GERMANY. Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport has awarded its latest dining contracts to travel restaurateur SSP and to Berlin-based beets&roots following a tender. The units, located in Terminal 1, include three restaurants and a coffee shop, and will open from May 2023. The total space occupied by the new F&B options is around 800sq m.
Under SSP management, Starbucks and Burger King will open in the mezzanine airside food court. The Burger King unit will span 329sq m and seat 125 customers, while the Starbucks coffee shop will occupy around 104sq m, seating 28. An additional Burger King restaurant with a 285sq m footprint and seating for 126 diners will open landside.
In a departure from its traditional styling, the new Starbucks will reflect the urban atmosphere of Berlin. The Burger King restaurants will offer passengers an extensive range of plant-based products. Alongside its classic menu, the outlet will serve items including the V-Label licensed vegan options, plant-based Nuggets, plant-based Long Chicken and plant-based Nugget Burger, with a strong focus on taste irrespective of the protein source.
Both brands will feature digital elements, including digital menu boards that change according to the time of day. At Burger King, customers can use self-ordering technology with 12 self-ordering terminals available airside and another ten landside.
Healthy fast casual food concept beets&roots was founded in Berlin in 2016. The company now operates ten restaurants in five major German cities. Its unit will also be located in the T1 food court, making it the first beets&roots at an airport.
Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg CEO Aletta von Massenbach said: “We are very pleased to welcome both SSP, a strong international food & beverage provider, and beets&roots, an innovative company from the region, to our airport next year. The food & beverage concepts offered by both companies complement the existing range very well. At the same time, we can fulfil the wishes of many passengers for a wider choice.”
SSP Continental Europe CEO Jeremy Fennell said: “SSP already has an established business in Berlin, with operations in motorway services and Berlin rail including at Berlin Central Station, Berlin Zoo, Berlin Ostbahnhof and Friedrichstrasse. Winning this new contract at Berlin Airport Brandenburg Willy Brandt is an excellent next step, building on this success as we continue to serve the Berlin travelling consumer.”
Oliver Haub and Wenzel Bürger, Managing Directors of SSP DACH, added: “At Berlin Airport, SSP is convinced that we are capturing the zeitgeist of the city with the staging of our two Burger King restaurants and Starbucks coffee store. We are very much looking forward to our new partnership with Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH.”
Maximilian Kochen, Managing Director of beets&roots, said: “As a young company founded in Berlin, it’s really special for us to launch our first store at an airport directly at the new BER in the heart of the capital region. We not only offer our customers healthy, freshly prepared food of the highest quality, but as a company we also embody the open and global zeitgeist of our home city. This is what our international team and range of globally inspired dishes stand for.”
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