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