Your mission is to find a large group activity that’s engaging, fun, easy to organize, and fits in with your overall conference theme.
Our culinary team building programs bring people together as they create their own gourmet dining experience worthy of top class restaurants.
We ONLY provide culinary team building programs – we are not a cooking school, restaurant or caterer. Thousands of participants and hundreds of companies and organizations have acclaimed our programs since 1994.
We have the perfect solution that will kick your conference up a notch and address these and other critical needs:
"CEO Chef was able to handle our large group of 180 restaurant managers with ease. Our managers were exposed to new recipes and inventive ways of cooking and are still talking about the experience."
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Laurie H.
Director of Training
Apple America Group
(Largest Applebee's Franchisee)
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We come to you. We travel to wherever your meeting, conference, or convention happens to be.
We make better use of your client's time and money because we come to your meeting venue.
Because our program can be held in the same place where you hold your meeting, your client doesn’t have to rush off to another location for their team building program. This allows them to get more done, as well as save on travel and insurance costs.
You can also be more creative with a meeting budget, using money allocated to catering and travel in conjunction with team building funds.
If your group needs a bit of "fresh air", we can adapt our program to less traditional locations: wineries, museum, zoo, etc.
Safety first - we make sure your participants get the necessary skills to perform our programs safely and successfully.
We recognize many people's experience with food preparation extends only as far as reheating take-out leftovers.
All our programs begin with an orientation that includes safety and culinary skills. Our systems and program design have food safety features built in. We use disposable cutting sheets, aprons and gloves. Our trainers know how to deal with the unexpected.
You can rest easy knowing we take an active interest in keeping everyone happy and safe.
Our facilitators are experts in managing large groups
CEO Chef programs are different from other team building events using food.
Because our program leaders are primarily trainers and facilitators, you have people who know how to manage many people at once. This means participants reach the outcomes you want them to achieve, not just learning how to cook. (Of course, our trainers know culinary techniques as well....).
They are highly skilled at orchestrating large groups, and know how to hold their interest and encourage participation – all with an entertaining style and suitable flair!
Food is just the material we use to bring groups together. Our trainers add a bit of rockin’ music, whip up unbridled enthusiasm and "Voilà!" – you have a great event even culinary skeptics are blown away by!
We design and manage all the planning and logistics so you can sleep at night.
The only additional work you need to do is provide us with your meeting theme requirements and the objectives you wish to accomplish during your time with us.
We take over and work with the hotel’s catering and event planning staff to coordinate your event. You're copied on all communications we have regarding your event, so you're never out of the loop.
All that’s left for your group to do is show up and be ready for a great team building experience.
100% Participation: Your clients experience a highly interactive, inspiring, and (most of all) fun program for everyone.
Male and female, young and old, fit and couch potato, from Asia to Zimbabwe – everybody can and does enjoy taking part in a CEO Chef program. We know this is so – our participation rates always reach around the 100% mark. From time immemorial, cooking together has always encouraged involvement and brought people closer.
Even if participant’s cooking skills are limited to pushing a few buttons on a microwave, they will find a CEO Chef team building both fun and educational. Our clients are continually amazed at the quality and presentation of the gourmet meals their participants create without any previous cooking experience!
And, if there are any members with special physical challenges, they can fully participate in a CEO Chef program right along with the rest of the group.
Our programs are great for cross-cultural bonding, plus we have menus to suit the palate of participants from any culture.
Because you eat and enjoy the delicious food your teams creates, your team building program has a real purpose that impacts and motivates everyone to want to participate.
We specialize in serving the needs of large groups to 500+
Through our years of experience, we have honed our systems and processes from our humble beginnings where 35 participants was a stretch, to today where we are handling groups of 500 or more with ease and efficiency.
You'll also find our CEO Chef trainers are expert facilitators, as well as superb entertainers and presenters trained in dealing with the special needs of larger numbers of participants.
We know what it takes to put on a large culinary team building event – from planning, to production, to post-event evaluation.
We work with you to blend our activity seamlessly into your conference or event theme.
Working with us, you will be assigned a personal event manager from our team who will work with you closely to make sure your CEO Chef activity fits in seamlessly with your conference theme.
We’ll tailor the food, adjust the program script, help locate and source additional hand-outs or give-away items, be available for event planning team meetings and post-event de-brief meetings, and anything else you need from us to make your event a success.
We feature fast and furious "Iron Chef" type competitive and fantastic cooperative versions of our programs.
Are you looking to harness the competitive spirit of a room full of sales personnel? Maybe you just want a fun evening where everyone gets to know each other while participating in an enjoyable activity? We’ve got just the program for you!
We've also created a special "interactive entertainment" version of our program specifically designed for the needs of trade shows and
hospitality rooms.
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