Germany, as well as Italy and the rest of Western Europe, after the Second World War experiences Americanization of a consumption and becomes a consumer society. Italian Catering successfully develops and finds its place in this new of consumption democracy. In the meantime, we can observe a paradigm shift with regard not only to the debate on consumption and consumerism but also to its practices, where the ecological consequences of consumerism have now taken on a global aspect.
Keywords: Consumerism-globalisation, migration and new mobility, Berlin, lifestyle, ecology, regionalism