Scare everyone by swooping around with your arms outstretched while pretending you just beamed yourself out of the UFO-like beeper they give you when you order pizza. Remember to make weird noises.
The Vapiano Concept: You'll (1) queue up 30min in front of a sweating hobby cook, (2) walk your food in search of a free table, (3) eat "Italian" fast food (4) queue again to pay on leaving. Funky! :p
I wouldn't call this place "good for groups," especially at lunch. They make the dishes a few dishes at a time, so the first person and last person in our group were served twenty minutes apart.
The food was good but the concept (self service) meant leaving the table to que endlessly. Pizza took 5 minutes, pasta 30!. So, we all ate separately and not had our meal together.
Self service :( As a single parent with 2 kids I had to leave 1 to guard the table, que endlessly and send the other child back and forth with food. We all ate alone and mostly sat alone.
Comparing Vapiano Restaurants in Europe, Berlin Vapiano Restaurants loose big time. Always crowded, slow and food is often too salty. Menu doesn't offer risotto. Shame!
I did not like the concept. Seems like this is restaurant, but in fact it is fast food. The meal was ok, but not something very 'Italian'. I cook pasta better, guys.
takes forever, pasta is undercooked, and the lines are usually very very long... the pizzas are okay though. also it gets more and more expensive every year, while the quality gets worse and worse...
The worst 'food' I can remember ever eating. Pasta sauces are 'wok' fried. Spaghetti bolognaise was a congealed homogenous mass. Best described as 'Italian McDonalds'.