Michael Möhring
möhrings foodservice-kompetenz
Lindenweg 18
56323 Waldesch
Germany

ErfaFoodService supports its participants

• market insight

• Solving challenges

• Decision maker meetings

• Benefit of expert knowledge

• Implementing Best Practices

It specifically promotes the exchange of experience among the movers and shakers in the catering and industry at eye level, practical, topic-oriented, stimulating and trend-setting.

We bring together colleagues - in the sense of best practice transfer - who have already solved their problem and help with questions about new products, concepts and general conditions.

– Michael Möhring

JunE 2004

Foundation of ERFA Gastronomie in amusement parks; kick-off meeting was on the island of Mainau.

Conceived as a rather private project for the exchange of experiences of the participants, this network developed into a constant in the market and appointment calendar. Whether Heidepark Soltau, Freizeitpark Rust or Nürburgring, whether Hamburg, Munich or Haßloch - Michael Möhring has been organising varied meetings at the who-is-who of the industry for years.

The focus is always on the exchange with top experts and successful market participants as well as informative tours and sufficient time for networking among each other.

Based on the needs of the network participants, we develop interesting and practice-oriented expert discussions, experience exchange meetings, workshops, and seminars, which are conducted by competent experts.

– Michael Möhring

FebruarY 2014

Building on this experience, Michael Möhring and Thomas Drick founded the ERFA Foodservice Product Development network. Kick-off was the "product developer breakfast" at INTERGASTRA in Stuttgart.

Makers from the catering trade and industry meet here at eye level. The meetings, workshops and lectures are practice-oriented, impulse-giving and theme-oriented.

The events serve the constructive exchange of experience between those responsible for product development (menu, menu, assortment) from the catering industry and those responsible for operations from the industry. The focus is on the goal of a demand-oriented and successful product development.

ErfaFoodService offers, among other things, the possibility of bringing you together with absolutely specialised manufacturers, suppliers, potential customers and service providers on request, which is particularly needed when creating, specialising or optimising existing catering concepts.

– Michael Möhring

entered cooperations

• Party Service Bund e.V., Bremen

• Arbeitskreis Gemeinschaftsverpflegung Köln e.V.

• DGHV Deutscher Gastro & Hotelverbund GmbH, Dortmund

• CDH Mitte e.V. / Wirtschaftsverband für Handelsvermittlung und Vertrieb Hessen,

• Thüringen und Rheinland-Pfalz, Frankfurt

• DHA / Deutsche Hotelakademie, Köln

• Hochschule Albstadt-Sigmaringen, Fakultät Life Sciences

• Netzwerk Plasma4Food im Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB)

• Food-Processing Initiative e.V., Bielefeld

• Albert Schweitzer Stiftung​ e.V.​, Berlin

• CSE „Center for Service Excellence“, Koblenz

• ZLV „Zentrum für Lebensmittel- und Verpackungstechnologie“, Kempten

SCAE German Chapter e.V. (SCAE Deutschland)
Manzostraße 32
80997 München
Germany

On 1st January 2017, the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), founded in 1982, and the Speciality Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE), founded in 1998, officially became one organization – SCA Deutschland.

International exchange on a national level - that is what distinguishes the individual foreign divisions of SCA. In addition to the association's headquarters near London, SCA's work is shaped by more than 30 other branch offices in Europe and Asia, including the German division. With its own board of directors, consisting of experienced coffee experts, the team accompanies and organizes topics such as training, meetings of regional groups and events in Germany.

A special highlight is the German Coffee Championships organised annually by the German SCA. These are the German Coffee Championships, where coffee experts can compete in seven disciplines. The German championships are sought in the areas of barista, latte art, roasting, brewing, cupping, coffee in good spirit and Chezve/Ibrik. The respective winners will have the honour of representing Germany at the World Championships and will thus have the chance to compete for the biggest title at international level.

The championships, both national and international, are appreciated by both participants and visitors not only because of the event character. The events bring together important groups of people from the entire coffee industry and thus offer the rare opportunity to make new contacts and maintain old ones in a small space and in a short time.

The maintenance of a successful network for speciality coffees is just as much a priority for SCA Deutschland as the continuous training and further qualification of interested groups of people. The aim is to make speciality coffee even better known in Germany and to professionalise the handling of this fascinating product. From sourcing and roasting to the right milk foam in the cappuccino – the right coffee preparation is a science in itself. This is why SCA is an excellent institution for all those who want to work with coffee in a professional manner.

Bundesverband der Deutschen Vending-Automatenwirtschaft e.V.
Universitätsstraße 5
50937 Köln
Germany

The Bundesverband der Deutschen Vending-Automatenwirtschaft e.V. (BDV) consists of experts in the out-of-home and company catering sector. It is the leading trade association for manufacturers of beverage and food vending machines as well as vending machine service providers ("operators") and food manufacturers active in this sector. The BDV has around 350 members, of which around 200 are independent vending machine service providers, mostly regionally active medium-sized companies. In total, the vending machine service providers belonging to the BDV account for around 2/3 of the entire market.

The BDV is the mouthpiece of its members at national and European level. The association campaigns for the interests of the industry at key points in Berlin and Brussels! Whether practical regulations on packaging and disposal, food labeling, sustainability and energy efficiency or fiscal data readout: the BDV makes its members' voices heard!