TEAM BUILDING

Louisiana Culinary Institute (LCI) can create and personalize team building workshops or viewing demonstrations for your company, organization, or special event. 

These workshops can assist in promoting teamwork, basic skills, strategy, use of resources and more.  These events are a lot of fun and bring everyone together.

Our professionally trained staff and Chef Instructors will assist in these activities. 

LCI can create cooking competitions, hands-on cooking classes, culinary challenges, personal development, menu development, time management and more.  These events can be held at our state-of-the-art facility, or we can plan a personal event at your company or place of business. 

For more information about corporate or team building events, please contact:

Charlie Ruffolo
Public Affairs  

225-769-8820

Charlie@LouisianaCulinary.com

Deliciously Fun Corporate Team Building Events

Our Chef Instructors and staff will create an unforgettable corporate team building event that will be water cooler chatter for a long time.  Our team building/cooking events are perfect for celebrating company achievements, entertaining clients, rewarding employees, welcoming new recruits, or just letting off some steam.

Our Chef Instructors and staff can create all types of cooking competitions, including Iron-Chef style, menu devolvement, time management (quick-fire challenge), and more.  We also provide hands-on cooking classes, cooking demonstrations, food accompaniment to a meeting space, and more.

An example of our signature corporate team building event begins with your group arriving to tasty hors d'oeuvres and refreshing beverages.  Everyone will be revved up and ready for a few hours of food and fun.

Your group will then slip on their hats and aprons.  Please remember to wear closed-toe, non-slip shoes.  Then, the group will be divided into teams, each of which will whip up (with the guidance of our talented chef instructors) a multi-course meal incorporating the evening's secret ingredient.  This fun, head-to-head competition ends with one group being crowned the evening’s cook-off champion.

And, of course, once the cooking is finished everyone is invited to sit down, relax, and enjoy their culinary creations.  When your 3 hour event is over, each guest leaves with new cooking skills, a full belly, bragging rights, and memories of a great time.

Cooking team building events can be hosted for groups of 10 to 100 people at our facility. Or, we can accommodate for more at a rented venue or off site location. 

Menu

If you choose our signature event, each team will work with its Chef Instructor to design and cook a multi-course menu, from scratch.  Therefore, the final dishes that will be served will vary, but will always consist of the following courses:

·         appetizer course: salad (prepared during the competition)
·         entree course: protein plus vegetable and/or starch side (prepared during the competition)
·         dessert course: something tasty and usually decadent ( depending on time, prepared by our team)

Should you choose any other type of event, LCI work with your group to plan a delicious menu in advance. 

Let us know, in advance, of any dietary restrictions and/or food allergies your guests may have so that we can ensure those guests are taken care of, and, of course, well fed. 

Pricing

Our signature cooking competitions are priced at $90-$150 per guest excluding venue and party rentals.

In addition, events include non-alcoholic beverages (water, tee, coffee, etc) and choice of hors d'oeuvres that will be served to your group upon arrival to the event.  

How it Works

All team building events are available Monday through Friday.  Please know that we prefer to schedule these events on a Friday or late afternoon/evening during the week.

In order to host your very own deliciously fun and memorable team building event, just follow these simple steps below: