Josef Haas talks about the family business, his first job and his dad.
When the co-owner of the Haas Group asks you to conduct the interview over lunch, one simply says yes, particularly when it’s the Tuttendorfl, a classic Austrian restaurant that sits on the banks of the Danube.
It was a short drive from Leobendorf to Korneuburg on a beautiful summer day, a route dotted with red poppies and one that Josef Haas, co-owner of the Haas Group, knew well, having dined with his father at the Tuttendorfl many times in the past. In fact, as I later found out, Haas Sr. had a special bottle of Armagnac reserved at the restaurant, the vintage going back to 1940.