Runners is a familiar name in The Hague, back with a fresh look and a door that is open from breakfast to dinner. Now we want to bring that feeling to more neighbourhoods, together with people who love hosting as much as we do.
You run the brasserie. We bring the concept, the brand, the menu, the suppliers and the whole YOUNG ecosystem behind you.
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Every Runners is run by an entrepreneur, not a manager. The exact split depends on what you bring, and we agree it together before you commit.
I have run restaurants. I want a brand behind me.
Open a Runners in your neighbourhood and lead it day to day, with the concept, the brand and our team behind you from the first plan to long after opening.
I know hospitality. Now I want my own place.
Years of experience in restaurants, cafés or hotels, but no business of your own yet. We show you how a Runners runs, from the kitchen to the terrace, before your doors open.
My building deserves a place like this.
A ground floor on a busy corner, an empty restaurant, a space a neighbourhood could gather in. We look at the location and its market and find the partner and the plan that fit.
You run it, we stand behind it. Runners is part of YOUNG, the group behind Bitterkoud, Italo Disco and the YOUNG Learning Restaurant, so you are never building on your own.
The Runners identity, look and feel, adapted to your building and your street.
Recipes, the all-day menu, agreed suppliers and YOUNG products such as YOUNG Coffee, ready to serve.
Your team learns the Runners way by doing it, alongside our people in The Hague.
Opening campaign, photography, social media, the website and the reservation system.
The approach, materials and contacts to welcome teams, clubs and celebrations.
For selected partnerships, support with fit-out, equipment or working capital, agreed personally before anything is signed.
The location, or the will to find the right one with us.
Daily leadership of your team and your guests.
Local roots, knowing the neighbourhood and its rhythm.
Your own investment, discussed in a personal conversation.
Real attention, for the details and for every guest.
More than a partner. Every YOUNG partner can also become a shareholder in the wider YOUNG ecosystem. Ask us about it in your first conversation.
A Runners is run by someone who already knows the floor. Restaurant managers, chefs, café and brasserie owners: people with years in hospitality who know what a busy Saturday asks of a team, and are ready for a place of their own.
Tell us who you are and what you bring.
We get to know each other and walk you through the model.
Your experience, the location and the financial picture.
Come for breakfast at Runners, and we come to see your place.
Investment, financing and terms, agreed in writing.
Doors open and we stay close as your brasserie grows.
Yes. You lead the brasserie and its team every day, so experience in hospitality is the starting point. It does not have to be your own business yet: years as a manager, chef or head of service count, and onboarding in The Hague is part of the route.
We start in and around The Hague and are open to other cities in the Netherlands. The best locations are lively neighbourhoods with people around from morning to evening. Tell us where you have in mind.
It depends on the location, its condition and the route you choose. We share the full overview personally in the first conversations, so you get numbers that match your situation, based on our own brasserie.
The core of the menu and the way we work are the same in every Runners, so guests know what to expect. There is room for local suppliers and seasonal touches, agreed together.
Yes. Many partners start with people they already trust. Everyone is trained the Runners way before opening, and we help you recruit where needed.
Please do. Come for breakfast or dinner at Van Hogenhoucklaan 168. It is part of the process, and the best way to feel what Runners is about.
Tell us about the Runners you have in mind. Your message goes straight to the people who decide, and we answer every enquiry personally.
Prefer email? Write to partners@young.com or call +31 85 799 5084.
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Same attention, new address.
Fresh, friendly and familiar, in a street that is waiting for it. Let’s find out together if that street is yours.