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How to Feed a Meeting Without the 3 P.M. Slump
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An office-lunch playbook: what to order for six people, sixteen, or sixty.
The post-biryani boardroom nap is a national institution we're happy to disrupt.
For six to ten people, individual meeting bowls win: everyone gets a named, sealed bowl, dietary needs are handled per person, and there's no serving-spoon diplomacy. Mix two chicken builds, one vegetarian, and let people claim by name tag.
For a training day of twenty to forty, boxed lunches keep timing tight — compact builds, cutlery in the box, delivered on the hour you set. Add drinks by the dozen and skip the dessert platter until the last session, when the room has earned it.
For sixty and up, the live bowl bar turns lunch into the agenda item people remember: bases, flame-grilled proteins, textures and dressings composed to order by our team. It needs a table, a power point and forty-five minutes — we bring the rest.
Two practical notes from experience. Order a 60/40 split of meat to vegetarian even if the RSVP says otherwise; vegetarian bowls disappear faster in groups than individual orders predict. And schedule delivery fifteen minutes before the actual break — unboxing always eats the first ten.
By Salads Kitchen Team