Alfons Schuhbeck, born 1949 in Traunstein / Upper Bavaria, graduated his apprenticeship and traveling years in Salzburg, Geneva, Paris, London and Munich. To the stations after the hotel school Bad Reichenhall include such prestigious addresses as Feinkost Käfer, Alois Dallmayr and the restaurant Aubergine by Eckart Witzigmann. In 1980 he took over the parental Kurhausstüberl in Waging am See and was awarded a Michelin star in 1983 for his culinary skills, which he keeps since then.