Device for the ready-to-eat preparation of a pineapple in brick-and-mortar trade, having: - a receiving device for receiving a pineapple in the device, - a drive with a driver for moving a pineapple to be prepared in conveying direction from the receiving device to a cutting device, and - a cutting device for separating the skin and the core from edible fruit flesh of the pineapple, wherein the cutting device comprises a separating unit for separating the skin and the core from edible fruit flesh of the pineapple, wherein - the separating unit comprises a peeling-and-coring blade, which can be moved in a stroke movement, has two concentrically arranged cutting elements and is set up to remove the core of a pineapple and to peel the pineapple, and to prepare a hollow-cylindrical intermediate product of edible fruit flesh, wherein - the cutting device further comprises a portioning unit for the ready-to-eat portioning of edible fruit flesh, wherein the portioning unit is set up to cut the hollow-cylindrical intermediate product, prepared by the separating unit, into portions, - the cutting device is formed to cut off the ends of the pineapple to be prepared in the form of end caps by means of a top-and-tail blade, characterized in that - the cutting device, comprising the separating unit and the portioning unit, is oriented along a circular path, - wherein the cutting device, comprising the separating unit and the portioning unit, is arranged along a fruit support (page 11, lines 12 et seq.), and - wherein the fruit support is formed in such a way that the pineapple can be moved, seen in conveying direction, from the top-and-tail blade to the end of the cutting device on a single plane. - a receiving device for receiving a pineapple in the device, - a drive with a driver for moving a pineapple to be prepared in conveying direction from the receiving device to a cutting device, and - a cutting device for separating the skin and the core from edible fruit flesh of the pineapple, wherein the cutting device comprises a separating unit for separating the skin and the core from edible fruit flesh of the pineapple, wherein - the separating unit comprises a peeling-and-coring blade, which can be moved in a stroke movement, has two concentrically arranged cutting elements and is set up to remove the core of a pineapple and to peel the pineapple, and to prepare a hollow-cylindrical intermediate product of edible fruit flesh, wherein - the cutting device further comprises a portioning unit for the ready-to-eat portioning of edible fruit flesh, wherein the portioning unit is set up to cut the hollow-cylindrical intermediate product, prepared by the separating unit, into portions, - the cutting device is formed to cut off the ends of the pineapple to be prepared in the form of end caps by means of a top-and-tail blade, characterized in that - the cutting device, comprising the separating unit and the portioning unit, is oriented along a circular path, - wherein the cutting device, comprising the separating unit and the portioning unit, is arranged along a fruit support (page 11, lines 12 et seq.), and - wherein the fruit support is formed in such a way that the pineapple can be moved, seen in conveying direction, from the top-and-tail blade to the end of the cutting device on a single plane.