Let’s face it – the standard boxed sandwich and salad office catering options can get boring after a while. Why not spice things up with fun office lunch ideas that are unique and refreshing? Whether your office is tired of the same old office lunch catering or you have an important mid-day meeting with a client you want to impress, Deborah Miller Catering in New York City can help. Take a look at our catering lunch ideas for the office and contact us to plan your office lunch catering.

Lunch Catering Idea #1: Office Catering Taco Bar

When you want to please absolutely everyone in the office, it’s hard to go wrong with tacos. One of our favorite catering lunch ideas for the office is the make your own taco bar. With a make your own taco bar, your coworkers can customize their tacos to their liking and they can be made with almost any dietary restrictions in mind.

Deborah Miller Catering can help you create the perfect office lunch catering taco bar. Choose from two proteins like Pulled Pork and Blackened Salmon and add on fun toppings like smashed avocado, jalapenos, and pico de gallo. Serve alongside nachos with guacamole and salsa for the perfect Mexican fiesta! You can even consider getting celebratory with margarita mocktails (or real cocktails – hello new favorite boss!) for a fun midday treat.

Lunch Catering Idea #2: Serve Up International Cuisine

Taking your colleagues and clients around the world with an international cuisine tour is a fun and unexpected office catering idea! You can customize your menu to focus on a specific area of the world or give your guests a variety of options from Thailand, the Mediterranean, Mexico, the southern United States, and India. The possibilities are endless!

Having different food stations is key to serving up International cuisine at your next office party. Create a Far East station that draws in flavors of Asia with mini veggie spring rolls, fried dumplings, and steamed edamame. For those who want comfort food, create a southern comforts station with cheeseburger and BBQ pork sliders, chili and a custom mashed potato bar. Add in a fiesta station with mini tacos, burritos and a make your own nacho bar. Round out your International cuisine with a taste of Italy including farfalle, classic Caprese skewers, chicken marsala, and focaccia bread.

These different food stations are perfect for larger corporate gatherings and office lunches as it gives options for everyone. Self-serve stations are also perfect for mid-day lunches where you want people to socialize and mix with lots of different individuals. Have office locations or clients across the globe? How about featuring street food from each country where you have a presence. It’s a fun a delicious way to showcase your business accomplishments – no boring powerpoint and packet required!

Lunch Catering Idea #3: It’s Greek to Me

What’s not to like about delicately thin shavings of lamb, chicken, or beef served on pita? A spread of traditional Greek food is a great alternative to the default lunch sandwiches and side salads.

You can customize Deborah Miller Catering’s Greek Spread with options like chicken shawarma, lamb & beef gyros, and hand-rolled falafel. Toppings like sliced tomatoes, cucumber, and tahini make it easy for your coworkers to customize their Greek pitas. Serve up your gyros and Greek spread with hummus and vegetables and a large Greek salad to round out your lunch. For dessert, consider baklava, a rich dessert pastry with filo filled with chopped nuts, for a delicious after lunch treat.

Lunch Catering Idea #4: Big City BBQ Office Catering

There are lots of ways to spice up office lunch catering with BBQ inspired food! Bring the backyard BBQ to the office with options like BBQ brisket, herb-rubbed rotisserie chicken, corn on the cob and coleslaw. Serve alongside mouthwatering potato salad and corn bread for a fun office lunch idea. Some other great sides to include in your BBQ office lunch catering are roasted brussel sprouts, mac & cheese, and collard greens. BBQ can get a little messy, but it’s nothing that a few hand wipes and napkins can’t fix.

We love serving office lunch catering BBQ on a hot summer day in NYC. To stick with the BBQ theme, decorate your serving area with red and white plaid tablecloths and serve with a cold glass of lemonade.

Lunch Catering Idea #5: A Tour Around Little Italy

With Italian food specialists like eggplant parmesan and chicken marsala, you really can’t go wrong. Take your colleagues on a tour around Italy with specialty pastas like penne with roasted tomatoes, tortellini with nut-free pesto and grilled vegetables, penne a la vodka. We also love chicken alfredo and baked ziti, which are incredibly popular crowd pleasers.

Lunch Catering Idea #6: Finger Food Catering Lunch Ideas for the Office

If you are planning an office lunch where you want every to mingle and socialize, having a finger food lunch is a great idea. There are a lot of different finger foods that colleagues can grab and go, which make it perfect for a meeting or social hour. From sliders to spring rolls, tacos, and mini lobster rolls, Deborah Miller Catering has an expansive finger food lunch catering menu. Whether you want to stick to a special theme, like Mediterranean eats or southern comfort food, we can tailor a special menu that meets your vision – all in fun, bite-sized servings.

Lunch Catering Idea #7: An Upscale Lunch Sure to Impress

Do you have a client you really want to impress? Instead of opting for a typical lunch buffet, create a completely custom office catering menu with white-glove service.

Deborah Miller Catering in NYC will listen to your catering lunch ideas for the office and develop a custom menu that’s sure to wow your clients. We offer sit-down office lunch catering options like pepper-crusted flank steak, grilled salmon, and grilled shrimp. Pair with one of our popular side dishes such as garlic mashed potatoes, freshly grilled seasonal vegetables, quinoa salad, and fusilli pasta with pesto. We can accommodate any allergies and dietary restrictions with our vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free office lunch catering options.

Contact Deborah Miller Catering for Unique Catering Fun Office Lunch Ideas

Think outside of the box when it comes to planning your next office lunch catering. Deborah Miller Catering specializes in creating unique catering menus that meet your needs and exceed your expectations. Whether you are planning a more casual office lunch in New York City or are planning a large-scale company wide event, we will provide delicious event lunch ideas with a personalized touch. We can walk you through the process of planning a unique event with office lunch ideas that impresses colleagues and clients.

To get started planning your office catering, get in touch with the team at Deborah Miller Catering in New York City. We look forward to hearing your catering lunch ideas for the office!

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My mother always told me breakfast was the most important meal of the day. It was a concept drilled into me from an early age and clearly it’s a pervasive concept throughout our country and culture. Our phones ring every afternoon with New York companies ordering breakfast catering for morning meetings, board meetings and C-level meetings. Below are three of our favorite corporate breakfast ideas for catering:

Office Breakfast Catering Idea #1:Traditional Continental Breakfast Platter

The classic continental breakfast platter ruled the corporate catering arena for decades. It was the go-to breakfast with rare exception. The traditional continental breakfast includes an assortment of freshly baked bagels, muffins, and pastries served with cream cheese, sweet cream butter and jelly. This classic assortment is still very popular and is generally offered with an urn of coffee for a caffeine jolt to propel us to lunch. For those daring to live on the wild side, fruit salad was added.

Although we love the traditional, we know that breakfast catering has more opportunity. As is our mission in life, love, and the pursuit to engage the taste buds, we want to infuse the office with creativity. At Deb’s Catering, we want to share three unique breakfast catering ideas to spark your own creativity and energize your meetings.

Office Breakfast Catering Idea #2: Healthy Breakfast Catering Ideas

As people become more engaged in a healthy lifestyle, we guide our clients to offer their corporate demographic more thoughtful, tasty and unusual options for breakfast catering. For those that crave comfort, we offer a slider size version of an egg and cheese sandwich. For those that are vegan, we bake our own vegan banana granola bars (a truly delicious treat!) and for our traditionalists we offer scrambled eggs, bacon and home fries.

For many New York companies, catering breakfast offers wonderful sales, educational, and team-building opportunities. For these more unique meetings, we are often asked for menu suggestions to inspire and promote thoughtful participation from employees. Our go-to breakfast menu in this scenario is our “hearty and homemade” which features homemade French toast popovers, individual yogurt parfaits and mini croissants with smoked salmon, caper butter and sliced cucumber. It offers a little of this and a little of that and takes this breakfast catering idea off the traditional grid.

Office Breakfast Catering Idea #3: Make Your Own Catering

If you want the office abuzz, we recommend featuring one of our chef-manned breakfast catering stations. Our Omelette station catering in NYC remains the ultimate crowd pleaser. Our chefs come to your office, set up an omelet station, and let employees build their own omelets that our chefs then cook to order. Want to take it truly over the top with even more exciting breakfast station ideas? Add a “Make Your Own Waffle Station” where waffles are cooked to order and you can add your own topping. Choose from freshly whipped cream, sliced strawberries, blueberry compote, chocolate chips and drizzle with fresh maple syrup.

Office Breakfast Catering Idea #4: Bagged Breakfast Catering

For those looking for a quick corporate breakfast idea for catering, we recommend our bagged breakfast. This is an easy and convenient way to offer your guests a creative option in a grab-and-go format. Our classic bagged breakfast is offered in a brown Kraft bag, stuffed with goodies, garnished with a colorful jolt of tissue paper. Our signature touch is raffia ribbon tied onto a classic clothespin where you can clip your business card for branding. Favorites to include in the bag are our mini hardboiled egg sandwiches. Choose from sliced hard boiled eggs, shitake mushrooms & roasted tomato aioli or sliced hardboiled egg, olive tapenade and gruyère. No bag is complete without something sweet so I recommend a banana Nutella wrap and round it off with a small bowl of fresh seasonal berries. Viola, perfection!

Check out our breakfast catering menu for more details!

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Employee Appreciation Day. It’s one of those cute and random corporate holidays that creeps up on companies large and small once a year. Some may take it seriously, some may not. But if Boss’s Day actually became somewhat of a thing, with many bosses across the country getting showered with gifts and trinkets, then why should Employee Appreciation Day not have the same impact? It’s 2018, after all.

In case you didn’t know, Employee Appreciation Day falls on March 2nd this year, which also happens to be a Friday. I know, right? There’s honestly no reason not to have a little something to celebrate your staff, and what better way to bring your office together than with food? So read on to get some great meal ideas from our menu and plan a breakfast, lunch or afternoon snack that your employees will love you for!

1. Red, White & Blue Hot Lunch Package – Chicken fingers, mini cheese and veggie burgers, creamy mac and cheese, aka comfort food to the max, and perfect for a Friday.
2. The Classic Cheeseboard – A gorgeous presentation of brie, gouda, gorgonzola, and more, served with fruits, nuts, and assorted crackers. This cheeseboard adds a classy touch and will really make your staff feel like they’re in the lap of gourmet luxury.
3. Waffle Sandwiches – Take your pick: fried chicken with syrup bursts, or banana and nutella. Both are mouthwateringly delicious, and their presentation is a total crowd-pleaser.
4. S’Mores on a Stick – Cover the marshmallow with chocolate, coconut, or graham cracker, and serve on a stick perfect for individual snacking. Another fun option that makes any employee feel like they’re kids back at summer camp.
5. The Butcher Block Lunch Package – Put the power in your staff’s hands and let them make their own sandwiches! We provide all the classic deli cold cuts, assorted breads, condiments, and classic potato salad. Oh, and it also comes with a dessert tray. Done and done.
6. Rosemary Baked Potato Chips with Carmelized Onion Dip – Your employees will truly appreciate you for this one. This is one of the most popular snacks on our menu, featuring a delicious onion dip paired with homemade rosemary chips that are seriously addicting. And they come individually packed too. So easy!
7. Gourmet Peanut Butter Cups – With original flavor choices like dark chocolate and sea salt, almond butter, and more, this is another dessert you just can’t go wrong with, and will show your employees that you really went above and beyond to think of something different.

*We also want to give an honorable mention to a nice order of guacamole, whether it’s in a platter for the masses or individual cups with plantain chips, simply because who doesn’t loveguac??

So, moral of the story is, don’t forget about your employees on Friday March 2nd, and if you really want to step it up, order something fun from us to celebrate. As they say, a leader is only as good as his or her team! Keep that team fed and happy.

And don’t forget about Administrative Professional’s Day in April!

Written by Raele Sabounjian

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