FEBO () is a chain of
Dutch walk-up
fast food restaurants of the
automat
An automat is a fast food restaurant where simple foods and drinks are served by vending machines. The world's first automat, Quisisana, opened in Berlin, Germany in 1895.
By country Germany
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type. Founded in 1941 in
Amsterdam, Netherlands, FEBO is most notable for this automatic format: a counter is available for purchasing
French fries
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,
beverages, and
hamburgers. Other FEBO snacks can be bought from the
automat
An automat is a fast food restaurant where simple foods and drinks are served by vending machines. The world's first automat, Quisisana, opened in Berlin, Germany in 1895.
By country Germany
The first automat in the world was the Quisisana ...
s. The primary automat-vended items are
krokets,
frikandellen,
hamburgers,
Kaassoufflés and similar items.
According to the company, FEBO has almost 60 shops all over the
Netherlands, with 54 being
franchises. There are 22 shops in
Amsterdam alone.
The FEBO motto ''De Lekkerste'' (
Dutch, ) is translated as "The Tastiest".
History
FEBO was opened as Maison FEBO by Johan de Borst (1919-2008), named after
Ferdinand Bolstraat, and by 1960 it had grown into an automat restaurant, where homemade krokets and frikandellen were sold. When the bakery moved to Amstelveenseweg, the name FEBO was kept.
From here, new branches were opened both in Amsterdam and further afield, such as
Purmerend,
Hoorn
Hoorn () is a city and municipality in the northwest of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the largest town and the traditional capital of the region of West Friesland. Hoorn is located on the Markermeer, 20 kilometers ( ...
and
Hoofddorp, and this format's popularity grew to levels not seen since 1930s New York.
Johan de Borst's son Hans took over the company in 1990, later followed by his grandson Dennis. The founder died in May 2008.
A new production centre was opened in
Amsterdam-Noord
Amsterdam-Noord (; ) is a borough of Amsterdam, Netherlands with a population of about 90,000. The IJ, the body of water which separates it from Amsterdam-Centrum and the rest of the city, is situated southwest of Amsterdam-Noord. The borough, whi ...
, near the
Coen Tunnel
The Coentunnel (1966) is a tunnel in the A10 motorway under the North Sea Canal in western Amsterdam. The tunnel is named for the 17th-century colonizer Jan Pieterszoon Coen. The tunnel itself is 1283 metres long of which 587 metres are fully ...
, where the snacks are produced and brought to stores immediately after production.
See also
*
Dutch cuisine
*
Quisisana
*
List of hamburger restaurants
References
External links
FEBO websiteImages of products sold at FEBO (most by automat, and some at the counter).
Vending machines provider(Spanish English)
{{Commons category, FEBO
Fast-food hamburger restaurants
Restaurants established in 1941
Restaurant chains in the Netherlands
Restaurants in Amsterdam