3 Sibylle Turner - 2 months ago
The booking website says, payment by bank transfer (Überweisung), however, once you complete the booking request you receive an email confirmation and then you actually pay on site. You are then provided with earphones. The guide specifically mentioned NOT to take any photographs without permission of anybody (meaning her). You will view some videos about food preparation, e.g. the pizzas, then you are lead to some rooms with displays and free tear-off recipe cards. You can only view the test kitchen from the outside. After the first hour you can help yourself to some warm custard from the fountain. Free drinks are provided. At the end of the tour free hot pizza is served, including coffee and Dr. Oetker desserts, like little cakes. It is good value for money, however, once you read about Dr Oetker on Wikipedia, you pretty much know everything, especially if you have his cookbooks at home and use the products. A self-guided tour would have been sufficient, but obviously they can't do that because it is an actual office building which is currently in use. The products in the shop are way too overpriced. What annoyed me most was that people queuing up for the pizza did not give a toss about social distancing!! The guide should have stepped in and reminded people to keep a distance of 1,5 metres. I had a guy right behind me invading my space, and another couple just occupied our table even though there were many other free ones available. The show bag contained a magazine, a sachet of rye sourdough, a Gugelhupf (who still eats Gugelhupf, boring!), an empty box with logo
