The Purpose Kitchen - Cooking For Community

Effective teams work best together when working towards a common goal. That's why it's important to make sure everyone is on the same page and understands what you're trying to achieve. Get your team to cook for the charities so they can feed the most vulnerable. Together we cook, share and celebrate as a team. This will help keep your team engaged and motivated. Don't be surprised if you have team members who would like to travel the world, learn a new language, cook authentic foods or take beautiful photos. This will help foster a collaborative environment and build a strong connection between employees.

Corporate social responsibility has become an important business objective for businesses in many ways. Clients and team members want to know your business or organization they involved in and work to stand for their social and environmental commitments that align with their own. This is a  great way to share with your customers and celebrate your team's efforts. 

Together we will have the ability to help solve a social issue of today of homeless people's basic needs. Explore your team's true reasons for giving, make it a core part of your culture and encourage employees’ involvement with team building activities and plus we will give 10% of the money we collect from your team fee on behalf of you to the charity we support. Besides just being the right thing to do, giving brings positive energy to your team culture and boosts morale. It’s a way to better lives throughout our community, and it provides a greater purpose for the work your people do daily.

Teamwork and participation in community service activities can help to recognize top team members within the company and on social media. This allows companies to give back to their community. This also enhances its employer brand and creates team engagement and a sense of pride increasing employee retention and loyalty. Have a plan to make your Corporate Kindness Program fun, support the employees getting involved and make sure leaders participate. Some employees will be jazzed about participating, others won't be. To broaden and support participation, increase the stakes and make it fun. For example, create teams, make it into a competition and the winning team gets a prize, bragging rights.

Your group gets together to enjoy a hands-on cooking experience with plenty of entertainment to prepare a social cook-off party. This class is perfect for clients or work colleagues cooking together looking to ignite their culinary passions. This class would make a great gift to your clients' team or package for your employees. Located conveniently in Richmond, we are also only minutes from the Melbourne CBD and easily accessible by public transport. Our facility is a purpose-built space offering a range of hands-on and demonstration-style Vietnamese and Asian cooking classes to suit your event. Our training kitchen is fully equipped, using the latest induction cooking technology which is efficient and safe for you and your group. Group cooking classes can be personalized to suit your requirements. 

HIGHLIGHTS

• A fully interactive cooking session, everyone cooks together. 
• Each group will make enough food to feed 15-20 meals or people
• Can include friendly competitive pressure on the teams
• Explore fundamentals of cooking ingredients, spices and flavour profile
• Create a delicious meal to your palette then enjoy a homemade meal with complimentary beer and wine
• Chef led so there are no cooking disasters

THE MENU SAMPLE

We have worked with these menus as clients want to have frozen meals, however, we can get work with other menus as well. Ask us for a menu with Italian, Vietnamese, Korean or Japanese dishes. 

• Indian 1 with Samosa vegetables (V) | Butter chicken and rice | Butter Potato and Mushroom(V) Date & Chocolate Balls
• Indian 2 with Beef Vindaloo, Sweet potato curry (V), Festive Rice, Coconut Ladoo
• Thai 1 with Chicken Glass Noodle Salad, Pad Thai Vegetarian (V), Thai Sweet Rice + Coconut
• Thai 2 with Spicy Chickpea, and Tomato Soup (V), Thai Pork Larb with roasted rice, Thai Jelly, and Coconut
• Chinese 1 with Chicken Wontons, Steamed Vegetarian dumplings, Sweet dumplings to taste
• Chinese 2 with Chinese Noodles with Sweet and Sour Vegetables, Fried Pork and Cabbages Dumplings, Chinese Sweet Spring rolls - Nian Gao
• December Christmas Menu with individual Turkey Pies, Vegetable Pies (V), Thai Salmon Cakes, Mini mince pies

ON THE DAY

• We begin with a complimentary refresher while guests are arriving. Next, we prep for 1 hour. Then we together cook all the dishes. Finally, you and your guests can enjoy new flavors, exotic ingredients, cooking, drinking, eating and sharing your creations around a large kitchen table. 
• The experience will be for 3 hours so you might cook two or three rounds. We will set the kitchen up according to the menu of the country you choose. Working in teams up to 2-3 people, you will be making 2-3 dishes from scratch and possibly another dish or two for you to eat. Each team will finish and present the dish in takeaway containers so they can be transported to the client's venue. 
• We can include a competitive or relaxed style of cooking in this 3-hour class. Each group will make enough food to feed 15-20 meals. 
• Pre and Post party venue  – The National Hotel, located in Richmond’s bustling Victoria Street, is a place for locals and far-flung travellers to come together in a community-minded space, where the staff is always proud to serve and the atmosphere is heady with good vibes. http://thenationalhotel.com.au/

BOOKING TERMS

• Email hello@otaokitchen.com.au or call chef Ha Nguyen 0408 217 899 for available date/time and obligation free quote today. 
• A minimum charge/number of participants applies to the minimum group size of 10 people. 
• Payment in full is required at the time of booking to reserve or hold your booking and may be made via credit or debit card, cash or bank transfer. 
• You can secure the date by a deposit of 4 seats or 25% of the total invoice, whatever is more. The balance is due one week before the event upon confirmation of the guest numbers and their dietary requirements. More https://otaokitchen.com.au/terms/