Data beats guesswork: The 2026 Kitchen Barometer

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Companies are wringing their hands for qualified personnel: Study shows ways out of the shortage of skilled workers

Gastronomy remains under pressure. Staff shortages and reduced opening hours are an everyday reality. The Kitchen Barometer 2026 shows strategies to…

Barbara Seemann

Guidelines for open kitchens: What to watch out for in front cooking

The trend towards front-of-house cooking is going strong... and not just in fine dining. More and more businesses are showing their stuff in every…

Ceremonia de entrega de premios en el restaurante de la empresa RATIONAL.

GreenCanteen seal: How sustainable company catering works

It's been true in Landsberg am Lech for years, but receiving the GreenCanteen seal makes it official: Rational's head office is a model of how…

Kitchen Heroes

Truffle dealer Luca Miliffi: Ahead by a nose

At this year's annual truffle auction in the Northern Italian city of Alba, three white truffles sold for €110,000. What makes these high-end mushrooms some of the world's priciest delicacies? Truffle Pope Luca Miliffi explains the magic of white truffles, typical kitchen mistakes, and why truffle risotto was so popular in the 80s.

Kim Kopacka

The 20 Best Chefs of Instagram in 2025

The year 2025 has put fresh wind in the sails of Instagram's culinary accounts, with Michelin-starred chefs, kitchen newbies, pastry wizards, and…

Katarina Andraschko

Propietario de Ajo Base en un campo de ajos con ajos frescos en una cesta.

How Ajo Base is revolutionizing Tokyo’s dining culture through garlic

Ajo Base in Tokyo isn't just a restaurant; it’s also a cafe and a food lab. Everything here revolves around that pungent miracle bulb... which is…

Lucas Palm

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Sniffing out trends with The Duc Ngo

The Duc Ngo, who came to Germany as a child refugee, has relied on his sense of trends to build a gastronomic empire whose fame reaches well beyond…

Tobias Fels

Digitalization & Technology

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Digitalization of the gastronomy sector: What can it do and how much does it take?

The digitalization of the food service industry is in full swing – with countless gastronomy software, cloud-based kitchen appliances, smart scales and QR codes. But what does this really mean for digitalization of the hospitality industry? And how much digitalization can the gastronomy industry handle?

Lucas Palm

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Artificial Intelligence – Potential and challenges in the professional kitchen
Alexandra Gorsche

Is the might of artificial intelligence also bringing a revolution to the hospitality industry?
Alexandra Gorsche

How artificial intelligence reduces food waste in the foodservice industry
Lucas Palm

Der Gastronom überprüft mithilfe des HACCP-Managments seine Küchenabläufe.

Hygiene with added value: What is HACCP and how is it best implemented?

For many, HACCP sounds like something of a nuisance – but the new technological achievements in particular show that The hygiene concept, which has…

Lucas Palm

Rational presenta su nueva e innovadora categoría de productos iHexagon

KTCHNREBEL Editorial Team

The microwave re-invented: See what the new iHexagon from RATIONAL can do

In the KTCHNrebel interview, the Executive Board Member for Marketing and Sales and the RATIONAL Head of Development discuss the challenge of…

Flippy is not a traditional employee, it just has a long, wiry arm. But one that, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), knows exactly when to take fries or chicken meat out of the directly connected freezer compartment, at how many degrees they should be put in the deep fryer for how many minutes - and when to take them out again.

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Automated restaurants: Will robots take over the kitchen now?

Employees shortages are everywhere, while robots are becoming ever more efficient and cost-effective. This trend is not only evident in industry,…

Lucas Palm

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Kitchen Barometer 2026

This study analyzes the structural transformation of professional kitchens and highlights how businesses worldwide are responding to mounting pressure, changing expectations, and technological advancements.

«Típica» comida americana como hamburguesas, patatas fritas & co. con banderas americanas.

Food Trends

Global flavors, regional ingredients, crunchy bugs: the most important food trends in the US

How do architects help identify food trends? Why is Asian food all the rage in America? Are sustainability and climate change impacting US menus?…

Kim Kopacka

Food Trends

Organic Garden

Rethinking the food cycle with Organic Garden. From the farm to the plate, everything from a single source – that's how you could sum up Organic…

Alexandra Gorsche - Falstaff Profi

Alamesa - el restaurante para la inclusión desde el exterior.

Inclusion in gastronomy: Alamesa as a flagship project

Genuine inclusion of people with disabilities is unfortunately still often only a pipe dream in our society: From school to training and the world of…

Data beats guesswork: The 2026 Kitchen Barometer

Food Trends

Plato combinado: patatas, pulpo y verduras.

Food Trends

Food Trends 2026: What will be on our plates this year?

The year 2026 will mean more colorful plates, more functional dishes, more flexible people. Gastronomy expert Pierre Nierhaus and the Food Campus Berlin team explain how our eating habits are changing, which 2026 food trends will dominate, and how restaurateurs can put those trends into practice.

Kim Kopacka

Gastro Trends 2025: Keys to the industry’s continued success

With all the recent talk of a “food service crisis," the question arises: which defining 2025 gastro trends will the hospitality industry need to…

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Food Trends

The food trends of the 2000s: Food for health, soul and planet

How TV shows, catastrophic events and a call for public spaghetti meals changed our eating habits: These are the most important food trends of the…

Kim Kopacka

Food Trends

These are the Food Trends of the 90s

Beeps and scratchy whirrs when trying to get on the Internet. Furby robotic toys, squawking for food. Guitars blaring out of every other garage.…

Kim Kopacka

Business & Growth

Cuñas de patata con sal en un tablón negro

Exposed: the final potato secrets!

They're one of the world's most important foodstuffs and most widely cultivated crops. But potatoes are more than “just” food. There's more to them than meets the "eye." Get ready to dig up a few final potato secrets...

Michi Reichelt