Block House (restaurant)
Block House is a restaurant chain founded in 1968 in Hamburg, which specializes in steaks. The group was set up by the Hamburg restaurateurs Eugen Block and his sister Marlies Head modeled after American steakhouses.
Company History
The first Block House was opened on 26 September 1968, the location of this restaurant was the Dorotheenstraße in Hamburg. 1972 was followed by the establishment of the company's own butcher's shop and a separate, centrally organized menu production, which in 1994 was moved to Zarrentin am Schaalsee. Owned by the block - group Hotel Elysee in Hamburg- Roth tree was opened in 1986. The original block - restaurant businesses and the hotel in 1992 merged into a public limited company and converted. In 2005, the first Chinese Block House was opened in Beijing. To block group are still other companies, such as the burger chain Jim block and a management school for catering.
Jim Block
The Jim Block brand was created in 1973 out of the need, the need to allocate any remaining meat in the portioning of the steaks, the block -house group. The patties for the burgers are made in the same butcher who also supplies the block -house restaurants with meat. In the early years, however, this approach was not successful, there was a restaurant closures and operating losses.
The range of Jim Block restaurants includes (as 20xx ) Eleven different types of burgers; A special feature is the preparation of the burger before the guests. The price level is higher than other burger chains, an average ticket in 2010 was 8.20 euros. The total turnover of Jim Block was 10 million euros in the same year. In Hamburg there are seven Jim Block restaurants. The opening of additional restaurants outside of Hamburg is planned - by 2018 there will be a total of 30 restaurants. The first restaurant outside of Hamburg was opened in June 2012 in Hanover. Another restaurant in Berlin in April 2014 to open Zoological Garden in Bikini house next to the Zoo-Palast near the train station.
Company Key
Total operates Block House 42 restaurants across Europe, 35 of them in Germany. Abroad, there are restaurants in Lisbon, Madrid, Basel, Marbella, Malaga and Palma de Mallorca. 2011, the seventh Block House was opened in Berlin. It is intended to have opened 50 restaurants in 2018 to the company's 50th anniversary year. An average ticket is 18 euros. The highest grossing Block House in Berlin is the branch at Alexanderplatz; In 2010, sales amounted to 3.5 million euros net there, on average, the group was a restaurant in 2010 to EUR 2.7 million.
The restaurants abroad are only franchise stores, which are managed by the Block House Franchise GmbH. Sales of the block group as a whole amounted to 2010 248 million euros, the company has over 1950 employees (as of December 2011). The corporate group consists of three public companies and 16 companies, which are managed as a limited company.