Snack Bars in The Netherlands

A snack bar in the Netherlands is an eatery where people can mainly buy and consume snacks (for example fries, croquettes, frikandellen). A snack bar where the menu is a bit more extensive and some seats are available is also called a cafeteria, although that word is mainly used to indicate the place in an office or company where employees can buy a drink or a snack, or their packed lunch. can use, whereby the range is less extensive than a full-fledged company restaurant. In Belgium and in the southern parts of the Netherlands, a snack bar is also called a frietkot (chip shop).

Snack Bars in The Netherlands

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The oldest known cafeteria in the Netherlands was located in Utrecht in 1915 in the street Achter Clarenburg. The first automatic system was introduced at Utrecht Central Station in 1932. At that time, fish and chip shops were already a well-known phenomenon in the center of this city. At the time, the first snack bar / cafeteria already sold various types of hot and cold sausage, homemade fries, baked potatoes, dairy products, meatballs, croquettes, frikadilles (predecessor of the frika(n)del), berenklauw (bear’s claw), haché, potato dishes, sweets, popcorn, Dutch dishes, coffee, tea, cola, chocolate milk, tobacco, ice cream and beer. Breakfast and lunch were also provided, which were mainly consumed by workmen while enjoying a cup of coffee or a drink.

Snackbars in den Niederlanden

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At its peak, the Netherlands had approximately 6,000 snack bars and cafeterias. After 1997 the decline started. In 2010, the Netherlands still had more than 4,900 snack bars and cafeterias. This concerns indoor companies; mobile snack bars and stalls with a fixed stand but without seating are not included. In 2017 there were over 4,800, which equates to 2.9 snack bars per 10,000 inhabitants. Compared to 2007, this is a decrease of 4%.
Against this slight decrease in the number of snack bars, the number of branches of fast food chains increased by 11% between 2007 and 2017. There is also a slight increase in trendy organic chip shops. A stronger decrease than the national average occurred in Amsterdam, where the number of snack bars decreased from 263 in 2007 to 212 in 2017, or a decrease of 19.4%. In 2017, most snack bars were located in the province of Limburg, namely 4.7 per 10,000 inhabitants, with the highest snack bar density in the towns of Venlo, Heerlen and Sittard-Geleen.

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Snackbars in Nederland