CORPORATE EVENTS
Think outside the box and consider Ann Arbor Cooks for your next corporate event. We provide a wonderful space for unique opportunities to entertain clients, employees, and new recruits, as well as hands-on team building for your company or department.
TEAM BUILDING COOKING CLASSES
For your next corporate team building event, join us at Ann Arbor Cooks for a unique experience that will have your employees or clients talking — a hands-on, full participation cooking class. What better way to develop relationships and improve planning, communication, and organization skills than creating a custom-designed menu while building team morale working in a relaxed, fun-filled atmosphere. Using the kitchen as the gathering place and cooking as the methodology for teaching, events at Ann Arbor Cooks teach your employees valuable skills through the universal language of food, and that are applicable in your organization, regardless of industry.
We offer 2 options for team building:
- CLASSIC FORMAT: this session is 3 hours in length and begins with light hors d’oeuvres and a self-service bar to greet your guests. After a short mingling time, your group will break up into smaller teams – each responsible for different parts of your meal. Each team will work together to complete their tasks. Additionally, all teams must work together, such that the timing of the meal actually works! At all times, a highly-capable staff will be at arms-length of all teams to provide the necessary assistance. As the meal comes together, our staff will help plate everything so that your group can sit down together and enjoy the fruits of their labor! There is social time built into the beginning and the end of the event, which is helpful if you would like to have dedicated time for a speech or presentation. Classic team building sessions typically start at $75/person and require a minimum of 10 participants. We can certainly accommodate smaller groups.
- ABBREVIATED DAYTIME FORMAT: this session is 2 hours in length, and the cooking begins the moment your group arrives! Your group will break up into smaller teams – each responsible for different parts of your meal. Each team will work together to complete their tasks. Additionally, all teams must work together, such that the timing of the meal actually works! At all times, a highly-capable staff will be at arms-length of all teams to provide the necessary assistance. As the meal comes together, our staff will help plate everything so that your group can sit down together and enjoy the fruits of their labor! Our abbreviated daytime team building sessions typically start at $65/person, are for between 8-24 participants, and are held in a 2-hour timeframe between 10am -4pm.
AMATEUR ‘IRON CHEF’ COMPETITIONS
A little friendly competition never hurt anyone, right?! Challenge your co-workers or clients to an epic culinary battle in the Ann Arbor Cooks kitchen! A full range of options exists to customize your competition based on the experience level of your cooks. Bring your best knife skills and culinary know-how as you take on the competition in a lively cook-off! And don’t forget to bring your friends, family and co-workers to cheer you on to victory!
PRIVATE DINNER PARTIES
Perhaps cooking instruction is not appropriate for your specific event, but rather you are looking for a private dinner setting where noise is not a factor, privacy is respected, and a first rate meal is a must. Ann Arbor Cooks offers just the venue for that. These dinner events are custom-designed and can be as interactive as you like — a Chef’s Table, where we do the cooking in front of you and you are engaged throughout the meal, or completely private and uninterrupted.
DESIGN YOUR OWN EVENT
Have a great idea for a cooking/eating event that you don’t see here? Design your very own! Contact us for more details.