Demel is an Austrian confectioner and Konditorei that was established in 1786 in Vienna, Austria. The company was granted the status of a Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court (K.u.K. Hoflieferant), specifically as K.u.K. Hofzuckerbäcker.
Location
Demel is located in the central Innere Stadt district of Vienna at Kohlmarkt 14, near the Hofburg palace. The interior was designed by Portois and Fix decorators in a Neo-baroque style.
The white-aproned waitresses (known as Demelinerinnen in German) usually address the customers in a traditional honorific third person style, "Haben schon gewählt?" or "Wollen etwas zu sich nehmen, wenn belieben?".[1] The cabaret artist Helmut Qualtinger extolled their timeless quality in his song Die Demelinerinnen.[2]
The company formerly had a small café at The Plaza