Dining Guide
Virtual Corporate Events Guide for Remote Employees
Team-building ideas and dining gifts from Dinova restaurant partners
Whether you’re looking for a fun online culinary team-building session or searching for cool culinary gifts or swag, our restaurants have you covered! From cookie decorating kits to spicy sauces, our restaurant partners have what it takes to help you add flavor to your interactions with colleagues, internal teams, and clients.
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Benefits of Virtual Corporate Events
Fully remote teams need connection more, not less, now that nobody is in the same office building anymore. Virtual corporate events can help replace those free lunches and happy hours that used to give teammates the opportunity to connect and chat about things other than emails, deadlines, and presentations.
Virtual corporate events skip the travel budget and banquet-room requirements for larger gatherings – all you need is a shipping address and calendar invite! It costs just a fraction of your budget to run a virtual event rather than fly people in for an offsite, and it scales the same whether the team sits in one office or six states.
Book through Dinova’s restaurant partners and the logistics dissapear: kits can ship straight to home addresses, eligible orders earn myDinova points, and finance gets one invoice rather than ten.
Team Building Activities for Remote Employees
Interactive Virtual Games
Trivia nights, icebreakers, and tastings give a distributed team something to do together that isn’t just a status meeting on Zoom.
Virtual Food and Beverage Experiences
Cookie gifts, chocolate, and other samplers shipped straight from our partners to each employee’s doorstep.
Employee Recognition and Appreciation Events
Skip the gift card and send a meal from our restaurant partners instead. That way, recognition shows up at someone’s door!
Collaborative Learning Experiences
Get your team together to learn a new skill – cooking, brewing beer, or how learn how wine is made. That way, they log off having learned something new.
Virtual Events
Dave & Buster’s
Virtual Team Building
Don’t let distance keep you apart from your team. Dave & Buster’s is changing the way remote teams improve morale, create camaraderie, and boost productivity with their virtual team-building events. Their fun activities include a variety of games such as Trivia, Fun Facts, Pictionary, and LipSync Battle. Get the party started by contacting ruffa.fortin@daveandbusters.com at 214-904-2533.
Your Beer Friend
Virtual Beer Tastings
Now, this is a virtual meeting your team will actually look forward to: a beer tasting hosted by the self-described “Beer Geeks” at Your Beer Friend. This innovative company delivers beer tasting packages right to your team members’ doorsteps, complete with beers, tasting glassware, food pairing snacks, and unboxing instructions. Then, an expert guides them through an hour-long virtual tasting experience that can be customized to meet your company’s needs.
Z. Cioccolato
Virtual Chocolate Making Classes
Transform virtual gatherings into deliciously entertaining experiences with Z. Cioccolato’s chocolate classes. Seeing your team’s chocolate making skills while enjoying tasty treats makes these classes the perfect recipe for virtual team building. They’ll walk you through the tempering process and have you create your own chocolate candies such as: Pecan Turtles, Almond Bear Paws, Jumbo Peanut Butter Cups, and Dipped Strawberries. To schedule your own private class, contact Chef Mike at info@zcioccolato.com.
Culinary Gifts
Tiff’s Treats
Cookies & Sweets
Tiff’s Treats delivers warm, freshly baked cookies straight to your door, perfect for sweetening team meetings, client gifts, or workplace celebrations. With same-day delivery and customizable packaging, they make it easy to share a little joy—one warm cookie at a time.
Mrs. Prindables
Caramel Apples
35 years ago, their Caramel Apple company began with an indulgent invention. Using only the finest ingredients — orchard-fresh Granny Smith apples, creamy homemade caramel, premium nuts and the best-quality chocolates — Mrs Prindables created a unique and decadent gift unlike any other: Gourmet Caramel Apples. With an enormous variety of gift baskets and corporate gifting options, there’s something for every occasion at Mrs Prindables.
Polly’s Pies
Sweet Pies + Nationwide Shipping
What do you get for the client or colleague you want to say thanks to? You can’t go wrong with a delicious pie! Polly’s Pies is offering nationwide shipping and is an easy way to show your appreciation to clients, team members, and more. With plenty of pies and handy gifts to choose from, there’s something for everyone.
YES Cacao
Botanical Chocolate Bars
Set the bar high by surprising and delighting your business clients with the unique and indulgent offerings from YES Cacao. Only sourcing the top-shelf ingredients, you’ve never tasted something so delicious that’s actually good for you. The Botanical Chocolates® help with physical energy, mental focus and memory, and calming of the nervous system. Hurry and say YES to the chocolate gift everyone is sure to love.
Yolk
Coffee + Pancake Mix Kits
At Yolk, you can find all of their branded merchandise and retail items found exclusively at Yolk restaurants around the country! Take your breakfast or brunch game up a notch with the Yolk Pancake bundle (includes pancake mix and syrup) as well as their premium coffee blends. Yolk’s coffee bundle comes with a mug and a french press for you to enjoy in the mornings.
Z. Cioccolato
Fudge Gift Boxes
Surprise and impress your favorite clients or partners with delicious gifts from Z. Cioccolato. The best fudge on the West Coast is a unique and tasty way to show your appreciation. Choose from their assortment of gift boxes featuring their small-batch, creative, multi-layered gourmet fudge. With innovative and seasonal flavors, their world-famous layered fudges make a perfect gift year-round. Make your professional relationships a little sweeter with one of these gifts.
Affy Tapple
Candied Apples
Since their founding in 1948, Affy Tapple — the creator of The Original Caramel Apple — has been a Chicago and Midwest tradition. Now, you can bring this classic treat to your next office meeting, or surprise a valued client with a sweet treat. With nationwide shipping, share the love with people across the country.
Bang Cookies
Cookie Delivery
Bang Cookies is dedicated to delivering the best cookie experience of your life to you. Created in 2016 by owner George, Bang Cookies is a luxe, all-natural, organic cookie company that was built as a response to run-of-the-mill, unsatisfying cookies. But don’t be fooled, their giant cookies are just as rich and sinfully delicious as they are #Instagrammable.
Morrell Wine
Wine Delivery
A pillar of the New York wine scene since 1947, Morrell Wine Group has evolved into a premier national destination for rare and luxury wines. Now based in Briarcliff Manor, the Morrell Fine Retail Store offers a personalized experience for collectors and connoisseurs alike, backed by decades of expertise and an unparalleled inventory.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What are virtual corporate events?
Virtual corporate events are online gatherings for teams that do not gather together in-person.
What are the best team-building activities for remote employees?
The best team-building activities are ones that bring together remote employees for a unique experience like tastings, trivia, or other fun moments.
How do virtual corporate events improve employee engagements?
Virtual corporate events improve employee engagements by allowing space and time for remote teams to gather and build camaraderie without breaking budgets through flights and hotels.
What are some remote employee engagement ideas?
Some great remote employee engagement ideas are trivia, beer tastings, wine tastings, cooking classes, cookies, and other treats.
What types of virtual food and beverage experiences are available?
Dinova’s restaurant network has a ton of experiences available. Scan this guide to find one that works best for you!
How can companies make remote team meetings more engaging?
Companies can make remote team meetings more engaging by utilizing a virtual corporate event such as trivia through Dave & Busters, wine tasting from Morrell Wines, or virtual beer tasting with Your Beer Friend.
Are virtual corporate events suitable for hybrid teams?
Absolutely! Hybrid teams are still suitable for virtual corporate events and can benefit from the engagement that comes from connecting with remote teammates.
Dinova Staff | 10.01.24