Gastvrij De Rooi Pannen Breda

What Gastvrij De Rooi Pannen Breda does

Gastvrij De Rooi Pannen Breda is a hospitality-focused vocational education campus operated by the De Rooi Pannen scholengemeenschap, located in the former Seeligkazerne, a rijksmonument in Breda, Netherlands. Established at this location in March 2019, the campus combines practical training with commercial guest services across a 16-room teaching hotel (Onderwijshotel), three dining venues (fine dining Nicolas Appert, casual dining Pierre Durand, and Brasserie Reduit), conference facilities in the historic Groot Arsenaal and Klein Arsenaal buildings, an on-site tourist office (ToerismeLab), and event catering services. All operations are run by students of the Hospitality and Tourism, Leisure & Marketing programs under faculty supervision, with the educational mandate structured around three pillars: small-scale organization, practice-oriented learning, and entrepreneurial students.

The business model is transaction- and booking-based, with revenue generated from overnight accommodations (€89-139 per night per room tier), restaurant transactions (3-course lunch from €24.50, sharing dishes €5-12), per-person conference packages (€6.50-39), tourism referral commissions via Sunny Cars, and custom F&B event catering. Distribution combines direct walk-in/on-site bookings with online reservations through SmartHotel, ZenChef, and Resengo, plus corporate direct sales for meeting venues and an on-campus TourismLab for travel advisory services. Go-to-market is a hybrid community-led and direct-to-consumer model, where the student-run operation functions simultaneously as a training environment and a publicly accessible hospitality venue serving individual consumers, business/corporate clients, and tourists in the Breda region.

The parent De Rooi Pannen operates vmbo and mbo programs across Tilburg, Eindhoven, and Breda, providing a continuous student pipeline into the Gastvrij Breda facilities. Customer segments are diversified across leisure travelers, local diners, corporate meeting bookers, and event clients, with no reliance on named enterprise anchors. The facility operates Monday through Saturday, is closed during school holidays, and was converted from military barracks through the largest restoration project in both De Rooi Pannen's and the municipality of Breda's history.

Name

Gastvrij De Rooi Pannen Breda

Legal name

De Rooi Pannen

Website

https://gastvrijderooipannenbreda.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Gastvrij De Rooi Pannen Breda is a vocational hospitality training campus in Breda, Netherlands, where De Rooi Pannen students run a 16-room teaching hotel, three restaurants, conference venues, and a tourist office serving the public.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Breda

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Teaching Hotel Accommodation: Revenue from overnight stays in 16 hotel rooms across three room types (Deluxe, Executive, Suite). Students of Hotel Hospitality Management operate all hotel services.
2. Food & Beverage: Revenue from three dining establishments: Fine dining Nicolas Appèrt (3 and 4-course menus), Casual dining Pierre Durand (small sharing dishes €5-12), and Brasserie Reduit (lunch menu). Also includes take-away meals and events catering.
3. Venue Rental & Conference Services: Revenue from renting multifunctional meeting rooms and conference facilities in Groot Arsenaal (Hospitality department) and Klein Arsenaal (Tourism & Leisure department). Includes various meeting arrangements with catering options.
4. Tourism & Leisure Services: Revenue from campus tours, city walks through Breda, car rental referrals via Sunny Cars partnership, and travel advisory services at the ToerismeLab tourist office.
5. Event Catering: Custom food and beverage events organized by students of Manager Party-, Event- en Businesscatering course for external clients including company openings, farewell receptions, staff parties, and congresses.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Gastvrij De Rooi Pannen Breda operates a teaching hotel (16 rooms), three student-run restaurants (fine dining Nicolas Appèrt, casual dining Pierre Durand, brasserie Reduit), two conference and meeting venues (Groot Arsenaal and Klein Arsenaal), a tourist office (ToerismeLab), guided campus and city tours, and event catering. All services are delivered by students of De Rooi Pannen vocational college as practical training and are open to the general public. The campus is housed in the historic former Seeligkazerne, a rijksmonument in Breda.

Product overview

Gastvrij De Rooi Pannen Breda is a hospitality-focused educational institution operating from the former Seelig Barracks, combining practical training with commercial visitor services. The offering is a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on a Teaching Hotel (16 rooms, 3 types) and multiple dining venues (Pierre Durand casual dining, Nicolas Appèrt fine dining, Brasserie Reduit). These core hospitality services are supplemented by conference/meeting facilities in the Groot Arsenaal and Klein Arsenaal buildings. A complementary leisure and travel segment includes the ToerismeLab tourist office, day trip arrangements (Van Gogh cycling), campus and city walking tours, custom F&B event catering, and Sunny Cars car rental booking assistance. All services are operated by students as part of their vocational education, making this fundamentally a teaching environment that also serves commercial guests.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Onderwijshotel: Teaching Hotel - 16-room hotel operated by hospitality students featuring Deluxe, Executive, and Suite rooms with Auping beds
• Pierre Durand
• Nicolas Appèrt
• Brasserie Reduit
• ToerismeLab
• Groot Arsenaal
• Klein Arsenaal

Products and services

• Onderwijshotel (Teaching Hotel) A 16-room teaching hotel offering Deluxe (€69–€89/night), Executive (€89–€109/night), and Suite (€129–€139/night) rooms, located in the former Seelig Barracks. Operated entirely by students of the Hotel Hospitality program under staff supervision; breakfast buffet available at €11.50–€14.50 per person.
• Restaurant Nicolas Appèrt (Fine Dining) A fine dining restaurant offering surprise menus: 3-course lunch (€18.50–€24.50 per person) and 4-course dinner (€22.50–€29.50 per person), prepared and served by hospitality students. Wine pairing recommendations available.
• Restaurant Pierre Durand (Casual Dining) A casual dining restaurant with an open kitchen where students prepare changing concepts and small sharing dishes priced between €5 and €12 per dish. Concept inspired by Pierre Durand, who patented food preservation in tin.
• Brasserie Reduit A brasserie offering lunch service (12:00–13:30) and weekly take-away meals, operated by Leisure department students. Serves sandwiches, warm lunch dishes, coffee, and tea. Take-away orders placed Mon/Wed by 12:00 for next-day pickup.
• Groot Arsenaal Conference Facilities Multi-functional conference and meeting rooms operated by the Hospitality department: 3 rooms (Jooost/Kuijpers zaal, Remmers zaal, Kroonwerk zaal) with 3D-touch smartboards and capacities from 6 to 80 persons. Meeting arrangements from 2 to 8 hours at €6.50–€39 per person.
• Klein Arsenaal Conference Facilities Conference and meeting facilities operated by the Tourism & Leisure department: 2 ground-floor meeting rooms (Zaal 01, Zaal 02, joinable via sliding wall) and a 190-person theatre room on the first floor. 4-hour and 8-hour banqueting arrangements from €9.50 to €29.50 per person, with optional lunch add-on.
• ToerismeLab (Tourist Office) A tourist information office operated by Travel & Hospitality students. Provides holiday advice, custom information guides, excursion tips, and car rental assistance through the Sunny Cars partnership, including all-inclusive rentals with insurance and unlimited kilometers.
• Campus Tours (Rondleiding Schoolcampus) Guided tours of the Seelig Barracks campus conducted by Tourism & Marketing students. Covers Groot Arsenaal, Klein Arsenaal, historic military buildings, and the former hay and oats warehouse. Cost: €4.50 per person, 30-minute duration.
• City Walk Breda (Stadswandeling) Guided city walks through historic Breda covering Seelig Barracks, Spanjaardsgat, Grote Kerk, Grote Markt, Castle of Breda, Valkenbergpark, and Begijnhof. Cost: €5 (Dutch) or €7.50 (English) per person, 1.5–2 hours duration.
• Events & Catering (F&B Events) Custom food and beverage event services organized by Manager Party, Event and Business Catering students. Services include company openings, farewell receptions, staff parties, and congress catering at external locations. Equipment includes a refrigerated van and mobile combi steamers.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• ONCE (Officieel Netwerk Catering Events)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerDe Rooi Pannen hospitality department is a collaborating partner at ONCE (Official Network Catering Events). This partnership connects the school with a network of catering event professionals.
• Sunny CarsminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTourismLab serves as a car rental referral partner for Sunny Cars. Students help customers find and book all-inclusive rental cars for holiday destinations, including insurance coverage and unlimited kilometers.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• ROC Tilburg / ROC West-Brabant: Dutch regional vocational colleges offering mbo hospitality and tourism programs. Comparable in mbo-level hospitality training and proximity to De Rooi Pannen in Tilburg; however, not centered on a single integrated hospitality campus.

Direct peers

• Hotelschool The Hague: Leading Dutch hotel management school operating a real teaching hotel and training restaurants in The Hague. Highly comparable to Gastvrij Breda as a vocational hospitality institution that runs commercial hotel and F&B outlets staffed by students.
• Hotel Management School Maastricht (Zuyd): Dutch applied sciences hotel school that combines classroom learning with practical hospitality operations. Comparable educational model with student-operated F&B and lodging services.
• Ter Groene Poorte (Hotel- en Toerismeschool): Belgian vocational school (Broodjesberg/Bruges) running a teaching hotel and student-operated restaurants. Directly comparable mbo hospitality training model with on-site commercial operations.
• École hôtelière de Lausanne: Premier Swiss hotel school operating training restaurants and teaching facilities on campus. Comparable in fusing top-tier hospitality education with real-world commercial guest experiences.
• Les Roches International School of Hotel Management: Swiss-based international hotel school with on-campus teaching hotel and F&B operations run by students. Comparable integrated hospitality-education commercial model.
• NHL Stenden Hotelschool Groningen: Dutch applied sciences hotel school with a teaching hotel and student-operated outlets. Similar educational-plus-commercial hospitality positioning to Gastvrij Breda.

Emerging players

• École Ducasse - Paris Campus: Culinary and hospitality school with applied training restaurants. Strong overlap on the F&B/culinary education side, though more specialized in gastronomy than full-service hotel operations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/derooipannen.nl
• Instagraminstagram.com/derooipannen.horeca.breda
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gastvrij-de-rooi-pannen-breda

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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