Our story
It started in a kitchen in Salzburg
Standing Ovation was not devised at a drawing board, but by someone who lost his own trade.
Peter Lammer had a restaurant. The Johanneskeller in Salzburg, four children at home, and a trade he practised standing up. Like every chef.
When he was involved in a serious road accident, that changed in an instant. What followed was not only pain. With eighty per cent permanent occupational disability and legs that could no longer carry his weight, there was no standing profession left that he could practise. Not with the aids that existed at the time. His trade was gone, and with it his income.
What he did next is the reason this company exists.
Something that did not yet exist
Together with his business partner and friend Bernhard Tichy, Peter set out to find a solution that did not exist. Not a wheelchair, because then you are seated and no longer reach your worktop. Not a stool or sit-stand support, because that leaves you standing still in one place. He was looking for something that would let him keep moving through his own kitchen, with both hands free, without leaning on his legs.
What they devised is what is now called Standing Ovation: a rail overhead, and from it a mobility support with a saddle that takes over part of the body weight. Nothing more. No power, no battery, no app. You decide where you go; the system carries along.
Peter Lammer stands in his own kitchen again. The Austrian press called him the floating chef. He puts it more simply himself: come by the Johanneskeller, have something to eat, and see for yourself.
From one kitchen to thousands of workplaces
Standing Ovation was designed for someone who could no longer stand. But what keeps a chef with eighty per cent occupational disability upright does something else for people who can still stand: it takes away load before anything goes wrong.
That is how the second application came about. The same system, a different reason. Not to come back, but never to have to leave. It is now used in kitchens and workshops, in rehabilitation, and at home.
The system is patented and CE-certified as a medical device. It is therefore not an ergonomic accessory that happens to help, but a certified aid designed to carry weight.
How it started in the Netherlands
It started with a question. An occupational expert approached us about one of his clients: there was a system that allowed someone to keep working standing up, and could we supply it in the Netherlands?
We did not know at that point. We looked into it and were able to examine it closely at a trade fair in Germany. What struck us there was how solidly it is built. No electronics that can fail, no software needing updates. A structure that does what it has to do, and that was clearly devised by someone who knew exactly why every part was there.
We were so enthusiastic that we decided not to leave it at that one client. In 2026 it became a fact: since then we supply and install Standing Ovation in the Netherlands.
That the first question came from an occupational expert rather than a buyer says something. Here too, it started with one person at risk of losing their work.
The solution
What Standing Ovation comes down to: a height-adjustable saddle on a curved tube. You sit on it, the system takes over part of your weight, and you carry on moving through the room as usual — with both hands free.
See how it worksWhat we believe
We believe that no one should have to give up their work because of physical strain that can be prevented or reduced.
That is not a slogan. That is exactly what almost happened to the man who devised this.