In addition to the hands-on cooking menu your team will create, we offer a selection of professional activities to enhance your experience and to foster team building which includes problem solving, organizational skills, creativity and being able to capitalize on individual talents and experiences. These activities are available exclusively in our Executive Culinary Team Building Events.

Recipe Puzzle
Each participant will be given one or more steps in a recipe. Working together the team will put the recipe in order, develop a list of ingredients and equipments and also identify any red herring instructions. Ideal for groups who have to troubleshoot problems.

Recipe for Success
The team will prepare a basic Gantt-style chart indicating the order and overlap of preparing the different portions of their menu. This activity reinforces the concepts of early and late starts, critical path and deployment of resources. Ideal for project management professionals.

Baking Blind
Working in sub-teams of 3, one participant will be blindfolded while the others instruct that participant through a series of culinary tasks. (This activity does not require working at a stove or handling knives!) The two instructing participants will
have to coordinate ad hoc to direct the blindfolded participant. Ideal for teams that want to improve communication skills.

Recipe Hotline
Remember the childhood game called Telephone? The chef instructor will relay a simple recipe – both ingredients and directions – to the first participant. That participant will relay to the next and so on. The last participant will tell everyone out loud what he/she was told and see if was communicated accurately. Sound silly? Give it a try! Also ideal for communication skills and teams who want to be able to turn on a dime.

Cooking Campaign
Several participants are selected at random to choose from possible recipes as a bonus to the existing menu. Each participant must make an excellent case for that recipe to the rest of the team. The team will make its choice based on which it feels is the best campaign. Ideal for sales and marketing professionals.

Mystery Basket
An assortment of ingredients will be given to the team with one specific ingredient being designated as a must-use item. The team must develop an original preparation, document the steps and name the recipe along with a restaurant-style
byline. Ideal for teams that want to be creative.

Picture Perfect
A basic recipe is given to the team to prepare with options for plating and presenting. The team will apply its creativity to make the food look spectacular on a plate. Ideal for designers, engineers and other creative professionals.

Culinary Countdown
Certain recipes lend themselves to being handed off from one participant to another. An example is making homemade pasta. The first participant would make the dough, the second would knead it and the third would roll and cut it. Participants are given tasks as opposed to entire recipes to do their part in a given amount of
time. Ideal for professionals who work on time management.

Mise-en-Place Madness
Mise-en-Place is the French culinary term for “putting everything in its place”. When you select this activity, you may find your recipe trays less organized than usual. Certain ingredients may be on the wrong trays for example. The team will work together to identify ingredients (think you know coriander from cardamom?) and get the ingredients placed correctly before cooking can begin. Ideal for professionals who want to work on organizational skills.