“Goldener Kessel is my living room”

Düsseldorf. Frank Wackers quickly went to sit in the local “Im Goldenen Kessel” for 40 years. If there was a warning and a good promise at that time, there was a better service.

It’s not a minute anymore, but Frank Wackers is working on the Altbiergläser. Routine for the Zappes in Brauereiausschank “Im Goldenen Kessel”. “Frankie, noch eins, bitte!”, shouts ein Kollege. Frank Wackers nicks and zaps another beer. There is in seinem Element. Seit 38 Years of work by the Düsseldorfer Mittlerweile in the local area and the Bolkerstraße in the Altstadt – and that is its own business in gastronomy. “Ein Anruf, ich kam und bin geblieben,” said Frank Wackers, laughing.

It is on June 16, 1986. An award for Frank Wackers, who is 20 years old, and a bittet in a Help. A service force is urgently needed in the “Golden Kessel”. The young Mann said that. And then everything can go so well: Thea Schnitzler, the mother of the Schumacher Brewery, knows the potential, the “Schumacher gene”, the skilled car mechanics and offers an ad hoc a party. “Innerhalb von zwei Tagen has a new job. Das war schon ein bisschen verrückt”, said Frank Wackers today.

Frank Wackers in seinem Element: “I am Goldenen Kessel” in the Düsseldorfer Altstadt is like Zappes am Zapfhahn.
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Two generations of the family Schnitzler-Ungermann hat Wackers in “Goldenen Kessel” schon miterlebt. “I’m more here than I am now. Der Goldene Kessel is my living room,” he says. Seine Hochzeit is in the Schumacher-Locale land, in the Stammhaus and the Oststraße, the Taufe and the Konfirmationen that form Kinder ebenfalls. „I live 100 years behind the house, behind the family.“ Seine Augen strahlen, wenn Frank Wackers von seiner Arbeit spricht.

Waiter in the Düsseldorfer Altstadt: Weit more than beer zapfen

Waiter in the Altstadt sein? It’s so good that I have more time to eat and serve beer. Frank Wackers is an enthusiast, problem solver, entertainer and irrenderwie of a bisschen psychology. “I know the personal development and the success story of a family.” Reports of a married couple, 64 years old is the exalted. 2021 reports that the couple was badly damaged during a visit in the “Golden Kessel”, a house in Gerresheim near Hochwasser in July. Frank Wackers does not wait long, while he packs a help and a hat for the festive evening while working on the restoration.

“I love my job, there is my job. I’m here, but I’m not more happy.”

Frank Wackers

Waiter in Altstadt-Lokal “I am Goldenen Kessel”

When Corona is very important for the tribe of the einkauf, it is true that it is with seniors, the partner being spoiled, zum Friedhof, um who Gräber zu besuchen. Kurzum: Wackers is a machinist. “The gratitude we see in the life of men is for me the greatest,” says the Düsseldorfer about his commitment. Manchmal is nur ein gutes Wort, een kurze Umarmung. “Viele Stammgäste suchen gezielt das Gespräch.”

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If you want to experience that pleasurable moment in the gastroallergenic meal. A flotten Spruch hat Wackers is always ready. Manchmal ein bisschen large, manchmal ein bisschen frech. “Aber niemals unter der Gürtellinie”, concreted der Kellner. Für good Unterhaltung sogen, das kann der 58-Jährige. Gerne is a Japanese Profi-Sumoringer group of the group, which covered the Stammhaus and Oststraße 30 years ago. „Plötzlich fuhr dieser Bus vor en immer mehr Sumoringer aus. There were total überrumpelt and mussten that stabilize Sitzbänke mit Bierfässern.”

Frank Wackers served Altbier with Prinz Harry and Arnold Schwarzenegger

We will increasingly wait for Frank Wackers’ promise. Prinz Harry and his wife Meghan Markle from Beispiel. Aber auch Arnold Schwarzenegger und Harald Schmidt bekamen von Wackers schon een Alt-serviert. “As for all normal people, they were not treated differently,” said Wackers. Zu Schauspieler Jochen Busse (“7 Days, 7 Köpfe”) hat der Köbes, wie Kellner in Rheinland was also genannt, with a friendly relationship. “Jochen comes privately for coffee when he is there in Düsseldorf,” says Wackers.

Frank Wackers with Thea Ungermann from the Schumacher Altbier-Manufaktur in the “Goldenen Kessel” in the Altstadt.
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Knapp 40 years in the gastronomy is a Frank Wackers who has no preference for a good course of events. If you press on the back, you can no longer point the button with the right direction. Ans Aufhören proudly thinks of the 58-year-old. “I love this job, there is my work. I am here, until nothing more happens.”

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So when it comes to cooking, it is worth letting Frank Wackers taste beer with his guests. That is the principle. “If I have the skirt, also my work clothing tragedy, I will not drink it”, it is said. An Ausnahme is one of the few things we can do: if Frank Wackers is in retirement for a few years, it is one of the ways he can make an Arbeitstag in Alt. True blessing of work time. With skirt.

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