Cooking Team Building Simulations

Facilitated Business Team Building with Interactive Cooking

IMPORTANT Please note: We do not specialize in
strictly recreational cooking events.

We offer facilitated business team building to improve
business performance and team effectiveness.

From cooking s'mores over an open campfire to barbecuing meat for dinner and preparing breakfast under the desert sky, team cooking challenges have long been a popular feature of our race events and survival team building retreats.

By popular demand, we have teamed up with chefs and cooking schools at featured destinations. We are pleased to bring you a number of business simulations involving cooking challenges for your next executive retreat, business team building session or luxury cooking event.

We are a Toronto based management consulting firm that specializes in facilitated business simulations. Some of them include a cooking component in Canada (Toronto - GTA, Niagara-on-the Lake, Muskokas, Montreal), Jamaica, Dubai, Oman, France, Paris, Italy

IMPORTANT

Please note: We are not a cooking school.

We are a business consulting firm that offers facilitated business simulations that include:

• a briefing drawing parallels between working as a team to create a great meal and team effectiveness in a business environment
• an interactive cooking challenge that involves competing in teams to prepare a full gourmet meal
• debriefing to uncover how the skills that lead to your success in the kitchen can be used to boost performance at work
• an upbeat interactive keynote over dessert to highlight best practices

We don't specialize in strictly recreational cooking class for small teams.

We do organize and offer luxury cooking escapades for teams of all sizes and recreational cooking for groups of 75 or more.

For other business simulations available globally,
please also see "International Team Building" (on the side menu).

Outline

• Overview of Our Approach
  
  
• What is Unique
  About Our Approach
  
  
• What we Don't Offer
  
  
• What we Offer
  
  
• Price Chart - Facilitated Team Building
  
  
• Price Chart - Team Recreation
  
  
• Payment Terms

Business Simulations

• Restaurant Inc. Simulation

• Next Great Chefs Simulation

Just for Fun

• Inspired by Iron Chef

• Demo and Dine

  Luxury Gourmet Cooking Escapade

2 - 3 Night Niagara-on-the-Lake
Gourmet Cooking Escapade & Meeting Package

Overview of Our Typical Cooking Team Building Simulation

Make sure you are comparing apples to apples!

We are a business consulting firm with expertise in the design and facilitation of business simulations. Our team building sessions are jointly conducted by an experienced chef and a professional business facilitator.

We specialize in facilitated team building simulations and some of our programmes include cooking.

What is Unique About Our Approach

Interactive Team Event
(Just for Fun)

• Pre-Event Planning
• Phase 1: Team Icebreaker
• Phase 3: Interactive Gourmet Cooking Challenge
• Phase 4: Relaxing and Dining
• Phase 5: Judging & Prizes
• Optional Business Meeting (Not facilitated)

Facilitated Team Building Simulation
(Includes Facilitation & Debriefing)

• Pre-Event Planning & Styles Survey to Form Teams
• Phase 1: Team Icebreaker
• Phase 2: Pre-Briefing to Link Cooking Simulation to Business
• Menu Design (Optional)
• Shopping Challenge (Optional)
• Restaurant Decor Challenge (Optional)
• Phase 3: Interactive Gourmet Cooking Challenge
• Phase 4: Relaxing and Dining
• Phase 5: Judging, Feedback & Prizes
• Phase 6: Debriefing
• Phase 7: Business Application Exercises
• Optional Business Meeting (Can be facilitated)

By contrast, cooking schools offer recreational cooking conducted by professional chefs that includes only Phases 3 - 5. Often, what is pitched as team building is a cooking demonstration with little team interaction.

Partial Client List

Facilitated Team Building

• Novo Nordisk Canada
• EMD Serono
• TELUS

Interactive Team Events

• Rogers Communications (Fido)
• Mayhew and Associates
• Sidra Capital (Saudi Arabi) - in Dubai
• Baxter - Dubai

"The facilitator was very interesting. Her comments were helpful to improve way to better work as a team. It was a lot of fun."

Jeannette Heeralal, EMD Serono Canada

"The event was a blast. I enjoyed it very much. Great job."

Dwight Pessin, Mayhew and Associates

"The ambiance was great and the facilitator was helpful and her comments were positive yet constructive."

Julie Morgan, EMD Serono Canada

For Serious Inquiries Only

We would be pleased to handle your inquiry, check availability of dates and venues and send a proposal if:

• a budget has been allocated
• you have an approximate idea of how many people will be attending
• you are definitely ready to select and book a service provider within 5 - 10 business days of receiving our quote

We will get back to you with a quote within 48 hours to 5 business days of receiving your request.

We require a $500 retainer before detailed, customized agendas are developed and any hotels or other venues are contacted on your behalf. [Why?] This will be deducted from your fees if you book your session with us.

If you aren't in a position to select a service provider and book your retreat, team building session or event within 5 - 10 business days of receiving our quote, we invite you to explore our website. You will find information about our services and pricing on our website. When you are in a position to make a decision and select a service provider, please contact us.

Request Quote by E-mail or On-Line Form

What is Unique About Our Approach

While some of our competitors provide appetizers or light snacks that you "nibble as you go", participants in our sessions sit down, relax, and enjoy a FULL 3 or 4 course meal at the end of their session.

We offer a unique experience with:

• FULLY CATERED GOURMET MEAL after your cooking challenge
• gourmet food
• award winning chefs who have worked at some of the finest establishments WORLDWIDE
• STUNNING locations
• observers to record team dynamics and give you feedback (additional charge)
• a business facilitator to debrief your experience and link it to the realities of your business

Make sure you know what you
are getting for your investment!

We offer a luxury team building experience,
not your standard fare.

Accordingly, we are NOT the lowest cost provider.

What we Offer

Our main specialities are:

• A facilitated business team building simulation with debriefing and links to business
• A facilitated business team building simulation with debriefing, links to business and observers to provide feedback re: team dynamics and links to your business

We offer the following business simulations that involve interactive cooking challenges in teams:

• Next Great Chefs Inspired
• Restaurant Inc.

We bundle our expert business facilitation with the skills of professional chefs to flawlessly execute business simulations that involve cooking. We provide the business facilitation and event planning services. The chefs provide the instruction and coaching about cooking.

No matter which business simulation you select, your facilitator will guide you through a structured process to discover how your experience in the kitchen applies to business. At the end of the session, you'll have a chance to relax and bond with your team over an exquisite gourmet meal catered by or prepared by your team under the supervision of award-winning chefs.

Just for fun we offer:

• Iron Chef Inspired
• Demo and Dine

We also offer:

• Interactive team cooking events as an add-on to an executive or corporate retreat or incentive trip that we are planning and facilitating for you
• Interactive team cooking events as an add-on to a larger corporate event that we are planning and organizing for you
• luxury, gourmet cooking escapades for teams of all sizes
• Interactive team events (just for fun) with catered gourmet meals. Please note we do need to be compensated for our time and service so expect to pay more than you would by going directly to a cooking school.

Pleased Participants

"Expert cooking instruction. Great Team building event."

Pat DiFrancesco, Novo Nordisk Canada

"Enjoyed the participation that was encouraged. Very knowledgeable chefs. Did a great job teaching and explaining. They involved everyone."

Glen Marsh, Mayhew and Associates

"I could not thing of a better way to work with my teammates! I couldn’t see us being happier and having more fun at work! Plus the food was great!"

Mirella Caporafe, EMD Serono Canada

Highlights

Available:

Group Size:

All Year

• Business Simulation: 10 - 200+
• Recreational Events: Minimum Group Size of 75 Except at Select Locations

We have done sessions
with over 225 participants

Time Required:

Locations:

• Restaurant Inc. (1 1/2 Days)
• Other Sessions (1/2 Day)

Canada (Toronto, Niagara-on-the Lake, York Region), Jamaica, Dubai, Oman, Saudi Arabia

Jamaica: Gourmet Cooking Challenge on the Beach

Dubai: We use a 3 story restaurant overlooking the Palm Islands.

Oman: Kitchen Olympics - 6 teams, 6 challenges, 1 winner in 2 1/2 hours

Saudi Arabia: We can organize strictly recreational events

Skills/Competencies:

• Time Management
• Executing Projects in Short Timeframes
• Marketing Strategy (Restaurant Inc. Only)
• Creativity
• Communication

Programme Details

Please contact us and let us check
availability before you lock in your dates.

Gourmet Culinary Team Building sells out fast.

At times we can book cooking team building sessions on short notice. We will do our best, however, these team building simulations are popular. We highly recommend that you:

• book cooking team building at least 6 weeks in advance (8 - 12 weeks in advance for Christmas season bookings)
• let us check availability of venues BEFORE you lock in your dates
• Provide a few options for dates.

Book Early to Avoid Disappointment.

Request Quote by E-mail or On-Line Form

Upgrades Available

We can upgrade these team building simulations by:

• transporting you and your team to the winery, resort or 5 star restaurant by helicopter, private plane or limousine
• upgrading the decor using chair covers, crystal, china, and fine linen

We are based in Toronto, Canada. We regularly travel to other parts of Canada to deliver team building sessions.

We require 1 night's accomodation prior to your retreat so that we can finalize all logistics with the venue and set-up for your arrival. If we are driving to destinations more than 2 hours from Toronto, we require round trip transportation or an additional night of accommodation after your retreat is over so that we can avoid night and winter driving after a full day of facilitation. Round trip transportation will also be required if winter driving conditions are poor.

More Pleased Participants

"It was a really great team building event. Worked and collaborated together. Fun."

Avril Murray, Nordisk Canada

"It was excellent and very relaxing. I enjoyed the team building."

Claudia Paez, Generalist, EMD Serono Canada

"Good experience for meeting people when you are new at a company. Lots of fun. Great job."

Sunaina Mann, Mayhew and Associates

What we Don't Offer

We are not a cooking school.

We do not offer low budget cooking demonstrations or cooking classes.

Interactive Team Event (Recreational) Price Chart (Per Person)

• Includes Catered Gourmet Lunch or Dinner at all Locations Except Montreal & NOTL.
• Excludes alcholic beverages & taxes.

For small teams, it is HIGHLY reccommended that you offer your session jointly
with another department to reduce the per person price.

Facilitated Cooking Team Building Price Chart (Per Person)

• Includes Catered Gourmet Lunch or Dinner at all Locations Except Montreal & NOTL.
• Excludes alcholic beverages & taxes.

For small teams, it is HIGHLY reccommended that you offer your session jointly
with another department to reduce the per person price.

For an additional fee, we can arrange transportation to and from the cooking studio by limousine or luxury shuttle bus.

Payment Terms

• $500 retainer required before availability of venues checked
• 60% due within 5 – 7 business days of booking
• Balance due 1 calendar month prior to your session

Small Groups (30 or less)

• $500 retainer required before availability of venues checked
• 100% payment due at time of booking (within 5 business days of your inquiry)

Due to the logistics involved in pulling together these simulations, a 10% surcharge will be levied for all cooking events paid for less than one calendar month prior to the session.

Conditions:

• A deductible retainer of $500 is required before we contact any venues on your behalf.

  For all small groups and sessions booked with less than 6 weeks notice, 100% payment
  required at time of booking