A German schnitzel restaurant is working against the economic downturn by offering its customers an extravagant delicacy with a difference: a golden schnitzel.
What's being dubbed as the most expensive schnitzel in the world, the 300 grams of breaded veal is fried and then covered in alba truffle cream, black summer truffles and topped off with 24 carat gold leaf. Priced at 150 euros, the golden schnitzel is available in the fast food restaurant "Schnitzel Huber" in the western German town of Duesseldorf. And even in times of financial difficulty, the restaurant's management says the golden schnitzel is still seen as an affordable treat. "We always have bankers here who like to celebrate new contracts, or people taking part in business meetings but once a rock band came and plundered their money by buying 20 of these gold schnitzels," Thomas Huber from Schnitzel Huber told Reuters TV.
Huber, who founded the fast food restaurant together with his wife Irene, focus their business on day-to-day schnitzel meals costing from five to fifteen euros. But Huber adds that the golden schnitzel shows the great variety of the traditional German schnitzel meal. "The idea is just to provoke people a bit. We normally sell much cheaper schnitzel products. We sell more than a million schnitzel a year and 20 to 30 golden schnitzel so with this we want to demonstrate the wide scope of the schnitzel business," he said.
However, don't expect to able to splash out on the golden schnitzel as an impulse purchase. Huber says it has to be ordered a week in advance so that the luxury ingredients can be freshly ordered and prepared to give it the special royal taste - fit for a king.
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