Bakkie040 and Happie040 were already closed in recent weeks due to the summer break. They may reopen briefly. “We have sufficient financial resources to remain open until September 1, but I’ll leave it up to the employees to decide whether they still want to,” Jean-Pierre van Beers, interim director of Springplank040, told Eindhovens Dagblad yesterday.

The Strijp-S location has also been closed since this week. Springplank040 is trying to find other entrepreneurs interested in taking over Bakkie040 and Happie040. Employees were informed on Monday.

Social entrepreneurship

The food and beverage outlets were established to help people with work experience and support them moving to other jobs. However, the combination of social entrepreneurship and running a commercial food service business has proven financially unsustainable.

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