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Treat Your Clients to a Holiday Progressive Lunch or Dinner

by Bridget Wright on December 17th, 2007

This is a great holiday idea for your clients if you work in a corporate setting with different clients or there are multiple sales and marketing people in branch offices. Treat them to a progressive dinner! What’s that you say? Well, it’s an idea that’s a lot of fun and clients would get a kick out of. Generally done among friends and neighbors, it’s where the courses of a meal are served at various homes and the homeowner is the host. Our resident expert, Julie Bonner made a post about it over at She Knows Parties and explains it best:

“What is a progressive dinner? It’s a chance for more than one person to play host and provide food for the party. For this party there is some traveling involved, which makes is so much fun. The party travels from house-to-house. One house provides the appetizers, one house provides the dinner and one house provides the dessert. Everyone travels to the first house and shares appetizers together. When you are finished with the appetizers, everyone loads up in their cars and heads over to the next house for the main course. After the main course is finished, it’s time to travel to the last house for dessert.”

Now, let me tell you how I think it would work in an office setting. First, decide which satellite office will serve what courses. If you don’t have that many satellite offices, consider just serving appetizers and drinks at one place and then heavier hors d’oeuvres and deserts at another. This would work best if served during business hours. But, if you decide to have the progressive dinner during the evening hours, you can determine a menu that will be palatable for your clients taste and the nature of your business.

If your building is large enough and has multiple offices inside, this progressive dinner idea would work excellently with that. Just set up each office or cubicle space with the layers of the meal and let the person who occupies that office be the host. You can also use this time as a marketing tool to pitch to your clients new ideas or show them new sales talent in your office. You can be creative in SO many ways with this idea of a progressive dinner. Your clients will be happy that you did.

Share with me if you think this would be a great idea for clients and some tips on what you would do to make it work.

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