Corporate Team Building

Through Cooking Classes - What A Delicious Idea!

Team building through cooking is an alternative to rope climbing, golf outings and treasure hunts. It is an enjoyable opportunity to bring together employees from various departments in your organization, create an experience for them to meet and to work together as a team, and produce immediate and tangible results. Food has always been a perfect way to bring people together. By cooking together, teams can discover the ingredients for successful, effective performance. For example if the goal is to work on problem-solving skills, participants could be given all of the ingredients for a recipe, but not all of the instructions. However, most groups prefer more loosely structured sessions for groups that want to spend time together and have fun.

Prior Culinary Experience Not Required!

Let Viva Tastings Corporate Experience help your team of employees:

Develop organizational skills
Give and take direction effectively
Work toward common goals
Build confidence and morale
Adapt to changing environment
Sharpen communication skills
Dare to be creative
Have fun

Format

Your event will take place in our new catering kitchen with Karen Viva-Haynes, owner and chef of Viva Tastings and a culinary coach supervising your Team Members. Your 3 to 3 1/2 hour cooking class might begin with a 5 to 10 minute introduction by your own team leader or group head. Following this, you will be directed through the hands-on preparation of a beautiful and delicious gourmet tasting menu. Throughout this fun-filled and often challenging endeavor, you will be painlessly developing new techniques for working with your colleagues to achieve rewarding as well as delicious results. Following the food preparation you will sit down to enjoy the fruits of your labor with an appropriately selected wine. You can then discuss just how things worked out and how you might have approached your "work" differently to achieve better or more efficient results.

The experience is so enjoyable that it can also serve as a
reward to your team for a project well done.

Pricing

The base price* for an individual team building class is $1100.00. This includes up to 8 people. Each additional person is an additional $100.00. The maximum number of people is 14.

*The base price includes the venue, instruction, food, a glass of wine with the meal, labour and the Chef's expertise.

Payment Method

Check or Cash one week prior to the event

Other Charges may Include:

Beverages: Sodas, Mineral Waters and other Soft Drinks
Additional Wine and/or Champagne (special preferences to be requested prior to the event)

Call Viva Tastings at (416)-595-0636 to make arrangements for your Corporate Team Building Culinary event. Or, contact us by e-mail at karen@vivatastings.com.