening of the first Enchilada restaurant. Thirty-five years ...
Explore brief →Maredo
Maredo was not a concept failure. At its 2007 peak the chain operated fifty-eight locations — fifty-five in Germany and three in Austria — recorded approximately ninety-nine million euros in annual revenues, and employed close to seventeen hundred people. The format was the do...
Explore brief →Nordsee
Nordsee was founded in Bremerhaven in 1896. The company was not a restaurant chain at inception — it was a fishing conglomerate, operating high-sea trawlers and forwarding fresh catch to inland markets that had never seen ocean fish. The QSR concept evolved over decades: warm ...
Explore brief →Tank & Rast
Tank & Rast holds operating rights to 412 of 440 German autobahn rest stops — a 93.6-percent market share on a corridor that moves approximately 500 million travellers annually. No competitor can match that footprint. No market entrant can displace it. The federal concession s...
Explore brief →Buffalo Wild Wings
Buffalo Wild Wings is the largest US sports-bar chain by unit count and the only one to have built a nationally scaled format around the combination of chicken wings, tap beer, and live sport on multiple screens simultaneously. It has 1,700+ locations. It has never entered DAC...
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