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Paying to Cook is a New ‘Team Building’
Experience for Corporate Execs
Restaurant Startup & Growth

You know how corporate executives walk over hot coals or navigate through the desert with co-workers in order to create a sense of teamwork? Well, now there’s a new way to do it, and it’s something that you already do every day in your restaurant. Donning aprons and chef’s hats, executives in “cooking adventures” learn as much about group dynamics — sometimes more — than managers who attend traditional team-building programs. Creative Cooking School, founded by Catherine Margles, offers “enhanced culinary team building” to corporate executives.

“Companies from across the country are bringing groups in from the wilderness and steering them straight to the kitchen,” Margles said, adding that culinary team building provides an opportunity for group members to relax and build camaraderie. Culinary team-building events involve creating a gourmet meal under the supervision and expertise of the Creative Cooking School’s chef instructors along with team-building exercises. And of course, it’s also about fun. Lisa Korn, manager, Project Office/Customer Engineers for New York-based ClientLogic Corporation, said, “The time that we spent at your kitchen, making the meal, interacting with the chefs and each other proved very beneficial to us in our continued team-building efforts. The time spent in your environment truly gave each of us a much-needed break while introducing another ingredient to our team.”

Recent corporate clients for Culinary Team Building have included Bank of America, Carmax, Citibank/Citicorp, Del Webb Corporation, Eli Lilly, Ernst & Young, and Nike International. Culinary Team Building provides teams with a fun and nonthreatening opportunity to learn new and different ways to approach challenges.

Reprint Courtesy of Restaurant Startup & Growth

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