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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Hayward Opens in Carlton

  209, North Kutch Street, Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon, 97111, United StatesHayward·…

  

  Starts 07/31/2025ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as July 2025, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]

  Chef-owner Kari Shaughnessy opens a polished, seasonal restaurant in Carlton, a town of about 2,100 in Oregon's wine country.

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• Food09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Emsflower Plants First Crop in New Emsbüren Greenhouse Expansion

  Emsflower, Emsbüren, GermanyEmsflower

  

  Starts 07/15/2025CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoFloralDaily's^[2] coverage of Emsflower's 20th anniversary states the first plant went into the new 14-hectare greenhouse expansion on 15 July 2025.

  Europe's largest bedding-plant nursery, Emsflower, planted the first crop in its new 14-hectare greenhouse expansion in Emsbüren, Germany on 15 July 2025, growing its glasshouse footprint that already produces up to 500 million plants a year.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Demel Opens as a Konditorei by the Hofburg

  14 Kohlmarkt, Innere Stadt, Vienna, AustriaDemel

  

  Starts 12/31/1786ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE239.7 years agoWikipedia^[1] gives the year only - "established in 1786 in Vienna" - with no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day.

  Demel was established in 1786 a few steps from the Hofburg and became confectioner to the imperial court, a title it still puts on its boxes. Its window on the Kohlmarkt and its Anna Torte made it one of the fixtures by which Vienna measures its café culture, and it sits at the centre of a long argument with Hotel Sacher over who may call a cake a Sachertorte.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Café Gerbeaud Opens on Vörösmarty Square

  Gerbeaud Confectionary, 7-8, Vörösmarty square, Lipótváros, 5th district, Budapest, Central Hungary, 1051, HungaryCafé Gerbeaud

  

  Starts 12/31/1858ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE167.7 years agoThe article states it was "opened in 1858" and gives no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day.^[1]

  The coffeehouse on Vörösmarty tér opened in 1858 and grew into one of the largest and grandest in Europe, its rooms panelled and chandeliered on a scale that belongs to the Habsburg city. It gave its name to the Gerbeaud slice and remains the fixture by which Budapest's café tradition is measured.

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• Food09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Heinz Opens Its Kitt Green Factory in Wigan

  Kitt Green, Orrell, Wigan WN5 0LU, UKHeinz

  

  Starts 05/21/1959CONFIRMED78% CONFIDENCE67.3 years agoWikipedia's^[3] H. J. Heinz, Wigan article dates the Kitt Green factory's opening to 21 May 1959.

  H.J. Heinz opens its Kitt Green factory near Wigan, which grows into the company's largest food processing plant in the world and Europe's biggest.

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• Semiconductors09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Bosch Opens €1 Billion Chip Fab in Dresden

  Dresden-Hellerau, Dresden, GermanyBosch

  

  Starts 06/07/2021CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE5.3 years agoBosch's own media release, "Bosch opens chip factory of the future in Dresden," states the fab was opened on 7 June 2021.^[1]

  Bosch opened its new 300mm wafer fab in Dresden, a roughly €1 billion, highly automated plant producing sensors and microchips for cars and consumer electronics.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Caffè Florian Opens on Piazza San Marco

  Caffè Florian, 57, Piazza San Marco, San Marco, Venezia-Murano-Burano, Lido, Venice, Venezia, Veneto, 30124, ItalyCaffè Florian

  

  Starts 12/31/1720ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE305.7 years agoThe article's infobox gives the year only - founded 1720 - so the pin sits on that year's last day.^[1]

  Floriano Francesconi opened his coffee house under the arcades of Piazza San Marco in 1720, making it one of the oldest cafés in continuous business anywhere. It admitted women when other Venetian cafés did not, which is how Casanova came to be among its regulars, and its orchestra still plays to the square.

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• Food09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Carr's Opens Its Carlisle Biscuit Works, Later Home to McVitie's

  54 Church Street, Caldewgate, Carlisle, Cumbria CA2 5TG, United KingdomMcVitie's

  

  Starts 01/01/1831ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCE195.7 years agoWikipedia^[2] and Carr's own company histories date the founding of Jonathan Dodgson Carr's Carlisle bakery and biscuit factory to 1831, without a more precise day recorded.

  Jonathan Dodgson Carr founds a small bakery and biscuit factory in Carlisle, pioneering mass biscuit production. The site is still operating today as a McVitie's factory, the world's oldest continually-running biscuit works.

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• Food09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Kellogg's Opens Its Trafford Park Cereal Factory in Manchester

  Trafford Park, Stretford, Manchester M32 8RA, UKKellogg's

  

  Starts 05/24/1938CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE88.3 years agoWikipedia's^[3] Manchester Plant article gives the inauguration date as 24 May 1938, on Empire Day.

  Kellogg's inaugurates its Trafford Park factory in Manchester, the first Kellogg's plant built outside the United States. Built in ten months, it becomes the largest cereal factory in the British Empire.

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• Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk

  TSMC's Dresden Fab (ESMC) Tops Out

  TSMC·…European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) GmbH, Robert-Bosch-Ring, Hellerau/Wilschdorf, 01109 Dresden, Saxony, Germany

  Starts 09/14/2026 10:00AMCONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE9 days agoFocus Taiwan^[1]: "A topping out ceremony was held Monday at the site" (dateline Sept. 14, "The ceremony, held on Sept. 14"); dpa's preview gave the time: ESMC "feiert ... am Montag (12.00 Uhr) mit einem Richtfest den Abschluss des Rohbaus" - noon CEST, 10:00 UTC.

  Twenty-five months after its groundbreaking, ESMC - TSMC's joint venture with Bosch, Infineon and NXP - celebrated the topping-out of its roughly EUR 10 billion chip fab in Dresden, TSMC's first in Europe. The shell is finished; cleanroom fit-out follows, with the first process tools due in the second half of 2027.

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• Food09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Cadbury Opens Its Claremont Chocolate Factory on the Derwent

  100 Cadbury Road, Claremont TAS 7011, AustraliaCadbury

  

  Starts 10/21/1921CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE104.9 years agoThe Glenorchy City Council's centenary history and Wikipedia's^[2] article on the factory both give October 21, 1921 as its official opening date.

  Cadbury's first factory outside Britain officially opened at Claremont on Hobart's Derwent River on October 21, 1921, drawn by Tasmania's cheap hydroelectricity and reliable dairy supply. The site still turns local milk and sugar into millions of Easter eggs and bunnies each year.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Savoy Opens Above the Esplanade

  Ravintola Savoy, 14, Eteläesplanadi, Kaartinkaupunki, Southern major district, Helsinki, Helsinki sub-region, Uusimaa, Mainland Finland, 00130, FinlandSavoy

  

  Starts 06/03/1937CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE89.3 years agoThe article states "The restaurant opened on 3 June 1937", giving the exact day.^[1]

  The Savoy opened on 3 June 1937 on the top floor above the Esplanade, with an interior by Alvar and Aino Aalto - the room the Savoy Vase was designed for, and the one Mannerheim ate in often enough to leave his vorschmack on the menu permanently.

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