I love it when training includes good food
Workmate J and I attended a one-day training course recently. It was fully catered and lunch was great! A catering company came to the training venue and set up bain marie hot dishes, salad and fruit. In the photo below, starting from the salad on the plate, moving clockwise: salad, samosa, vegetable curry, tandoori chicken, lamb rogan josh. Buried underneath it all, steamed rice.
And after that, fresh fruit (watermelon, rockmelon, red apple, strawberries, orange and pear).
There was plenty to eat and you could go back for seconds if you wished. We were free to help ourselves to tea, coffee and fruit juice throughout the day. And there was even an ice cream freezer, full of Frosty Fruits, Icy Poles and Billabongs! I really wanted an ice cream but I was too full from lunch, what a waste! :D
As we left the venue for the day I noticed the week’s lunch menu posted on a board. Damn! If our training had been the next day, we’d be having roast pork with apple sauce!
Last year Jac went to a conference where the lunches were full hot buffet complete with surprisingly fancy desserts – she came home raving about the fantastic pannacota she’d eaten that day. In fact, she told me that all the delegates talked about the next morning was how much they were looking forward to lunch!
Have you attended a course or conference which had amazing catering? Feel free to share your best (or worst) experience!