Familie Wiesner Gastronomie sells 75% stake to Gustoso
The Swiss operator of Nooch, Negishi and Miss Miu passes to Munich's Gustoso Gruppe, with the founding family keeping 25% and Nooch due to open in Germany in 2027.
Familie Wiesner Gastronomie, the Dübendorf-based operator of the Nooch, Negishi and Miss Miu restaurants, has sold a 75% stake to Munich's Gustoso Gruppe, the company announced on Tuesday 10 November. Brothers Daniel and Manuel Wiesner keep the remaining 25% and stay on as co-managing directors; the price was not disclosed.
The deal puts one of Switzerland's 20 largest restaurant companies under German control, as Watson reported. FWG runs 32 restaurants across the country with about 850 employees and annual revenue of more than CHF 100 million, according to figures carried by the Swiss news agency SDA. The support office in Dübendorf, just outside Zurich, will remain in its current form.
Why Familie Wiesner Gastronomie chose Gustoso
A Swiss family business of 32 restaurants now measures itself against a portfolio of 250.
Gustoso operates more than 220 restaurants in Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland, with brands including 60 seconds to napoli and Burgermeister, according to Hogapage. Together the two groups count more than 250 restaurants and system sales of close to half a billion euros.
“With Gustoso we see the greatest potential to scale Nooch, Negishi and Miss Miu internationally,” Daniel and Manuel Wiesner said in the announcement. Gustoso chief executive Nico Engel pointed to the mix of professional management and company culture as the basis of the partnership, and said FWG would continue to run as an independent business.
The founders, Fredy and Anita Wiesner, who built the group from the 1990s, will pay out a total bonus of CHF 2.5 million to staff, saying employees had made a decisive contribution to its growth. The sum stands out in a sector where pay is set largely by collective agreement, as the small rise in Swiss hospitality minimum wages for 2027 showed.
Nooch heads to Germany in 2027
The first visible change will come across the border. Nooch Asian Kitchen is due to open its first restaurant outside Switzerland, in Germany, in 2027. At home, FWG intends to keep opening two to three new restaurants a year, while Gustoso plans to widen its own Swiss presence.
None of the reports mentioned a closing date or a review by competition authorities. The brands keep their names and the brothers keep the day-to-day running of the business. What changes is the yardstick: a Swiss family company of 32 restaurants now sits inside a portfolio of more than 250, and its next openings will be judged against that scale.
