Nico Schefer
Nico Schefer
ZHAW
School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
Competency Group Hospitality & Service Management
Reidbach
8820 Wädenswil
Work at ZHAW
Position
Research Associate in Hospitality Management with a focus on Food Service
Experience
- CEO & Board of Directors
RunMyResto by HS-Soft
01 / 2024 - 08 / 2025 - Co-Founder & Board of Directors
Prognolite AG
01 / 2019 - 04 / 2024 - Apprenticeship as a chef to Head of Food & Beverage Operations
Restaurant and hotel industry
08 / 2006 - 02 / 2021
Education and Continuing education
Education
- Master of Science in Preneurship for Regenerative Food Systems (PREFS) / Organisationstransformation, Leadership & Management
ZHAW Life Sciences and Facility Management
09 / 2023 - 07 / 2025 - Bachelor of Science ZFH in Business Administration / General Management
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
09 / 2018 - 07 / 2020 - Advanced Federal Diploma of Higher Education in Hospitality Management
Zurich Hotel Management School
01 / 2014 - 12 / 2015 - Chef EFZ
Apprenticeship as a chef
08 / 2006 - 08 / 2009
Network
Membership of networks
ORCID digital identifier
Social media
Media presence
- GastroJournal: From Nico Schefer to Matti Doulis: Major reshuffle at HFZ Alumni
- Guest author GastroJournal: For a worm in horseradish, the world consists of horseradish
- Guest author GastroJournal: A time of change in changing times
- Guest author GastroJourna: Optimizing employee costs
- Innofund: Six intimate questions with Nico Schefer, Co-CEO at Prognolite
- Impact ZHAW: The data miners
- GastrouJournal: Using digitalization to optimize the restaurant industry
- Hotellerie & Gastronomie Zeitung: Next-Gen Award: these are the nominees
Projects
- Development of the basis for the digitalisation roadmap for facility management at the Winterthur Integrated Psychiatry (IPW) / Team member / ongoing
- Catering concept Zollikerberg / Project leader / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
Gerber, N., Merkle, T. and Schefer, N. (2025) 'Wanted: New approaches for food service provision in care homes of the future', Journal of Ageing and Longevity, 5(4), p. 50. doi: 10.3390/jal5040050.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
Schefer, N. and Merkle, T. (2026) 'The Step Productivity Index (SPI) : a human-centred metric for advancing operational excellence and equality in restaurants', in CHME Annual Conference, Surrey, United Kingdom, 9–12 June 2026.
Other publications
Schefer, N. (2026) 'Verpflegung ganzheitlich denken für komplexe Investitionsentscheide', Clinicum, 26(2), pp. 74–75. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-36642.
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
- Schefer, N. (2026) 'Food-Innovationen in der Gastronomie', in Impulstagung «Wiitblick», Ermatingen, Schweiz, 18. Mai 2026.
- Schefer, N. (2026) 'Wo geht die Zukunft der Verpflegung hin?', in 6. Schweizer Hotellerie-Symposium im Gesundheitswesen, Suhr, Schweiz, 12. Mai 2026.
Publications before appointment at the ZHAW
Training book for service apprentices Chef de Rang (Band 6) ISBN 978-3-906121-33-8 | Art. 050.509