When Gradje Van Zon from Hamont-Achel had to give up butter smuggling in the early 1960s, he began selling meat croquettes, obtained with his Vauxhall in the Netherlands, to Belgian snack bars. Today, his granddaughter Marion Van Zon heads a catering business that in 2022 approached €100 million in turnover and supplies 30,000 different types of catering items to restaurants, bistros and fast-food outlets.