The aim of this paper is to present and discuss a New Nordic approach to higher education aiming at meeting the new demands of the out of home eating sector. It presents 4 Nordic examples of research based educations that aims at contributing to workforce development for the profession involved in future out of home eating foodscapes. It discusses some of the overall themes that future higher education for out of future captive foodscapes needs to address and it finally present a lay out of an integrated in joint Nordic educational initiative that will address these challenges.