Michael von Aichberger 's pizza page

Being a proper businessman and the second stage of my life dawning upon me, I'd like to start a foundation. That is, I want to do something that would provide encouragement to those in need so that they won't despair. Something that would help them make the right decision in difficult situations. Every day at lunchtime, many of our fellow human beings go through a deep crisis because they don't know which pizza delivery service to choose. In fact, the decision on the pizza delivery service is one of the most important ones of the entire day, for usually you've got only one chance. And if they wreck it, the whole day is messed up. And although everybody is acquainted with that kind of problem, a major part of society pretends it doesn't exist. But it's the eleventh hour for most of those concerned!

And this is my foundation's time for action: The Pizza Test Foundation has judged pizza delivery services in the catchment area of Ackerstraße 144 in Köln-Mülheim by objective (weight, diameter, price) and subjective (employee poll) criteria. A neutral approach and enormous expertise have lead to results that are placed at the interested public's disposal in a comprehensible way.

And this is how the test was performed: We ordered a vegetarian pizza each. The pictures on the right show how the pizza looked like the minute it had been delivered. Click them for more detailed illustrations. Von Aichberger & Roenneke GmbH employees judged the pizza by several factors. We converted the results by means of mathematic formulas into average values which we present in a table together with valuable insider information.

If you have any questions at all concerning the pizza test, don't hesitate to contact our pizza test support hotline which is available round the clock (i. e. one round of the second hand on the clock face) between 12:59 and 1 p. m. every first working day of each leap year: +49-221-9 63 71 - 12. – The Pizza Test Foundation wishes "Buon appetito!"

pizza delivery service	weight	diameter	price	toppings	dough	fat	Spontan- note	comments	pircture
Wipperfürther Alte Wipperfürther Str. 72 51065 Köln Tel.: 69 56 19 (no delivery service)	625 g	23.0 cm	DEM 10.50 (= DEM 1.68 per 100 g)	2.0	1,5	4.0	1.5	+: very good and cheap -: no delivery service -: pizza much too greasy
Torino Montanusstr. 51 51065 Köln Tel.: 62 32 76	525 g	25.5 cm (27 cm quoted)	DEM 13.50 (= DEM 2.57 per 100 g)	2.3	2.1	2.4	2.1	-: staff hardly able to speak German -: pizza much smaller than quoted -: drinks delivered in cans -: in spite of tip no "thanks"
Pizza Team Bergisch-Gladbacher-Str. 493 51067 Köln Tel. 63 40 40	650 g	25.0 cm - 25.5 cm	DEM 16.00 (= DEM 2.46 per 100 g)	1.9	3.0	2.1	2.1	+: good organization +: generous topping, a lot of vegetables, thin crust -: most expensive pizza tested -: no free drinks -: no special offers
Turbo Pizza Oranienstr. 144 51103 Köln Tel.: 87 25 12	468 g	24 cm (26 cm quoted)	DEM 12.00 (= DEM 2.56 DEM per 100 g)	2.3	2.4	2.0	2.2	-: staff hardly able to speak German -: drinks were delivered in cans even though we had agreed on deposit bottles. -: pizza much smaller than quoted
Milano Berliner Str. 89 51065 Köln Tel.: 64 54 94	458 g	26.0 cm (26 cm quoted)	DEM 11.00 (= DEM 2.40 per 100 g)	2.1	2.2	3.0	2.2	-: staff hardly able to speak German +: Mo-Fr 11-14h: Pizza or Pasta DEM 8 (DEM 1.75 /per 100 g) only.
Bella Italia Schnellweider Straße 83 51067 Köln Tel. 63 77 33	498 g	25.5 cm - 26.0 cm (26 cm quoted)	DEM 12.00 (= DEM 2.41 per 100 g)	1.8	2.3	2.5	2.3	-: cigarette advertising on the pizza box
Pizza Palast Kampgasse 20 51107 Köln Tel. 8 70 05 66	566 g	24.5 cm (27 cm quoted)	DEM 12.90 (= DEM 2.12 per 100 g)	2.4	2.2	2.2	2.3	-: drinks delivered in cans -: pizza much smaller than quoted
Millennium Olpener Str. 839 51109 Köln Tel. 9 84 17 17	658 g	23.5 cm (26 cm quoted)	DEM 11.00 (= DEM 1.67 per 100 g)	2.7	2.3	2.9	2.5	+: dessert for free -: drinks delivered in cans -: pizza much smaller than quoted
Tele Pizza Manteuffelstr. 9 51105 Köln Tel.: 8 70 01 75	445 g	25.0 cm - 26.5 cm (26 cm quoted)	12.90 DEM (= 2.90 DEM per 100 g)	2.8	3.1	2.3	2.9	+: good organization +: seasonal special meals -: drinks delivered in cans
Armin Eythstr. 63 51103 Köln Tel.: 85 85 21	517 g	25.7 cm - 26.0 cm (28 cm quoted)	DEM 13.00 (= DEM 2.51 per 100 g)	2.5	3.6	2.7	3.1	-: staff hardly able to speak German -: pizza much smaller than quoted -: free drink was promised but not delivered

notes indicated as used in German schools - ranging from 1 (very good) to 6 (not good at all)

My basic lunch box

A pizza box is something different. Conventional product packing shows the contents, usually trimmed up slightly, but a "normal" pizza box plainly shows the Italian flag. Or a pizza baker. Or simply nothing at all. Yet this space could be decorated with something useful: wisecracks for instance, a calorie chart or an appeal for donations to starving children in Afghanistan.

Pizza Team in Cologne tried something completely different on their "lunch boxes": Ads for fags. Pizza is, admittedly, not exactly Haute Cuisine, but tobacco smoke goes with pizza like the smell of raw rumen with apple strudel.

And: It may be true that excessive consumption of pizza isn’t healthy either, but smoking is a lethal addiction.
In Germany, 308 people a day are dying because they smoked to much. Bans on cigarette ads catch on recently with good reason. However, for the tobacco industry there are still plenty of mugs around, i. e. the pizza bakers. They should eat their special tobacco pizza themselves!

Cigarette ads on pizza boxes? From my point of view this is a crackpot idea.

Meine Pizza-Seite - Pizzaschachtel mit Aufschrift "Pizza mit Aya"

There are plenty of different pizzas available. Some have tuna topping, some have mushroom topping. At Tele-Pizza’s you can chose from a list of 30 toppings. How likely is the pizza baker (or driver) to spell these 30 words correctly? Shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

Tele-Pizza’s customers will have serious doubts about it, though. They can laugh about new spelling varieties every day. The Tele-pizzian who wrote "Pabrika" (correctly spelled “Paprika”), was smart in comparison to his colleagues - at least he got 6 out of 7 letters right. But some don’t even succeed in guessing one single letter of a – strictly speaking – easy German word: Only after having a look at the pizza with egg topping you’ll realize what “aya” stands for (correctly spelled “Eiern”. And now you know for whom they changed the German spelling rules:
- for “Pizza-Begga” (Pizza-Bäcker = bakers) and “Pizza-Vara” (Pizza-Fahrer = drivers).