Corporate Events

Entrees to Excellence: Culinary Team Building and Celebration Events

An executive's place is in the kitchen--at least when it comes to teambuilding. Leadership and teamwork are integral to every successful business. Discerning Taste’s Corporate Programs provide a delicious array of epicurean event services including Culinary Team Building, Corporate Wellness Programs, Lifestyle Incentives, and other dynamic ways to engage with food, wine, and culture as a catalyst for professional development and celebrations.

Our culinary workshops are not just cooking classes, each program combines corporate training with the culinary arts to improve team performance, group communication, and problem solving. Preparing food or planning an event, parallels the work environment in calling for resource and time management, specific task assignments, and coordination and communication between several parties. Cuisine is a great leveler; everyone is comfortable with it and we all need it for our sustenance. The idea is to be placed in a new environment and situations where one is given restricted time, limited resources, and new tools to create great results that you can transfer back to the workplace.

“When I found out we were going to make sushi and all the ingredients that go in a Japanese lunch box, I thought impossible. But at the end I saw all these beautiful morsels of food that we created in only a couple of hours and I thought, wow, if we could do this, anything was possible“ – Participant in Sushi Squad Program

Features & Benefits

• Facilitated by food experts and chefs
• Latest in gourmet trends and food culture
• State-of-the-art kitchens and beautiful locations
• Programs available around your schedule
• Client can select cuisine "theme" of choice
• Provides a new and exciting formula within a subject of interest for many people – fabulous gastronomy!
• Provides an opportunity for companies to actively promote the building of good relationships internally between staff and with clients
• Provides an opportunity for companies to make their staff feel appreciated
• Provides an opportunity for companies to make their clients feel appreciated

Objectives

• To provide a entertaining environment and pleasurable experience of team interaction which should naturally improve interactions between people and ultimately morale and motivation
• To foster a sense of belonging (to the group and employer), appreciation by the employer and motivation of the participant

Suitability

• Staff events
• Client events
• Supplier/partner events