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This has to be the most complicated elevator button panel I have ever seen. This is in Fassbender & Rausch chocolate store in Berlin. Maybe the abbreviations are German-based, but there were Germans who couldn't figure it out.

The elevator goes from the ground level up to the restaurant on the first floor. There are two doors at the ground level - one into the shop and one onto the street. This means you can go to the restaurant from the street level without entering the shop. There is only one door from the elevator to the restaurant on the first floor. I assume all the keyhole buttons next to the EG and OG buttons are locks for those doors. They add to the clutter. They aren't buttons, but they look like buttons. Then you have your usual open and close door buttons. And the not-a-button keyhole button at the top. I don't know what that is for.

This elevator went back and forth very slowly. I believe it was because people had to stop and think which button to push when they entered the elevator.

To add to the confusion, we have the LED display. I believe EG and the up arrow meant you are at EG level and you are heading up. However, I read it as we're going up to the EG level, which we can't because it is the lowest level!

Maybe it is only for younger people in Germany. When we got in, my daughter figured it out quickly while non-German-speaking-me and a group of Germans stood there mesmerized by the display.
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