Business breakfasts are arranged, but more often a business lunch is preferred. Lunch with business colleagues generally involves social conversation. Do not discuss business during lunch or dinner unless your German host initiates the conversation. Business entertaining is usually done in restaurants. Spouses are generally not included in business dinners.
Nobody drinks at a dinner party before the host has drunk.
The host will raise his glass to the woman on his right and then toast to the health of the group. Thereafter, people may drink as they see fit. When toasting as a guest, hold the glass only at the stem, clink your glass with everyone near you at the table and say Prosit , then take a drink. Then look into the eyes of someone at your table and lift your glass just slightly, then bring your glass down to the table. A guest of honor is seated to the left of the hostess if it is a man and to the right of the host if it is a woman.