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Executive Welcome
For executives beginning a new professional and personal chapter in Munich.
Personally hosted and individually arranged around their interests, available time and personal situation. Partners can naturally be included.
Corporate Experiences & Welcome Services
Great onboarding shouldn’t stop at the office door.
A new job often means so much more than just joining a new company. For international employees and executives, it also means arriving in a new city, a new country and an entirely new cultural environment.
Companies invest considerable time and care in introducing new colleagues to their organisation, their teams, their responsibilities and the respective corporate culture.
But there is another part of arriving that begins outside the office.
Understanding the place you now live in. Meeting its people. Discovering how they spend their time, how they communicate, connect with each other, what they eat, how they celebrate and which traditions and stories have shaped the culture around them.
At Munich Culinary, we believe:
A new culture is better understood when it’s experienced.
That is why we create personally hosted Corporate Experiences and Welcome Services that help international employees, executives, partners, families and teams discover Munich and Bavaria through local food, conversation, people, traditions, stories and shared experiences.
Corporate onboarding introduces the company.
We help you introduce the place around it.
Why we believe in this
Starting a new job and arriving in a new place are two different processes.
Six cities. One language — and six very different ways of arriving.
- Münster
- Cologne
- Frankfurt
- Berlin
- Munich
- Zurich
During my professional career, I have had to start again in a new city several times. Even when the language was almost the same, everyday life could feel remarkably different.
Dialects, food, humour, traditions, social habits and regional identities changed. And with every new employer, another layer was added: a new corporate culture, new expectations and a new way of working together.
A good corporate onboarding programme can introduce a new employee to the company, its people, its values and the way it works. But understanding the city and culture around it takes something else: curiosity, encounters, conversations and experiences.
That personal experience is the idea behind our Corporate Experiences at Munich Culinary.
Alexander Schmitt
Founder, Munich Culinary
A different kind of cultural onboarding
Some things are easier to understand around a table than on a PowerPoint slide.
Culture becomes easier to understand when you experience it: over dinner, at a local market, through a traditional custom or simply by seeing how people spend time together.
Food · Conversation · Humour · Traditions · Stories · People
These are universal languages almost everyone understands. They create natural opportunities to talk about everyday life, regional identity, traditions, social connections and the ways people communicate and live together.
There is rarely one simple answer. That is why we do not teach cultural stereotypes. We provide context and create the environment for genuine conversations about life and work in Munich, Bavaria and Germany.
Ways we can help
Different occasions. One idea: helping people arrive, connect and feel welcome.
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Cultural Onboarding
A personal introduction to the environment beyond the office.
Through food, traditions, history and everyday culture, we provide international employees with context for the place in which they now live and work.
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Partners & Families
A new job may belong to one person. A new life rarely does.
Welcome Experiences can include partners and families — helping them discover everyday life, social connections and what living in Munich might actually feel like.
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Temporary Assignments
A compact introduction for people whose time in Munich may be limited.
We help international employees and executives understand the city and culture around them — and make more of the time they have here.
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Team & Connection
Teams do not only build relationships in meeting rooms.
Shared food, places and experiences create natural conversation and genuine time together.
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International Guests & Clients
Make Munich part of your company’s hospitality.
Personally hosted experiences for colleagues, clients and business partners who should see more than the usual sights.
Why it matters
Welcome is more than a gesture.
Companies invest significantly in finding the right people and helping them succeed professionally.
A thoughtful welcome adds another message:
We don’t just want you to work here.
We want you to feel welcome.
Curiosity instead of uncertainty.
Context instead of assumptions.
Conversation instead of distance.
Welcome · Orientation · Appreciation · Connection · Belonging
Why Munich Culinary
You take care of your people.
We let them experience the day-to-day culture.
Creating a genuinely personal experience takes more than making a restaurant reservation. It takes the right places, thoughtful timing, reliable coordination and someone who brings all the elements together.
Munich Culinary combines local knowledge, cultural context, hospitality and mobility in one service — from the first idea to personal hosting on the day.
One local partner
Personally selected places and genuine local knowledge.
One point of contact
From initial planning to personal hosting.
Full service
Reservations, tickets, coordination and mobility.
Individually adaptable
Built around your people, your occasion and your objectives.
Our Corporate Experiences
Proven experiences. Adapted to your people.
Our Signature Experiences provide the starting point for many Corporate Experiences.
Experience 01
Munich Beer & Brotzeit
A personal introduction to Munich through beer culture, food, markets, history and the social role of the Wirtshaus.
Best for
Cultural Onboarding · Welcome · Small Teams
Experience 02
Munich Wirtshaus & Bar Evening
A relaxed evening through two sides of Munich — authentic Wirtshaus culture, an excellent dinner and a carefully selected bar.
Best for
Team & Connection · International Colleagues · Guests
Experience 03
Starnberg Lake Escape
A personally hosted day outside the city combining landscape, stories, regional food and Munich’s special relationship with Lake Starnberg.
Best for
Executive Welcome · Partners · Leadership Teams
Experience 04
Neuschwanstein Private
A full day in the Bavarian Alps combining King Ludwig II, Bavarian history, spectacular landscape and a carefully selected dinner.
Best for
Executives · International Guests · Clients
Tailored to your people
Because no two arrivals are the same.
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A US executive + partner
A personal Executive Welcome introducing both to Munich and the life around it.
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Six international specialists
A Cultural Onboarding Experience adapted to their backgrounds, assignment and relevant topics.
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An international leadership team
Shared time outside the office, designed around conversation, connection and Munich.
Our Signature Experiences can be adapted to the people, occasion and objectives involved. Where needed, we coordinate with HR, People & Culture or the responsible business team and develop an individual programme around relevant backgrounds, interests and company-specific themes.
The objective is not to turn an experience into a seminar.
It is to make the experience more relevant to the people taking part.
Your occasion. Our local knowledge.
You do not need to build the day from scratch.
We take care of the rest.
Let’s create the right welcome
Tell us who is arriving.
Whether you are welcoming a new executive, helping an international employee and their partner settle into Munich, bringing a new team together or hosting an important client, we would be pleased to create the right experience with you.
Tell us about the people, the occasion and what you would like them to take away from their time with us. We will personally suggest an approach that fits your organisation and your guests.
Munich · Bavaria · The Alps
