Apply creativity for a great summer event.As the temperature rises outside, summer fever spreads through offices all over Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , and employees pine for the outdoors and long weekends. Let the team of experts at Wolfgang Puck Wolfgang Johann Puck (born Wolfgang Johann Topfschnig on July 8, 1949) is an Austrian-American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and businessman based in Los Angeles. Catering share a few pointers on everyone's favorite summertime activities to help build morale and a stronger sense of community in the workplace. Below are some of their creative suggestions to get you started: Classic summer fun Invite your staff to a company family day at your local park. Break from the typical 9-5 weekday and plan an afternoon with you and your staff's families. Arrange for a softball or volleyball tournament, have t-shirts made with the company logo and whatever creative names your staff have chosen for their team. This can be inspirational year round--hire an entertainment company to set up games, rides, cotton candy machines, novelty ice creams and authentic carnival hotdogs. Take me out to the ball game (buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks) ... Plan on a slow day. Take tour team to the ballpark for an afternoon game. Sometimes the best thing to do when you have been working tirelessly on a presentation or a project is to shake things up and facilitate a positive workplace. Pre-order the specialty foods which you know will make a homerun--candy bars or cracker jacks with your company logo. Happy as a clam Show your staff your appreciation by bringing a clambake to your office. Hire a chef or your favorite restaurant to make your staff feel as though they have "gone fishin'": put a whole lot of drinks into ice buckets, steam up some clams, Shanghai lobster with spicy ginger curry sauce Noun 1. curry sauce - allemande sauce with curry powder and coconut milk instead of stock sauce - flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food and crispy crisp·y adj. crisp·i·er, crisp·i·est 1. Firm but easily broken or crumbled; crisp. 2. Having small curls, waves, or ripples. spinach or Hong-Kong style, Butterflied Baked Shrimp, or tray pass individual Bay Scallop scallop or pecten, marine bivalve mollusk. Like its close relative the oyster, the scallop has no siphons, the mantle being completely open, but it differs from other mollusks in that both mantle edges have a row of steely blue "eyes" and , Shrimp, and Ahi Tuna Ceviche ce·vi·che or se·vi·che n. Raw fish marinated in lime or lemon juice with olive oil and spices and served as an appetizer. [American Spanish, from Spanish cebiche, fish stew, from in Tortilla Cups during the long, hot dry days of summer to refresh and reinvigorate employees that might otherwise be living for the weekend. If budget isn't an issue, rent a boat and take the staff on a daytrip to fish. Have a catering company meet the boat and cook up the bounty of fish for everyone while you and your employees enjoy a cold drink seaside. Pamper pam·per tr.v. pam·pered, pam·per·ing, pam·pers 1. To treat with excessive indulgence: pampered their child. 2. your staff.... Whether you decide to have the spa bus pull up outside of your office building or venture to the gym around the corner--as corporations focus shifts to be more socially responsible in the work place, encourage healthy living by offering your employees a free training session with spa lunch. Healthy employees work harder! Arrange a schedule with a convenient spa or health club offering your staff a 1/2 day package sponsored by the company with exercise, personal hygiene personal hygiene person n → Körperhygiene f and well-balanced nutritional classes or meal, have a nutritionist nu·tri·tion·ist n. One who is trained or is an expert in the field of nutrition. nutritionist Dietitian, see there give suggestions regarding on the go meals or foods to power your brain and help you focus. I scream, you scream ... we all scream for ice cream We All Scream for Ice Cream is an episode of The WB drama series, Charmed. Synopsis When Prue and Phoebe are lured into a nightmarish alternate dimension by a seemingly evil ice cream man, the girls mistakenly help demons and endanger an innocent. ... Hire a caterer or your favorite fast food company or ice cream truck to deliver to your office every Friday for the entire summer. Show your staff appreciation and prepare them for the upcoming quarter of hard work. Enrich your company culture By definition culture is all products of work and thought. Look for exhibitions which might evoke interesting conversations or might be stimulating at local Museums. Host a cocktail party and guided tour guided tour guide n → visite guidée; what time does the guided tour start? → la visite guidée commence à quelle heure? of the upcoming King Tut exhibition. Have a company family day at the Kidspace Museum in Pasadena complete with a pizza party, or at The Page Museum-La Brea Tar Pits. Whether you are organizing a clambake at the beach, a picnic in the park, or simply organizing the company softball team, remember as Wolfgang always says--"live, love, eat"--are all key. Clare Davis is Director of Brand Communications for Wolfgang Puck Catering. For more information, please contact her directly at 323-491-1250. |
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