Chef Mike DiLeo’s CORPORATE GUARANTEE
A Corporate Event
Has a Job to Do
There is a peculiar thing
about the corporate party.
Companies will spend $25K, $50K, even
$100K putting people in a room together
and then call it an “event.”
Is it?
That may be what it looks like on the accounting ledger.
It may not be what it actually is.
Because when you bring your most important people together, the employees, some great clients, the partners, potential prospects, the executives and the people whose opinions matter.
You are (or should be) doing something considerably more consequential than feeding them a dinner and drinks.
Moreover, it is an opportunity to alert the mainstream media …
(provided the event created is something remarkable for them write about).
Without telling them
who you are.
You’re showing them.And now they are listening.
Executive Chef Mike DiLeo’s Corporate Guarantee was built around the idea that : a great corporate event should be treated as an experience, not an expense. The objective is to always serve great food.
Yes, and Chef Mike does it in spades.
It is to create an evening that makes people feel something about the company that put it together and leave an indelible impression on them well after the last call.
That distinction matters.
Advertising rents attention. The moment you stop paying for it, the attention generally disappears. An editorial article in the news media, blogs or webpages carries 10X more weight and lives long online.
A well-produced event is this differentiating factor.
IMAGINE that you are standing in the same room with the people who matter most to your business. You are showing them how you operate, how you treat people, what you value and your excellent sense of taste and, perhaps most importantly, whether you understand the difference between putting on a party or creating a memory.
All this without saying a word about it.
Chef Mike DiLeo’s Corporate Guarantee takes that responsibility quite seriously.
It the objective is fun. He does just that.
From the first passed hors d’oeuvre to the last dessert, the promise is to offer consistency: the same standard whether there are 35 guests or 350. One team is accountable for the experience rather than a collection of vendors who disappear behind one another when something goes awry.
And the client is never expected to become the event manager for the evening.
They never paid for that to happen.
So here is where this
concept and idea can
become particularly
interesting for a business.
Executive Chef Mike DiLeo’s research behind the
CORPORATE GUARANTEE points toward a larger question:
What does it actually cost a company when its people
stop caring or the bromance or romance is gone?
The ExecutiveChefMike.com/stats research cites published figures from organizations including :
Gallup,
McKinsey,
Harvard Business Review,
Deloitte,
SHRM
and WorkHuman concerning employee engagement, retention and recognition. The page makes a deliberately provocative argument:
If one good event can strengthen belonging and recognition, the financial conversation changes : from LOSS to PROFIT.
The question is no longer simply,
“What does the party cost?”It becomes,
“What is the cost of doing nothing?”
That does not mean a party magically produces a guaranteed financial return. The research itself notes that the figures are directional and that results vary by business. (Executive Chef Mike)
But it does suggest something worth considering.
Corporate Events are a big fat “ Yes! ”
Showing people that you care may have
considerably more business value than
simply telling them that you do.
INSERT THE “Actions speaks louder than words” cliche here.
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And that is why WHO is in the room matters.
Chef Mike’s corporate program is designed as a complete experience rather than a menu and cuisine dropped into a venue.
Current offerings range from (Signature) $15K – $20,000 gatherings through (Executive) $50,000–$75,000 productions, with the experience expanding as the scale increases.
Starting from passed hors d’oeuvres, grazing tables and live pasta stations to curated carving and seafood stations, full event management, entertainment, AV equipment photography, videographer and media assets, lighting and, at the highest level, a four-course sit-down dinner. (Executive Chef Mike)
Behind it is a curated network that can bring together craft breweries and locally sourced spirits, D.O.C. & D.O.C.G. Italian wines, homemade desserts, DJs and entertainment, luxury décor, photography, video and other production elements designed to impress. (Executive Chef Mike)
In other words, you are not hiring
five vendors and hoping they
behave like one company.
You approve one plan.
Then Chef Mike and his team execute it.
The process begins with a VISION call:
a conversation about the objective(s),
how many in the audience,
budget and constraints.
From there comes a custom concept,
venue and vendor recommendations,
a line-item budget, planning and production,
on-site execution and finally post-event
reporting that can include attendee feedback,
ROI metrics, photography and video.
(Executive Chef Mike)
That is a very different proposition from
“Where should we have the holiday party?”
It is closer to asking:
What do we want this room to say about us?
Because the room is saying something.
The cuisine says something.
The hospitality is saying something.
The way employees are treated is also saying something.
And when the evening is over, what people remember about the company may have very little to do with the invoice.
Showing that you care beats talking about it.
A corporate event has a specific job to do.
Chef Mike’s Corporate Guarantee
is built to make sure that it does
exactly that.
CONTACT :
Chef Mike DiLeo
Contact number : (917) 662-0989
Email : Mike@ExecutiveChefMike.com
Website : ExecutiveChefMike.com
Order : Call Mike direct
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