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In 1950 Yvonne and Clément Vangoidsenhoven had the idea of selling freshly made, hot "Liege waffles" on the street.

Their first sales outlet was " Le Postier "For the first few years, they produced the dough on site and each time they sold out, they would close the shop and make more.

At the start of the sixties, they spent winters in Brussels and summers on the Belgian coast.
In 1970, they owned three shops on the coast and four in Brussels; Egon Vangoidsenhoven started working with his parents at this time.

The first change was to create a production unit in Brussels which supplied the shops with dough several times a day, only the shops on the coast carried on making their own dough.

Shortly afterwards, Vigaufra was used as a brand at all the sales outlets, this name meant old-fashioned waffles or traditional waffles, as they are called in Brussels.

 
 
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At the end of the eighties, Vigaufra had 6 sales outlets in Brussels and had sold off those on the Belgian coast, as Egon Vangoidsenhoven couldn't manage the shops on his own, which were 150 km away.

Nicole Martiny and Alban Vangoidsenhoven joined the venture in 1990.


Dough production had become much more structured by this time and frozen waffle dough was developed.

Between 1993 and 1997, sales outlets in Liege, Namur, Leuven and Antwerp opened as well as several others in super- and hypermarkets.

Belgaufra began exporting to Europe and throughout the world from 1998.