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Eating is the perfect entry point for people to reflect, connect, and have a unique experience.

Food Loyal introduces unique and memorable elements to catered events and ultimately connects people with a message, story, or idea, as told through the event.

We create events with tailor-made menus and experiences for each of our clients. We believe it is important to think together with our clients. That’s why each experience is thoughtfully planned to the tiniest detail. Your guests will never forget their Food Loyal event. Give your guests a new perspective, something thoughtfully different, and a new way to experience your special event: Food Loyal. For a quote or questions, please visit our contact page.

What can Food Loyal do for you?

 Incite interaction amongst strangers during an event
Using half plates – dinner plates cut down the middle with a diamond tipped saw – guests were only served one half of their meal on both sides of their plates; they then had to swap halves of plates with other guests in order to make a full meal.

Design out of the ordinary food events
Pietopia is an event hosted every year at the farmer’s market. Prior to the event, the city hosting the event asks for entries: What does your life taste like, in a pie? At the event, the winners bring their pies for people to taste. What people are tasting is not only the pies, but the flavor of someone’s life. This is always a conversation starter for everyone at the market!

Use food to teach something new
Food, especially the sense of taste, was used to teach a group of sixth graders about the cultivation of civilization in Mesopotamia. A taste-station rotation was created for two groups of 30 sixth graders to go through—experiencing a different flavor to taste at each station (salty, sweet, bitter, pungent, sour, astringent), along with a geography, plant biology, color theory, and history lesson. We tasted, we wrote, and we connected foods from past to present. We then made small mezze plates with the ingredients from our rotation to experience the flavors mingling together, as well as reflect on the histories and geographies.

Create experiences based on a custom/tailored theme
A lunch was created that expressly thanked a group of women who were influential in our client’s recovery from anorexia nervosa. The meal was based on the foods that were pivotal in her recovery process. The guests did not know each other prior to the meal but were linked through our client. We created a large box that went down the middle of the table, with holes cut into the top. Over each opening was a dessert with a part of this woman’s story attached to the underside. Each guest took a dessert, and as they did so, pulled out the ribbon that was attached and threaded through the hole of the box. On the ribbon was a sentence from a story the woman wrote about her recovery and each guest’s role. Each guest then read aloud the part of the story written on her dessert. We also made a braid of all of this woman’s tiniest clothes – and each guest could cut a piece from it to take home with them as a way to not only remember the meal, but also to help this woman lighten her load, get rid of the old, and make room for the new.

Dinners with a twist and meals to think about
Uprooted was an event designed to discuss the hosts’ sense or feeling of Uprootedness in the context of Americanism and in the Thanksgiving holiday tradition. Pertinent words were letter-pressed using squid ink onto root vegetables that adorned the center of the table, while others were stenciled with spices or written with icing on the tops of pies, puddings, and bread. The food served came from family recipes that were passed down but tweaked with each generation, adding another element of place or placeless-ness to the meal.

Food as the vehicle to communicate a story, idea, or message
Food served to a group of veterans who served together in a specific region – many of whom had not eaten that particular food since the war. It was a way to remember collectively and talk openly.

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