Corporate Culinary Experiences and Cooking Challenges
Kirk’s Traveling Kitchen provides team building for businesses through Corporate Culinary Experiences, Cooking Challenges, Corporate Iron-Chef events
Corporate Experiences
An active kitchen with sizzling food and sharp knives can be unforgiving and demands solid communication. Not unlike your business. A Kirk’s Traveling Kitchen cooking challenge offers the perfect environment for your corporate team to bond and grow as a unit. A guaranteed morale booster, our cooking and wine tasting programs are designed to act as the new “golf”: an enjoyable setting for a diverse and broad company to network and unite. We have experience working with large, multinational corporations as well as local, boutique companies and firms. With a mouthwatering program list that is constantly expanding, we specialize in customizing our existing programs or designing new offerings to meet your company’s experiential goals. Contact us to find out more about our current program offerings, to discuss your company’s needs and for pricing information.
Interactive Culinary Challenge Options
About Kirk Warner
Kirk Warner, an independent chef, wine educator and culinary consultant, specializes in delivering customized interactive food and beverage experiences with an emphasis on employee development and team unity. Kirk has designed and delivered cooking and tasting programs in locales as diverse as Santa Fe, San Francisco, Luxembourg, London, and Athens.
A native of Paw Paw, Michigan, Kirk began his culinary career at a young age. In his mother's small bistro adjacent to the family winery, he was both waiting tables, giving tours of the winery and preparing simple bistro fare before he was a teenager. Following a nonlinear path, Kirk earned a BA in English Literature from Albion College and started work toward an MFA in Film and Television Studies from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, he discovered a career in food and wine while working in restaurants throughout the country,traveling extensively and reading every cookbook he could get his hands on.
Using a decade of experience as an executive chef, where an active kitchen with sizzling food and sharp knives are unforgiving and demand solid communication, in 2006 Kirk began designing cooking challenges for businesses to emulate what he learned in professional kitchens: nurturing a creative mindset within a group dynamic, effective communication while busy, improving cross-cultural communication, problem solving in a fluid environment, and community building.
Recognized in Food & Wine Magazine, Travel & Leisure, USA Today, Kirk’s Traveling Kitchen, continues to create new entertaining, hands-on cooking events where teams of participants collaborate on various real world business challenges in the context of an active working kitchen while networking and preparing their own
meals.
Corporate Clients
ABECU
ABN AMRO
Amdocs
American Express
Amgen
Anheuser-Busch InBev
ArcelorMittal
Astellas
BBA Aviation
Boeing
Bryan Cave
Celanese
Citi
Deloitte
Duke University Hospital
Enterprise Holdings
Esse Health
Essilor
Fidelity Investments
ICV Partners
Ingersoll Rand
Lenovo
Malisko Engineering
Morgan Stanley
Nestle Purina
Nokia Siemens
Price Waterhouse Coopers
Progressive
Prudential
Raytheon
Rexam
RGA
Rho
Sigma Aldrich
Square
Thomson Reuters
Vestas
Wounded Warrior Project
Wunderman
Young Presidents Organization