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Juri Kraft is a trainee at the Weber butcher’s shop © Feinkost-Metzgerei Weber
The Weber butcher’s shop in Lenggries has been impressing for 50 years with its quality, respect for animals and special training for trainees – a family business with a heart!
The Weber delicatessen butcher shop in Lenggries is a second-generation family business that was founded 50 years ago and has now won multiple awards, with the third generation already working in the business. A total of 40 employees work here in the butchery, kitchen and sales.
The butcher team, led by owner Karl Weber, not only attaches great importance to product quality and hygiene: “Respect for the animal is also important to me,” explains Karl Weber. “If an animal has to die in order to serve as our food, it should at least experience species-appropriate husbandry and then a quick death in dignity – without long transports of animals for slaughter and without the torturous slaughter of the meat industry. I see that as our responsibility.”
Special support for trainees
The master butcher also sees the training of young people as a responsibility: “You are with us at a sensitive time. We can accompany them on the path from teenagers to young adults and impart knowledge and skills. And since they spend a lot of time with us, we are a bit like their second family.”
The trainees also enjoy good support: the pay is good, food and drink are free – and as a very special ‘treat’, the company even pays its trainees for their driving license!
The 17-year-old Elisabeth Achner from Wackersberg came here from middle school and is now in her third year of training to become a butcher shop saleswoman. She really enjoyed her internship at the Weber butcher’s shop and so she stayed on to do her apprenticeship. The working atmosphere is very familiar and the work is extremely varied. She enjoys selling the countless products and gaining expertise. But even more so is making platters or salads. And she loves the contact with customers. She finds relaxation in her free time in the mountains, but also as a children’s trainer in athletics.
Elisabeth Achner is learning the profession of a butcher shop saleswoman. © Feinkost-Metzgerei Weber
Future with pride and tradition
After graduating from high school, 20-year-old Juri Kraft even came from Namibia to complete his butcher training here! His family farms there. “We don’t have any real training for butchers. If someone can demonstrate German apprenticeship training, all options are open to them.”
After his training, Juri would like to take the master’s examination immediately before returning to Namibia. He loves the wide variety of sausages in Germany. A recommendation from a family friend brought him here. He keeps fit with Muay Thai (boxing), he relaxes by hunting and on Sundays he sometimes goes to the mountains.
Master Karl Weber is very satisfied with the trainees’ performance. Not only the butcher shop and specialist shop have been awarded numerous times for excellent quality; The trainees also received several awards for their achievements. And Karl Weber exemplifies it for young people: When you talk to him, he is full of enthusiasm for his industry and his company. So it’s no wonder that the trainees also do their jobs with pride and joy!
Contact
Weber delicatessen butcher shop
Karl Weber
Münchner Straße 2
83661 Lenggries
Bergwerkstr. 50
86971 Peiting
Tel. 08042/2578
Email: service@feinkost-metzgerei-weber.de
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