buchgourmet carried approximately 10,000 titles; eckel orders between 500 and 1,000 new items a year, primarily from small and specialist presses, but at least one fifth of the stock consisted of used and antiquarian books. at least two fifths were in languages other than german. eckel also maintained a search list of some 450 items. almost three quarters of the store's sales were made online, approximately 60 percent to culinary professionals, including chefs, pastrycooks, and bartenders. it was called "a mecca for cooking fans, gourmets, foodies, cooking stars and cooking hobbyists".