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Thanksgiving provides the perfect opportunity to thank staff for their hard work. This is especially true this year, as many employees have had to work through strange and potentially unsafe conditions caused by the global pandemic. For essential workers, staying home simply isn’t an option. Employers should take Thanksgiving as an opportunity to show their staff how much they truly appreciate them.

Providing a holiday meal is an excellent way to thank staff for their hard work and for not taking their vacation the week of Thanksgiving. However, it’s important that employers adhere to safety guidelines and recommendations to prevent the spread of disease.

Corporate Catering During the Pandemic

Most people agree that it’s not a good idea to offer meals buffet-style during the pandemic. Instead, employers should consider offering boxed lunches or other pre-packaged meals to staff. These individually packaged meals allow for adequate social distancing.  This is a great way to say thanks, while keeping everybody safe.

Although employers may want to prepare a holiday feast themselves, this isn’t advised. Catering companies, like Silver Spoon Caterers, understand how to prepare and package food safely and staff members often feel safer eating food prepared by a professional caterer. Fortunately, there are several safe catering options employers can offer during the week of Thanksgiving.

Keeping Everybody Safe

Although events have officially resumed in Virginia, it’s still recommended to keep attendance to a minimum. Employers should only offer meals to employees during their work day. It’s also important to ensure employees have enough space to social distance.

Instead of offering one meal time for every employee, employers might want to offer meals to small groups at different times throughout the day. This helps prevent overcrowding in the break room and ensures everyone gets a chance to enjoy a special meal.

When serving staff, it’s important to keep in mind that different people have different dietary needs and requirements. Many times, vegetarians and individuals with food allergies must miss out because employers don’t provide them with anything safe to eat. It’s important to offer a variety of options including vegetarian, vegan, and gluten free choices. This helps ensure everyone leaves work fully satisfied.

Thanksgiving Catering

Silver Spoon Caterers offers several corporate catering options. Employers can choose between breakfast, lunch, dinner, and appetizers. Boxed meal options include breakfast boxed meals, sandwich boxed lunches, individually boxed mixed grill salads, and a variety of entrees. Each single boxed meal is freshly prepared by an experienced chef shortly before delivery. All lunch and entrée boxed meals come with dessert.

An excellent option for Thanksgiving, meetings, or anytime employers want to let their staff know how much they’re appreciated, Silver Spoon Caterers’ Single Boxed Menu features a variety of favorites as well as several vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free options.

Silver Spoon Caterers strives to provide exceptional service and high-quality food to individuals and businesses throughout Northern Virginia and the D.C. metro area. Please contact us to learn more about our boxed meals and safe corporate catering options.

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When planning a meeting, it’s important to consider the basic needs of your attendees. Providing food at work meetings is an excellent way to keep attendees focused and content. However, the type of food you offer can make a big difference to your meeting’s success. For example, providing heavy foods like pizza or hamburgers can make your attendees tired. This makes it harder for them to stay focused on the meeting. A few carefully planned snacks will keep your attendees satisfied while improving their attention and focus.

Beverages

Soda can make attendees jittery. Serving sugary drinks increases the chance of a sugar high followed by a crash. This can cause problems if attendees must return to work after the meeting. Instead of soda, consider serving coffee and tea, bottled water, or apple and orange juice. Just make sure you keep the coffee fresh and have lots of bottled water on hand.

Snack Ideas

As the meeting planner, it is your job to decide what food to serve your guests. Although you’ll probably serve a full meal if you expect your meeting to last all day, it’s important to offer snacks as well. Serving snacks alone is appropriate if your meeting will only last an hour or two. Whatever the case, you’ll want to have a few snacks ready before your meeting begins.

Fresh Vegetables

Fresh vegetables can help keep your attendees focused and satisfied. Consider serving a vegetable and hummus platter like our Hummus Trio. This platter comes with toasted flatbread, matchstick veggies, and classic, roasted red pepper, and pesto hummus. This is the perfect choice for every attendee, even vegetarians. 

Sandwich Rolls

Sometimes a meeting requires a little more than vegetables and dip. Our Assorted Silver Dollar Sandwich Rolls provide a satisfying lunch that won’t weigh down your attendees or make them feel tired. These bite-size sandwich rolls come with house chips and a cookie platter and can be made vegetarian to ensure the satisfaction of every attendee.

Chips & Dip

Chips provide a fast and convenient option for an afternoon meeting. Silver Spoon Caterers offers house-made tortilla chips paired with our house salsa and signature guacamole. We also offer the option to add our house chips and herb dip to your tortilla chip order.

Nuts

Nuts provide attendees with the energy they need to stay focused and alert. They also provide a convenient work meeting snack that doesn’t make a mess. Silver Spoon Caterers’ Nuts medley includes pistachios, hazelnuts, and honey roasted nuts served with individual Greek Yogurts.

Power Hour

Our Power Hour is the perfect choice for quick meetings that require the attention and focus of attendees. This option includes house-made granola bars, individual Greek yogurts, and a fresh fruit bowl.

Planning the snacks for your next meeting doesn’t have to be difficult; it just takes a little thought and preparation. If you still aren’t sure what to serve, Silver Spoon Caterers can help! Please contact us for more information about our corporate catering options.

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Every year, it seems like more and more people are choosing organic catering providers. If you’re like many, you’ve probably wondered whether organic ingredients are really better than conventionally grown food. The fact is there’s mounting evidence that organic food is better for your body, mental health and the environment.

What Does Organic Mean?

Organic foods are foods that are produced without the use of GMOs, synthetic or chemical pesticides. Organic livestock used for food is fed an organic diet and allowed access to the outdoors. These animals are typically not given antibiotics or growth hormones.

Understanding GMOs

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are bioengineered genes used to make crops resistant to herbicides. GMOs are also used to helps crops produce their own insecticide. GMO crops are sprayed with toxic herbicide up to fifteen times more than non-GMO crops.

There is a lot of debate about whether GMOs are safe. Whatever your opinion, it’s important to consider that more people are choosing to eat organic in an effort to avoid GMOs. Keep this in mind when planning your next event.

Health Benefits of Organic Catering

There are a number of benefits to eating organic. Organic foods have more nutrients than conventionally grown foods. They do not contain chemicals that can be harmful to your health. People with allergies often find that their symptoms subside when they eat an organic diet.

The way that organic foods are produced helps minimize the health risks to farmers and their families. Supporting organic farming helps keep harmful chemicals out of the air, soil and drinking water.

Offering Organic Catering at Your Next Fairfax Event 

When holding a special event or corporate meeting, you need to consider the growing number of people choosing to eat organic. Offering organic choices lets your attendees know that you care about their health and the environment. It also makes it possible to include everyone.

Silver Spoon Caterers offers a wide selection of high quality food for corporate events, weddings and special events. We offer a variety of organic choices. Our catering services are available in Northern Virginia and the Metro DC area. Please contact us for more information about our organic catering options in Fairfax VA.