About FoodService Europe & Middle East

FoodService Europe & Middle East

FoodService Europe & Middle East is a bi-monthly multinational trade journal for the restaurant and catering industry, published by the dfv Mediengruppe (Deutscher Fachverlag) in Frankfurt am Main. As the international edition of the German food-service magazine, it addresses the decision-makers of the European and Middle Eastern foodservice markets with market analyses, country reports, concept features and interviews – from the sales rankings of national markets to the Middle East section covering the Gulf's hospitality boom. The journal celebrated its 20th anniversary as a trade magazine in 2018 and is complemented by the digital portals foodserviceeurope.com and cafe-future.net.

Overview

FoodService Europe & Middle East is the international voice of the dfv Mediengruppe's foodservice publishing: the bi-monthly English-language journal that carries the German food-service expertise to the restaurant and catering industries of Europe and the Middle East. Each issue combines pan-European market intelligence with regional depth: statistics and the pan-European survey, market analyses of individual countries – Austria, France, Sweden, the Netherlands and others – with sales rankings of the leading players, interviews with the industry's personalities, hot-trend features on concepts and locations, and a dedicated Middle East section.

The market analyses are the journal's signature: country-by-country examinations of the foodservice markets with facts and figures, top-player rankings and professionals' views on market characteristics – the Top 50 foodservice players in the Netherlands, the Top 51 in France, the Top 25 fast-food players in Sweden, the Top 100 chains in the USA. These rankings, built on sales revenues and annotated with expert commentary, provide the industry's benchmark data across borders – the reference that operators, suppliers and investors consult when assessing markets, planning expansions or benchmarking their own performance against the leaders.

The Middle East section addresses the region's hospitality boom: F&B in hotels, event design, take-away concepts and the regional players – from Jumeirah International's foodservice vision in Dubai to the pizza sector's flourishing across the Gulf, where international franchises and ambitious local players compete for the region's young and affluent consumers. This coverage reflects the Middle East's emergence as one of the world's most dynamic foodservice markets, where European operators, suppliers and concepts seek their opportunities and where the journal's readers find some of their most promising growth prospects.

The readership is the international foodservice decision-maker: managing directors, CEOs, directors, general managers, F&B managers and executive chefs of food brands, restaurant chains, institutional caterers, hotel chains and suppliers across Europe and the Middle East. The journal's circulation is documented at 14,000 copies, distributed to the industry's high-potential decision-makers – the executives whose choices shape the menus, the supply chains and the guest experiences of two continents.

History

FoodService Europe & Middle East was launched in the late 1990s – the 20th anniversary of the trade magazine in 2018 points to a founding around 1998 – as the international extension of the dfv Mediengruppe's food-service publishing. The concept was straightforward: the market intelligence and concept journalism that the German food-service magazine had developed for the German-speaking gastronomy deserved a European and Middle Eastern audience, in the English language that the international industry speaks.

Over the following two decades the journal documented the internationalization of the foodservice industry: the expansion of the American chains across Europe, the rise of the European champions – from McDonald's European operations to the homegrown concepts – the coffee-bar boom, the better-burger wave, the delivery revolution, and the emergence of the Gulf states as a hospitality powerhouse. The country rankings traced these developments market by market, year by year.

The digital extension – the portals foodserviceeurope.com and cafe-future.net – carried the brand into daily online coverage, while the print journal maintained its bi-monthly rhythm of in-depth market analysis. The journal's special features – such as the anniversary bouquet of exclusive contributions by renowned guest authors and case studies on inventive concepts – celebrated the milestones with the industry's own voices.

The dfv Mediengruppe's out-of-home media team – spanning gv-praxis, food-service and FoodService Europe & Middle East – developed the brand family into an integrated international publishing program, with the English-language journal as the top-level international title serving the markets beyond the German-speaking core.

Content and Sections

Each bi-monthly issue of FoodService Europe & Middle East is structured around the international industry's information needs. The statistics section opens with Europe by Numbers and the pan-European survey – the quantitative overview of the continent's foodservice markets. The market analyses follow: country reports with facts and figures, sales rankings of the top players, and professionals' views on market characteristics – the deep dives into Austria, France, Sweden, the Netherlands and other markets that form the journal's analytical core.

The hot-trend section visits the industry's most sought-after concepts and locations: wedding locations with distinctive atmospheric settings, event design with creative table-top orchestrations, take-away formulas in profile – the concept journalism that inspires operators across borders. Interviews with the industry's personalities – from Soho House's operations director to the founders of regional champions – provide the personal dimension.

The Middle East section covers the Gulf's foodservice development: F&B in luxury hotels – the afternoon-tea concepts of selected hotels – event design, take-away concepts and the regional market dynamics. The supplier section presents the industry's equipment and service providers, while the show dates keep readers current on the major international trade shows and events.

Special issues and anniversary editions – including the 20th-anniversary special with its bouquet of exclusive contributions – celebrate the milestones with the depth that the journal's readers expect.

Publisher and Organization

FoodService Europe & Middle East is published by the Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH, operating as the dfv Mediengruppe, headquartered at Mainzer Landstrasse 251, 60326 Frankfurt am Main. The journal is the international title of the publisher's out-of-home media family, which also includes the German-language food-service magazine and gvpraxis for professional communal catering.

The journal appears bi-monthly in English, serving the international foodservice industry across Europe and the Middle East. The editorial team operates from the publisher's Frankfurt headquarters, with the contact info@foodserviceeurope.com serving the international readership.

The dfv Mediengruppe is one of Germany's largest specialist publishers, and its foodservice division – with the German, communal-catering and international titles – is the publisher's hospitality stronghold, serving the industry from the local restaurant to the global market.

Digital Presence

The digital home of FoodService Europe & Middle East is split between foodserviceeurope.com and cafe-future.net, the portals that extend the bi-monthly journal into continuous international coverage. The sites publish industry news, market reports and the digital editions of the print journal – the complete digital version of each bi-monthly issue available online.

The digital subscription – foodservice Digital – provides full access to the online contents, all e-paper editions and exclusive online rankings, serving the international readership in the formats they use, from the desktop in the head office to the tablet on the road. The portals' coverage mirrors the journal's structure: European markets, Middle East, concepts, suppliers and events – the international foodservice world's information hub.

With more than a quarter-century of publication history, a bi-monthly rhythm, country rankings that benchmark the industry's markets, a dedicated Middle East section and a daily-updated digital presence, FoodService Europe & Middle East remains the international trade journal of the restaurant and catering industry – the English-language medium that carries the dfv's foodservice expertise from Frankfurt to the industry's decision-makers across Europe, the Middle East and beyond.