Papa Lena's Healthy foods Inc. (312-455-8100) A Papa Lena's interactive, in-kitchen corporate teamwork event is the memorable program you've been looking for. Papa Lena's foods are hand made specialty gourmet food products Roasted Sweet Red  Bell Pepper Chips® and Bodacious Beet Chips® are unlike anything you've ever tasted. Unique, different, and delicious. A burst of flavor in every bite. At Papa Lena' s Healthy Foods Inc. we have found so many versatile uses for the crispy chips that we have added a line of products including giardinera, salad dressings, pasta sauce, tapenades, caponetta, and dips. Our latest and most exciting addition is our Sweet Bodacious Beet Chips®. We welcome you to try our healthy treats!
  
               Are you looking for a unique, fun, and successful team-building event?

Papa Lena's interactive in-kitchen corporate teamwork events, are the seriously entertaining, fun and memorable programs you are looking for.

 

A Papa Lena's interactive, in-kitchen corporate teamwork event is the memorable program you've been looking for. Entertaining, fun, (and delicious), participants will leave with improved communication and teamwork skills they'll never forget!
Marie & Danny Lena chef's and author of  Being Better than My Best : How You Can Raise Your Own Bar By Recreating Who You Really Are!  Papa Lena's Recipes for SUCCESS interactive in-kitchen training's revolve around a professionally facilitated teamwork-and-communication workshop. Sizzling hot stove top pans, sharp knives, and commercial ovens, combined with a fast pace in tight spaces demands open and clear communication. Failure to listen and support each other's efforts can lead to failure – the same is true for your company's success.

Click here for a (video) peek into the kitchen at Papa Lena's where your event will take place.

Your event is important to us and we take it very seriously. Drawing from our twenty-five years of experience facilitating corporate motivational, empowerment, and team-building events, we help your group create a lively celebration of teamwork and good food. This is hands-on, interactive training from setup to cleanup!

Everyone gets involved… no one is in it alone.

Prior to the event, we interview you for a “needs assessment” to ascertain particular issues and/or problems that need to be addressed during the workshop. Without this attention to integration, corporate team building events are, at best, a short term boost to employee enthusiasm and positive morale. If they are planned and executed well, people feel good about themselves and about each other. Co-workers get to know each other better and have a common experience to talk about back at work.

Plan Goals >  Take Action as a TEAM>   Achieve Goal>  Follow through

A team that embraces a vision becomes focused, energized and confident and the meal is filled with countless opportunities. The menu is the planned goal, con
structing the recipes are the planned actions taken as a TEAM, the meal is the completed goal, and the team-work clean-up is the follow-through.

Menu Choices

The team can choose from three menu choices (majority rules) based on fresh seasonal ingredients using Papa Lena’s personal recipes. Respecting diversity is an important part of building a cohesive team; therefore we will do our best to accommodate vegetarian or special food needs.

Menu options typically include:

Authentic Spaghetti and Meatballs

Participants begin by preparing the sugo (sauce)… hand-crushing imported San Marzano tomatoes, chopping the onions, garlic, fennel, and parsley, then simmering in extra-virgin olive oil. Three select meats are ground, spices added and each participant rolls their own meatballs (it’s always fun to see the different shapes and sizes!). Various pasta shapes are boiled while the salad and homemade dressing is prepared. Fresh garlic bread fills the kitchen with an irresistible aroma…mission accomplished!

Homemade Sicilian Pizza from scratch.

Participants feed the yeast, proof the dough, knead the dough, hand-roll the dough, throw and spin it in the air (always fun), prepare all the toppings from fresh veggies to Italian sausage, make the sauce and bake the pizza in our 1940’s Middleby-Marshall pizza oven.

Homemade Sicilian Pizza from scratch. Participants feed the yeast, proof the dough, knead the dough, hand-roll the dough, throw and spin it in the air (always fun), prepare all the toppings from fresh veggies to Italian sausage, make the sauce and bake the pizza in our 1940’s Middleby-Marshall pizza oven

Chicken and/or Eggplant Parmigiana

Participants first prepare the sugo infused with Papa Lena’s Red Pepper Chips; clean, season, and flour the chicken (or eggplant); prepare the egg wash; coat with seasoned fresh breadcrumbs, assemble, then bake the Parmigiana with mozzarella and Romano cheeses. Meanwhile, the salad and homemade dressing is prepared. Choose from pasta or garlic bread as an accompaniment.

Appetizers and homemade desserts are included and prepared by participants. Everyone leaves with the menu choice recipes.

 

We accommodate groups of up to 25 people in our professional kitchen and production facility. A Papa Lena's hands-on event is perfect for your next team building company event. 


Call or email us now!

 

Call or email us now!
1-312-455-8100

 

 
Papa Lena's Healthy Foods Inc.

www.Papalena.com
Papa Lena's Healthy foods Inc. (312-421-7788) Hand made specialty gourmet food products Sweet Red Pepper Chips® and Bodacious Beet Chips® are unlike anything you've ever tasted. Unique, different, and delicious. A burst of flavor in every bite. At Papa Lena' s Healthy Foods Inc. we have found so many versatile uses for the crispy chips that we have added a line of products including giardinera, salad dressings, pasta sauce, tapenades, caponetta, and dips. Our latest and most exciting addition is our Bodacious Beet Chips®. We welcome you to try our healthy treats!