top tips for catering for office meetings
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Easy Catering for Office Meetings
If you are responsible for organising the food for regular office meetings, you
may spend time wondering about what you can do differently and what
options you can provide to cater for different tastes.
You may also be faced with the need to cater for specific food requirements,
which can be a challenge if catering is not your area of expertise. Here are
some useful tips for catering your next office meeting.
Here are our five top tips for stress-free catering for office meetings:
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1. Variety of foods
Sandwiches can be filled with creative, delicious ingredients so that they become far more
exciting than the usual ham and cheese or tuna mayo. Other options are baguettes, bagels
and wraps all filled with a variety of ingredients and can be designed to suit any taste.
Simple finger food options you could go for include handmade pastries, platters of cold
meats and cheese boards, and fresh fruit. Having beautifully presented platters of different
foods provides for a range of tastes and usually meets the needs of everyone who attends.
2. Improve productivity by staying in
If you tend to go out to a restaurant for a working lunch during a meeting, it is worth
considering providing food in your boardroom instead. If you offer great catering, your
office could provide a quieter venue that is more conducive to a working lunch and the
group of attendees is likely to be more productive.
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3. Check food requirements
Once you know who is attending the meeting, be sure to check whether anyone has
allergies or special dietary needs before arranging your office catering.
This is an important factor as external attendees with special requirements will be much
happier if they are well catered for. In the case of employees, this has the potential to boost
staff morale because they feel that their needs are being taken into account as well.
4. Don’t forget drinks
Sometimes meeting organisers are so busy thinking about the food that drinks get left to the
last minute or not even planned at all. It is good to provide a variety of drinks so that people
have a range of options instead of just water, coffee and tea, but this would really depend
on the type of meeting that you are organising and the people who are attending.
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5. Find a dependable corporate catering company
Planning catering can be stressful so if you organise office meetings and functions regularly,
you want a caterer who is dependable and will provide delicious food that satisfies everyone.
It is really about finding fabulous food that will relieve the meeting organiser of added
pressure around catering for everyone’s needs and still providing interesting and quality
food.
Having a caterer that specialises in office catering means that you have someone to call on
who is an expert in that area. A good corporate caterer will spend time with you organising
the menu if there are special requirements and will help you to provide sufficient food for the
number of guests.
To discuss how you can take the stress out of catering for your office meetings and functions,
contact North Fremantle catering company, The Black Truffle online. They are specialists in
corporate catering in the Fremantle area as well as home catering, party catering and
gourmet picnic hampers and gift hampers.