What is the concept?

We’ve designed a full day event in Dublin to help you make new strides in food to go. Our Retail Expert Summit is all about bringing together best in class case studies, showcasing best in class stores, and helping to provide better frameworks for long term food to go growth. You will hear from some of Europe’s best food to go retailers, and learn more about the shape of the future market opportunity. There will also be great networking, and a chance to experience a best in class food to go in retail market.

What’s in for you?
  • Learn about the latest trends & opportunities for food to go & foodservice in retail
  • Make new connections with the industry leaders from all over Europe
  • Experience great food to go and retail concepts in this benchmark city
  • Be inspired by presentations of food to go success stories
  • Explore how to inspire customers and implement food-to-go with RATIONAL

The number of participants is limited to 50 persons - You will receive a certificate of participation after your registration.

Food-to-go best practice.
We will start the day with an inspiring panel discussion, giving you ideas of how the future in food- to go will look like.

The retail safari.
Some of best food-to-go retailers in Europe can be found in Dublin. We will do a guided tour, visiting the shiny examples of food-to-go concepts.

Your take aways.
The forum is all about strengthening the future opportunity for food-to-go in retail. You’ll build new connections with like-minded businesses and gain new insights into how to develop your proposition to attract new customers and target new missions.

Where & When

Full day event including dinner.

Date: Wednesday, November 17th 2021
Start time: 09:00 am

Location: Guinness Storehouse
St. James's Gate, Dublin 8, D08 VF8H,
Ireland

Accommodation

A sufficient number of rooms are optional blooked at the Aloft Hotel.
The costs for overnight stay as well as travel to and from the hotel will be borne by the participants.

Our Speakers.

Gavin Rothwell

Food Future Insights founder

Gavin has over 15 years' experience analysing and consulting into the food retail and food-to-go sector, which he's most recently combined with leading food-to-go and retail safaris across a host of European and North American cities.

Scott Annan

Blue Ananta / Consulting

Scott is a Food and Convenience retail industry guru and a pathfinder. Based in the UK and Irish marketplaces, with a global reach in hosting peer-to-peer exchange events. He maintains regular connections with C-level heads within retail forums, challenging thinking and sharing insight and knowledge.

Thomas Ennis

CEO Thomas Ennis Group / Owner at Spar, Maxol, FüDI Delis

When Dublin retailer Thomas Ennis started out in 2005, he started with a vision to have the best fresh food and drink in the market. Working with Spar, he now runs 12 city centre and forecourt stores. At the Retail Summit he will give insights into his main topic: how to make more business with fresh food, food to go and quality.

Mike Fogarty

CEO and Founder at Choice

Mike is an innovative food and beverage executive who has leveraged over a decade of strategy and operations experience to launch and grow Choice Market. Choice is a progressive omnichannel retailer that combines high quality groceries and prepared foods from local vendors with a leading-edge digital customer experience. Prior to Choice, Mike served as Senior Category Manager at Danone. He and his team were responsible for the sourcing, contracting, cost reduction and supplier performance activities for all plastic packaging in North America. Mike also supported the Horizon Organic and Silk brands with new product innovation and commercialization.

Marijke Streng

Lead Foodservice Albert Heijn

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups, a leader in both supermarkets and eCommerce and a company at the forefront of sustainable retailing. Our family of great local brands provides an omnichannel offering to more than 54 million customers each week in Europe, the United States and Indonesia. Our brands operate more than 6,700 grocery and specialty stores as well as online delivery and pickup. Together, we help people eat well, save time and live better.

Bernhard Heiden

CSO & Creative Director Interstore | Schweitzer

Experienced Creative Director with a demonstrated history of 35 years in the Retail Industry. Expert in Store Design & Planning, Concept Development, Branding, Visual Merchandising. Member of various clients' think tanks and estimated thought leader. Consultancies on a worldwide scale.

Nathan Watts

Creative Director at Interstore | Schweitzer

Creative Director for a European based retail design agency, famous for creating & realising stunning, effective & commercially successful retail concepts for clients all over the world. Modern retail is the meeting point between commerce and culture: a reflection of the ever-changing shifts in society, consumerism and technology. As a retail designer one must be laser focussed on the clients commercial objectives & approach the task with a curious mind, interrogate the wider implications of the brief & unearth the relevant cultural and consumer trends to drive the solution.

About us.

RATIONAL AG

Rational logo with red text and blue border.

The RATIONAL Group is the world market and technology leader in the field of hot food preparation for professional kitchens. Founded in 1973, the company employs more than 1,300 people in Germany and a total of around 2,300 worldwide.

The primary objective of the company is to always offer its customers maximum benefits. Internally RATIONAL is committed to the principle of sustainability, expressed in its policies on environmental protection, leadership and social responsibility. Year after year, numerous international awards testify to the exceptional quality of RATIONAL’s work.

Our media partner.

KTCHNrebel

KTCHN Rebel logo in black text on white background.

KTCHNrebel is an international online magazine for food service professional that want to make a difference.

It’s all about ideas, innovations, and trends happening in our loud, messy, fabulous kitchen lives. We profile role models, discuss current issues, and look to the future. KTCHNrebel is aimed at everyone who pours their heart and soul into their kitchen, serves up pop culture and is greedy for something new. Publishers KTCHNrebel and RATIONAL AG love anyone who reads, likes and shares. And: Let us know your opinion. Only then can we strike a chord with you.

Proud winner of the Digital Communication Awards 2019 and Deutsche Preis für Onlinekommunikation 2019 (silver).