Terms & Conditions

General terms of business

§ 1 Exclusiveness clause

All business relationships - including future business-are based on the following terms of business by FLORIS Catering GmbH.

§ 2 Placing of orders

All offers by FLORIS Catering GmbH are kept open. Every assignment needs a written confirmation by the client in order to be regarded as binding upon both parties.

§ 3 Change of Invoice-Address

FLORIS Catering GmbH calls your attention that we will charge 50,00 EUR for changing the invoice address after our agreement. The original party to the agreement is the same. Besides we will charge interest on arrears on an allowable level.

§ 4 Number of persons

Minor changes concerning the number of persons must be confirmed until six working days before the date of the event. FLORIS Catering GmbH reserves the right to eventually adjust the price to the change of the number of persons. The confirmed number of persons is the basis for the total account, independent of how many persons really attended the event.

§ 5 Damage and loss of equipment

The client has to take care of the provided equipment. The client is liable for any damage or loss of equipment, as far as FLORIS Catering GmbH is not to blame. Damage or loss of material will be charged either with the replacement value or with the cost of repairs.

§ 6 Weather factors and foreign influences

FLORIS Catering GmbH is not liable if weather factors or foreign influences do not allow to fulfill the assignment. Possible advance payments will be refunded.

§ 7 Delays

FLORIS Catering GmbH is not responsible for any delays, except these delays are made through own fault.

§ 8 Cancellation of the event

If the event is-without written announcement until two weeks before the date-cancelled by the client, 50 % of the provisional calculation are charged. If the cancellation of the event is announced (written) before these two weeks, 20 % of the provisional calculation are charged for the expense in planning.

§ 9 Liability

FLORIS Catering GmbH is only liable for intent and grosse recklessness and, beyond that, only liable as far as sub-suppliers are liable towards FLORIS Catering GmbH.

§ 10 Miscellaneous Provisions

Events with music – whether live music, background music with recordings or audio recordings played by a DJ – have to be registered with the GEMA. This has to be done by the organizer of the event. If the organizer misses filing with the GEMA, FLORIS Catering GmbH will forward the organizer’s contact information by request to the GEMA.

§ 11 Legal domicile and law to apply

Exclusive legal domicile for all lawsuits is the headquarter of FLORIS Catering GmbH. Also for assignments abroad german law is effective. Deviating agreements or side agreements to these general business terms need to be written down to be effective.

§ 12 Salvadorian clause

Should one rule of these gender terms of business or any rule within the framework of other arrangements be inoperative or become inoperative, the effectiveness of all other rules is not touched.

§ 13 Utilisation of the facilities at Palais am Festungsgraben

In case the orderer utilises rooms and facilities of the Palais am Festungsgraben in Berlin, the terms of business under http://www.floris-catering.de/de/agb, which the orderer has read and accepted, apply in addition to the previously mentioned terms of business regulating the utilisation of these facilities.