With 51% of Americans are currently trying to lose weight and GLP-1 medications are being used by 12% of your attendees, it might warrant reimagining are buffets and event menus.
Meeting menus can go vegetarian, but probably not for every meal and menu item. Planning an event menu with a plant-forward mindset can help incorporate those options into the overall F&B design and energize your attendees.
In this episode of “Eating at a Meeting,” experts share insights on crafting inclusive event menus. Learn how to enhance dining experiences, manage dietary restrictions, and engage guests with unique dishes and interactive elements.
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Jennifer Johnson shares how to plans event menus for guests dietary needs, including her own Autoimmune Disease and gluten intolerance.
Margaret Clegg, MI Gluten Free Gal, shares her experience of living with celiac disease for two decades and what food safety means to her.
By focusing on what can be control when preparing meeting menus for those with food allergies and other dietary needs meeting professionals, caterers and event hosts can provide a plethora of opportunities and create much better experiences.
A hotel chef spills the beans on how meeting and event planners can accommodate the ever-increasing requests for vegetarian/vegan options.
Before you can meet the dietary needs of those who prefer or require plant-based diets, you need to know all the different forms those who consider themselves to be “vegetarians” can take. “Do you have a vegetarian option?” These words once struck fear into the hearts of unprepared banquet servers and venue kitchen staff, who at best would scramble to whip up some brown rice and steamed broccoli in hopes that would satisfy the vegetarian conference-goer’s needs. With almost of fifth of the U.S. population either identifying as vegetarian or interested in going veggie at least part time (7.3 percent…
Food Allergies Psychologically Impact Social Experiences We all have an inherent human emotional need to associate with and be welcomed by others within groups. Whether it’s the kickball team, family, the neighborhood book club or the office, the need to belong is at the heart of each of us feeling accepted, getting attention and gaining/providing support. As we go through life, we are motivated to fulfill these social needs along with our basic needs of food, housing and love. It drives our need to feel good about ourselves. “The need to belong is an intrinsic motivation to affiliate with others…