To the right of the entrance is the Frederick & Sons Restaurant, left at the front of the scoreboard, go to the safety check, between the check -in switches are between travelers on Linz Airport You enter the departure room. What hardly anyone knows: the ovens here run a stick here at the airport.
Warehouses and Technology are housed in the basement of Linz airport, as well as the simulating corridors of the Rotorsky Helicopter School. In the immediate vicinity, but also baked and cooked in the well -painted security area.
Because: the Don Group, the largest private catering company in Austria, a kitchen and a bakery, has set itself up directly under the departure room with the check -in switches. “We use the location to deliver other locations from here – especially with increasing costs, you try to increase synergies,” says director Christian Hölbl.
Backstube in operation since February 2022
The company has been active at the airport for almost six years and operates the Frederick & Sons Restaurant and the Gastro and the Dutyfreee Shop on the departure gates. Little by little you have also conquered the building from the areas that travelers see. The bakery was only taken into use around February 2022.
Apple and Wongel Kaasstrudel, various cakes such as Black Forest Kirsch, Nutella CEecakes and Chocolate Brownies are made here, but desserts for the Vapiano restaurants that belong to the company are also produced in Hörsching.
Bedrijfsbaas is a trained pastry chef
With the patisserie, the boss Josef Donhauser also remains faithful to his roots. Donhauser is a trained pastry chef. In the company of his parents in Kirchberg am Change, it was also produced for a long time for Don, now no longer. “Everything we made there walked to Linz,” said Hölbl. This also applied to the production machines that moved from Lower Austria to Austria to Austria.
The kitchen and bakery team is small, but the drawing is growth. “We will be fully expanded for 15 employees,” says Georg Reichenvater of Dons Catering Linz GmbH. The company was also extensive at the airport itself. Since the comeback of the Frankfurt connection, people have been responsible for the catering of passengers of the Austrian airlines carried out by the Regional Airlines of the Baathens.
Speaking of airport catering: there is no new territory in Linz, because Don is already working in this segment in Vienna. “We have two major customers: once the Air India, which we take care of from Vienna, and since November 1 we also work with Wizz Air,” Hölbl reveals.
The group currently works in the group, the majority of them in Austria. There is plenty to do, because apart from the classic catering company, you are also active as an operator of various restaurants, for example in the Anton in the Music Theater in Linz or in Bruckner’s in the Brucknerhaus in Linz, plus four subways and 12 Vapiano -restaurants . In Vienna you are in the Burgtheater, in the Muziektheater op Vienna, in the Cobenzl or in the Parkcafé in Belvedere Castle.
Source: Krone
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