No wonder this is one of the fastest-growing areas in team building. The results are beyond delicious! To evaluate your favorite options, simply check the box next to each program, then click COMPARE.

Hot-Cha-Cha Chili Cook-Off

The searing flavors of this fiery festival guarantee that our Hot-Cha-Cha Chili Cook-Off brings the five-alarm fun. Does your team have a fire in the belly when it comes to their chili recipe? Think they can bring red-hot heat and be crowned chili champion? Then step on up, partners! Show off that chili machismo as you vie for succulent spicy success!

Teams will start out with the basic chili necessities (the meat and tomatoes, if you will). Ye Olde General Store is open for teams to purchase more ingredients. But teams had better leave their inner-bandito at home. The sheriff keeps a watchful eye and doesn’t take too kindly to sneak-thievin’. Teams can also negotiate with the hombres from other teams for those last minute needs. But no tusslin’. Sheriff’ll ride you right out of town for that.

If your chili recipe is definitely blue ribbon material bring it on! Us judges have certainly polished our belt-buckles around a few pots of Texas Red in the past. Shucks, even got some stuck in our cookie dusters. We know good chuck. So make sure your chili is a true hot tamale! The Hot-Cha-Cha Chili Cook-Off is both hot and chili con cool!

Negotiation, team building skills and good communication – not to mention singing ability – are all essential ingredients for success in this fun and engaging program.

Chocolate Company Challenge

Your group will feel like kids in a candy store throughout this delicious team builder! Every activity is built around chocolate, that magical delicacy long known as “food of the gods.”

We get everybody started with the manic fun of Full Contact Chocolate Bingo. Once your teams are properly energized, tantalize their taste buds with our unique “Chocolate Taste Test” competition, serving up everything from familiar childhood favorites to exotic flavors like green tea chocolate. The next hilarious challenge, Towering Chocolate, sharpens problem solving and innovation skills as teams work to build the tallest possible freestanding chocolate tower. Our grand finale – a wild building event that involves everyone. Defy laws of physics and gravity as you help Wonka, Inc. build a Bridge Over Chocolate Waters.

Program emphasis can either be competitive (just for fun) or collaborative (big picture thinking) depending on your group’s goals. As with all teambonding programs, there’s lots of room for customization. Tasty options include You’re in the Game of Chocolate, a fast-paced trivia game played either seated at team tables or moving around a giant game board. We can also provide a working chocolate fountain, something that always goes over well. Prizes? Aprons sporting your company logo or Giant Hershey Bars? Just say the word.

Wicked Good Chowda Cook Off

Attention chowder aficionados: you’re in for a seriously enjoyable team experience. Yes, it’s another incomparable teambonding competitive cooking event! This time, get ready for chowder: fish, clam, or corn. teambonding will bring all the groceries you need for a taste-filled teambuilding event. Working in happy, hilarious teamwork, participants turn cartons of cream, butter, onions, corn, potatoes, raw eggs, fish or clams into cauldrons of prizeworthy chowder.

Forget about calories, fat and cholesterol! We’re creating chowderous works of art here, attempting to bring rapture to the lips of each and every judge…oh, did we mention there will be judges? This is, after all, a competition. What team will capture the highest accolades? Who gets the best marks for working as a team? Answer these questions and more as you give your group an uplifting break from the day-to-day grind.

Whether you’re from South Boston, East Boston, Dorchester, Roslindale, Medford, Cambridge or anywhere else on the planet, engage your inner Bostonian and get cooking!

“Fare” to Share

Fare to Share is an exhilarating teambonding experience that ends in a meaningful and worthwhile donation of food to people in need. The program includes food prepared and consumed by the participants during the event and a three-part donation to area food banks.

To help your group better comprehend the issues of hunger and homelessness in the US, the program begins with a brief quiz on the subject. Participants will work in teams to answer questions which the facilitators will review and then discuss as a group.

Fare to Share has three components, with competitions and winners from each!

The Cooking Competition includes appetizers consumed by participants, as well as the hot food preparation that will be donated to a local soup kitchen. Teams will compete to see who prepares the “best” dish in the eyes of our culinary judges.

The Great PB & J Challenge involves teams working together to make and package up to 20 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches per team. After being bagged with other nutritional snacks, they will be ready to be distributed at a local soup kitchen or street food distribution program. Part of the challenge is that the participants will be making their own peanut butter from scratch!

Food Bag Donation has participants completing three challenges to earn the supplies needed to assemble a bag of household food items for area families. Teams will need to earn a reusable tote bag to put the food in, materials to decorate the bag, and the food to place in the bag. The teams will also write a personal letter that will accompany the food bag, which is given to a local family in need.

When possible, the staff from the benefiting organization will be on hand to receive the donations and convey thanks and appreciation from the organization. What a great way to build your team – and give back to the community!

The Great Appetizer Challenge

If you are looking for an event that is similar to our other great culinary programs, but a bit shorter in duration, we’ll love our Great Appetizer Challenge. Your group will tour the world by preparing hors d’oeuvres from every corner of the globe.

As with all our Recipe For Success events, there will be many challenges to meet along the way that will require a high level of communication and collaboration to successfully complete your tasks. Through the use of food preparation, your team will realize their high potentials and understand themselves better collectively as a team.

The group is divided into teams. Each team is challenged to create appetizers that look great and taste even great (no pigs in a blanket here). We provide all of the necessary ingredients, utensils, and recipes.

Once completed, all of the tempting creations will be showcased on a Grand Buffet for all participants to share and enjoy. In the events finale, the judges will select a champion based on taste, presentation, team work, and leadership.

Ice Cream Making Challenge

Turning raw ingredients into sweet and delectable ice cream requires expertise, precision and creativity. It’s a fascinating process that will require all of your team and leadership skills to be put into action.

The Ice Cream Making Challenge combines the knowledge gained from various expert workshops with the unique experiential facilitation of Teambonding to produce an unforgettable and delicious team-building adventure.

The large group will be divided into competitive teams of 4 to 6 participants. Participants must leave their team to gain expertise in one specific ice cream making skill including recipe basics, waffle cone making, equipment instructions, and marketing fundamentals. Teams will then be challenged to bring together their new skills and develop a brand new ice cream flavor. Teams must present their new flavor to our panel of judges and one team will be recognized as the “Ice Cream Making Champions.” All participants will be “winners” as they enjoy their ice cream and homemade waffle cones during the awards ceremony

Ice Sculpting

Let’s get this out of the way right up front: no, we don’t do ice sculpting with chain saws. teambonding is known for stretching the boundaries of fun, but even we have our limits. What you do get is an interesting, out-of-the-ordinary team building experience that serves as a great…uh…icebreaker. Seriously, this is a cool thing most people have never done before, and everybody tends to really enjoy it.

So how does it work? Participants to split up into teams, their ultimate goal being to sculpt a big block of ice into a masterpiece, demonstrating just how powerful frozen water (and teamwork) can be. Once teams are assembled, everybody gets to watch an impressive demonstration by a genuine Mater Ice Sculptor. Your group will learn all about the tools and techniques required. Teams then get right to work. Each group is charged with the task of planning, designing, building, displaying and lighting their very own ice sculpture.

The results are fun, funny, and sometimes pretty impressive. As with all of our events, you get the famous teambonding touch – our facilitators are very good at engaging hearts and minds, and laughter is one of our secret weapons. For an additional fee, you can even have the Master Sculptor carve special sculptures like your company logo, a bust of the CEO, or whatever. Note: this event is surprisingly flexible and portable!

Just Desserts

The newest addition to our acclaimed Team Cuisine series encompasses all of the proven team building components of our popular lunch/dinner events, but concentrates on everyone’s favorite part of the meal – dessert! Just Desserts is the perfect choice for an after lunch or dinner program, or as a refreshing way to break up a day of meetings. Preparing and sharing these delicious treats offers a fabulous opportunity for bonding.

Your group is first divided into teams. The fun begins right away as each team comes up with a team name, plus a unique team cheer or rallying cry. This in itself can be quite hilarious, and helps set a tone of excitement and friendly competition for the rest of the event.

Next, each team is challenged to create desserts that look every bit as delicious as they taste. Every team prepares one or more mouthwatering treats worthy of a top French patisserie. Teambonding makes your job easy by providing all necessary ingredients, utensils and recipes. Rest assured, every dish will be made from scratch. No slice n’ bake here – your group deserves the best!

Once complete, all of the tempting creations will be showcased on a Grand Buffet. Everyone can now sample each creation. Then in come the judges. The day’s champions are chosen based on product taste and presentation, with points also awarded for the leadership and teamwork that went into each team’s effort. We can also customize additional judging categories to help underscore a conference or event theme, company goals, or anything else you’d like to emphasize.

A short debrief follows, giving teams the opportunity to share their team names and cheers, plus discuss what they’ve learned about working as a team. We find there are always important lessons that any group can implement immediately once they’re back in the workplace. How sweet it is!

The Progressive ‘Networking’ Dinner

Tired of boring business dinners? Would you like your group to meet each other in a fun, non-threatening way on the first night of a conference, or get to know each other better while enjoying a fabulous meal? The Progressive Dinner is just the recipe: a unique combination of fun, fine dining and team building.

Our “Cocktail Party” game starts the evening off right with a fun and energetic Ice Breaker for the entire group. Then, it’s fast-paced fun as you share a different table with different people for each course: appetizer, salad, main course and dessert. Each course features a table top game or exercise for everyone to do together. It’s all carefully designed to encourage team interaction and fun while improving team skills. Depending upon your group size, each participant will dine, laugh and play with over 40 new people!

The Progressive “Networking’ Dinner can be done in the restaurant of your choice (we can help you choose), a hotel banquet room, or even in different restaurants for each course. Our energetic and jovial emcee/facilitator leads all tabletop games and exercises, coordinates the changing of the tables and even works with the restaurant on the timing of the courses. Table hosts for each table are also available at an additional cost. A fabulous way to have fun, celebrate successes together or energize your next meeting, off-site or executive retreat.

Team Cuisine

If there’s one thing we all have in common, it’s that we like to eat. The Team Cuisine team building experience is a fun and effective way to bring diverse team members together, bond as a group and learn more about each other through food preparation, cooking and dining together.

Working as a team, you get to prepare, enjoy and celebrate a serious multi-course gourmet meal. The idea here is to combine ingredients, dishes and styles of food from around the world onto one mouthwatering menu, to represent the diverse cultures, ethnic backgrounds and tastes of your participants. We focus on your group’s experience first, and then match the food to your specific event.

Team Cuisine is teambonding’s flagship team building experience. Through the use of food preparation, your team will experience itself realizing their high potentials and understand themselves better collectively as a team. This program makes an especially great choice for getting everyone on board quickly on the first day of a company conference, or as a celebratory event after a successful project completion.

Choose our Teflon Chef™ variation if you wish to add a competitive edge between teams. In this version, awards are given at the end of the experience to honor every team’s contribution to the final outcome.

Team Sushi

You already know that your co-workers are capable of rising to all sorts of lofty challenges. But creating an entire sushi meal? Yes, it can be done, and in a fashion that brings people together in a delightful departure from the day-to-day dynamics of the workplace. In this sense, sushi makes a healthy meal in more ways than one.

We assemble your group into five-person teams. Group people according to company departments, sales regions, or any other approach that makes sense within your company’s culture. Allowing each team to name itself adds a nice touch. Then, an expert sushi chef guides the entire group through the preparation of this seven-part extravaganza. Delicacies include Green Tea, Clear Soup, Sushi Rice, Box Sushi, Wrapping Sushi, Rolled Sushi and Hand Roll, with beautifully cut fruit as dessert. Remember, absolutely no experience is required – even if you don’t know a hangiri from a color copier, we’ll make sure your final product is worth the effort.

As with all Teambonding programs, Team Sushi is highly customizable. If you desire, we can take care of all initial prep work in advance, adding an element of instant gratification to the whole affair. It’s also easy to work any desired company theme into the introduction and optional debrief. Depending on the overall tone you’d like to create, we can also spice things up with spontaneous Sake-Bombs (alcoholic drink) throughout the event.

Teflon Chef

Get ready for the food to start flying as your Teflon Chef teams face off against each other in a frenetic culinary battle of champions. You beforehand which Teflon Chef battleground to compete in – Italian, French, Mexican, Organic, seafood, beef, poultry or vegetarian. During the cook-off, chefs race to complete a definitive multi-course meal.

Test your cooking, negotiation, bartering, and buying skills by best utilizing the puny budget allotted you. Buy key ingredients or hire our consultant Teflon Chef (who won’t cook for you, but will be happy to help with your team process and get you going in the right direction). The competition is fun but fierce, and speed is critical.

To add to the drama, the Mystery Ingredient Du Jour must be prominently used in all of the dishes. This magic ingredient could be anything from king crab, ketchup, or lemon grass to lettuce or lobster. As you might imagine, the results can get a little crazy – around here, foie gras ice cream comes with the territory.

A distinguished group of discerning and hilariously outspoken judges determine who reigns victorious. But regardless of the outcome, you’re guaranteed one thing – nobody will go away hungry!

Whose Wine Is It Anyway?

In turbulent, stressful times we realize teams are often expected to sacrifice. Just to be clear, this is not one of those times. Prepare your palettes for something refreshingly different: a team building event fueled by wine! Whose Wine is It Anyway is a fun and delicious collaborative program in a relaxed, informal setting. This unique event combines team challenges, lots of interaction, and plenty of fun. Your group will become wine experts because they have to – everyone’s success depends on it!

Our Trade-off icebreaker gets everyone up on their feet, laughing, meeting other people and collecting wine expertise to share with their own wine team. Now each team presents its particular wine to the rest of the group for a tasting. They must also offer up helpful hints for remembering their wine. After each wine has been tasted it’s time for the ultimate blind taste-test. How well did you explain your Pinot Noir? Can your team agree on the differences between the Merlot and the Cabernet? It’s tricky and fun, and requires teams to build consensus when they choose their final answers.

This activity is perfect before or after dinner. If you’re looking for a creative alternative to another standard-issue cocktail hour, here’s your solution. Uncork your team’s potential!