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Team Building Challenge
Food is the perfect medium for bringing people together. By cooking, teams can discover the ingredients for successful and effective performance.
Menus
Our menus follow national and international trends as we stay atop of the culinary field, all the while creating an opportunity to learn new skills and acquire new tastes.
Team Building Menus:
- The Wine Tasting Challenge
- Iron Chef Style Challenge
- Ice Cream Mix-Ins Challenge
- Ice Sculpting Challenge
- Blind Fold Challenge
- And custom designed menus to accommodate your goals and budget.
We understand everyone's needs are different; we will work with you to create the perfect event for your group.
Skills to Be Learned and Team Work to Be Accomplished
Each team fellow must complete their portion of the meal in the allocated time span, as the group will all dine at the same time. Teams must execute their mission and coordinate to the completion to their missions.
How will your team benefit?
- Reduced barriers of communication
- Recognition that no task is so trivial to not be important
- Increased tolerance and acceptance of different work styles
- Discovering new skills, opening up new avenues for skill sharing and career development
What is Team Building?
A team is a group of people working together toward a common goal. Team building is the process of enabling that group of people to reach their goal.
When do you need Team Building?
Team building is a useful exercise when you are confronted with managerial challenges or objectives.
What are the advantages of Team Building?
Team building can improve motivation, cohesiveness and productivity in your group.
Team building with food is a natural fun opportunity for your corporate team leaders and employees to enhance their job achievement skills. Chef Donald McMillan, CEC, AAC, has created the ultimate team building exercises that will compliment every corporate infrastructure. What is more natural that enjoying a well cooked meal especially when your team completed their culinary mission successfully?
Following is a list of what is accomplished with our Culinary Team Building Challenge:
Entertainment - Communication - Problem Solving
Evaluating Results - Prioritization - Innovation - Meeting Deadlines
Some of our clients
- Sara Lee
- Pepsi-Cola
- R.J. Reynolds
- Volvo
- Wake Forest University
"Food is the prefect medium for bringing people together regardless of cultural and social barriers. Allow us to help your team become more harmonious and results driven using our proven method of culinary team building" - Chef Donald McMillan, CEC, AAC.
A note about Chef Donald McMillan, CEC, AAC, Chef Donald McMillan is an ACF Certified Executive Chef and a fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Chefs. The honor society of the American Culinary Federation (ACF), Academy Fellows demonstrate the highest standards of professionalism in the organization, society and industry. He has taught cooking classes for over 22 years and has owned and operated two gourmet restaurants, a large catering company and a cooking school with a gourmet food and equipment store. He has taught over 40 chef apprentices who are presently employed as culinarians in restaurants and hotels around the nation. Chef McMillan has visited over 50 countries, learning first hand the uniqueness of each culture and its cuisine and has finished his first cookbook.
Chef Don has been featured on many television broadcast shows
in the United States.
A list of some of the shows include:
- WXII News Channel 12 the NBC Affiliate featured Chef Don
with a weekly noon cooking show "Monday's Menu" and on Back
Yard Grilling during the evening news broadcast. The shows
started in 1986 and still continue. "Southern Outdoors"
on Fox Sports South featuring his recipes for 26 shows each
year for 2006 and 2007.
- "Celebrate! Christmas with Maya Angelou" on the Hallmark Channel in 2006.
- "Rick & Bubba Show" on Tuner South featuring Tailgating recipes for shows in 2005/2006.
- "Home Plate" on Turner South featuring his recipes along with Chef Marvin
Woods for two shows 2005/2006
- "Iconoclast" with Dave Chappelle & Maya Angelou on the Sundance Channel in 2006
Corporate Team Building
The Culinary Team Building Challenge is an effective way to build trust and improve communication between co-workers. We work together, have fun and build relationships between co-workers.
Our Culinary Team Building Events bring co-workers together to improve communication, hone problem-solving skills, build morale and have fun. Each person contributes their own personal skills to make great food together as part of a team and this becomes the focus for sharing, responsibility and making the most of each person's individual skills. All teams work toward a common goal from prepping the food using tools of the trade, cooking the food with precise timing and plating the food with an eye for appealing excellence.
Whether you're looking for an hors' d'oeuvres party, a sit-down or buffet meal, or a competitive "Iron Chef" style cook-off, our Culinary Team Building Challenge offers you a choice to customize your hands-on culinary experience for Corporate Team Building.
Our Culinary Team Building Challenge Provides:
- Coaching skills that will be enhanced during our Culinary Team Building Challenge. Communication, use of good judgment, utilizing available resources.
- Motivation, encouraging everyone to give more than 100%.
- Creating your fellow members into a cohesive team using planning and strategy techniques to creating a platform for success.
- Recognize team members abilities and talents and channel them to success.
- Extensive menu selection using Chef Don's repertoire of his national and international recipes on file. We will provide a menu that will challenge every team member.
- Flexibility - Our Culinary Team Building Challenge can be created within your own facility, any banquet room or private home.
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