Best Food Service Chains Companies in Denmark
The 49 best Food Service Chains companies in Denmark in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Joe & The Juice.
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Our analysis of 50 Food Service Chains companies
$8.5b in tracked funding; 90% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Food Service Chains companies in Denmark
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joe & The Juice Retail chain for juice bars | $322M | 3 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2002 | StoryblokCart FunctionalitySentry+27 | 1 partnership |
| 2 | Allehånde Chain of limited service restaurant serving chicken | $10M | 79 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2008 | — | — |
| 3 | Paradise Chain of stores offering deserts, juices, etc | $452K | 120 mo ago | Early Stage | Soren Falck Hansen CEO | 2000 | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | — |
| 4 | Jungle Chain of bakery cafes offering cakes and pastries | $120K | 60 mo ago | Seed | Kristoffer Hartwig Founder | 2018 | — | — |
| 5 | Jespers Torvekøkken Offers lunch for employees in companies | — | 69 mo ago | Funding Raised | Jesper Holmberg Founder | 1991 | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Ruby+17 | 1 partnership |
| 6 | Meyers Provider of event catering services | — | 103 mo ago | Acquired | Claus Meyer Founder | 1999 | SanityApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+20 | 1 expansion · 1 award |
| 7 | Lagkagehuset Chain of bakery cafes offering coffee and cakes | — | 105 mo ago | Acquired | Lisa Rossen Managing Director | 1991 | SanitySentryZendesk+21 | — |
| 8 | Baresso Coffee Operator of a chain of coffee shops in Denmark. The company operates 50 coffee shops and 33 concept cafes. | — | — | Acquired | — | 1999 | — | — |
Top 7 Food Service Chains companies in Denmark
#1
Acquired · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2002 · 2463 employees$321.8Mraised▾
Joe & The Juice is a food and beverage retail chain with stores located in 13 countries and currently expanding in Norway and Sweden. Their products include signature juices, shakes, coffee, sandwiches and meal bags.
#2
Deadpooled · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2008 · 22 employees$10Mraised▾
Chain of limited service restaurant serving chicken
#3
Early Stage · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2000 · 7 employees$451.5Kraised▾
Operator of an ice-cream franchise company around Denmark, Sweden and the United States. The company specializes in serving fresh and creamy ice cream made with organic milk, cream and cane sugar that focuses on minimizing the fat content and use of fresh and natural ingredients.
#4
Seed · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 2018 · 7 employees$119.6Kraised▾
Developer of an application about places designed to help explore new areas. The company's application helps in deciding where to eat, sleep, drink, and dance, when one visits cities, enabling tourists to create a playlist of places that are curated by local chefs, baristas, fashionistas, and neighborhood natives.
- Aug 2021Seed$119.6K
#5
Funding Raised · Gribskov, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 1991 · 574 employees—raised▾
Provider of food catering services intended to make delicious, healthy and lunch for employees around companies in Greater Copenhagen. The company's food catering services are offered in corporate lunches, canteens, meetings and conferences, enabling people to get the best lunch experience and to make the best of the day. Provider of food catering services intended to make delicious, healthy and lunch for employees around companies in Greater Copenhagen.
#6
Acquired · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 1999 · 1820 employees—raised▾
Provider of event catering services
#7
Acquired · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark · founded 1991 · 911 employees—raised▾
Chain of bakery cafes offering coffee and cakes. It offers artisanal bread, cakes, and pastries as well as other food, teas, and coffee feature in-house bakery production and a scalable roll-out strategy, ranging from large traditional bakeries to smaller urban food-to-go outlets, enabling customers to benefit from the bakery and related items.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Food Service Chains coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Food Technology is moving in Denmark
A read on the academic research around Food Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 315 Denmark-affiliated papers.
- University of Copenhagen78
- Technical University of Denmark76
- Aarhus University67
- International Council for the Exploration of the Sea13
- Copenhagen Business School12
- Life-cycle assessment3
- Sustainability3
- Food safety3
- Food science2
- Food processing2
- Food processing1→22
- Sustainability1→19
- Production (economics)1→14
- Agriculture1→7
- Food security6→24
- Sustainability3→19
- Food safety4→14
- Agriculture5→14
- Production (economics)8→15
Where food tech is researched across Denmark
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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