
Live Online Cooking Classes
as a Virtual Team Building Activity
Our virtual cooking activities help remote workers connect socially with colleagues, clients and their organization as a whole. Our goal is to help you make amazing memories, enjoy, laugh, and have a good time all from the comfort of your own home. Cook and dine together, and most importantly, continue to foster your team relationship.


Boost
Morale
We help Senior Leaders of multinational companies have fun and boost the morale of their remote teams while saving money.

Connect Team Members
We connect remote colleagues worldwide 5x faster, 12x more frequent and 10x cheaper than a traditional in-person event.

Food and
Culture
Over 70 different menus offered by 10 Chefs across 15 countries.

Tailor-made formats
Different formats tailored to your team structure and need.

Ingredient Delivery
Ingredient Box Delivered to every participant prior to the event*
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Personalized Gifts
Personalized kitchen goodies delivered to every participant to make your event unique
200+ Customers, 5.000+ Users Across 50+ Countries and counting...




























Who This Is For
This is for Team Leaders, Happiness Officers, Executive and Personal assistants concerned about employee engagement in remote working environments and looking for innovative, fast and cost effective experiences to bring geographically dispersed employees together in a fun and social way.
Core Concept
Your remote team can have fun together and you can boost your employee engagement and sense of belonging if you organize an international trip and meet in person.
However:
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Travel is still limited because of the pandemic legacy
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Employee happiness professionals invest a ton of effort, time and money to organize such events
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How many international gatherings can your company realistically organize? 1 per year? 1 per quarter?
A Few Customer Testimonials

Amazon Automotive Europe

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Giuseppe Panarese
Head of Amazon Marketplace EU Automotive



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"I want my team to have fun, to do something that really makes them feel like a team and bring them together."
"When we debriefed the experience with ChefPassport the team unanimously considered the experience out of this world."
Story
Giuseppe is the Head of Amazon EU Marketplace Automotive. He manages a sales team across Europe that bring on board 3rd party sellers offering their products on Amazon. His team works mainly on automotive products and in the past it was natural to organize Go-karts as a team building activity. However after some years the team started finding this activity boring and repetitive. So they were looking for alternatives to the usual karting for their corporate virtual events. ChefPassport helped Giuseppe bring together 25 team members during a one of our virtual cooking classes team building Greek events.
Acronis EU Sales Team



Quinn Romo
Cyber Protection Advisor
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"We wanted to have fun with our team scattered across different countries, but it is costly to gather together in person. For a large company like us, virtual corporate events will always be the perfect way to get together teams, especially if employees are spread around the world. It is affordable and people are already used to the digital world. ChefPassport corporate cooking classes are a great, easy and rewarding solution!"
Story
Quinn is the US-based Sales Lead of Acronis, a software company founded in Singapore in 2003 and incorporated in Switzerland in 2008 with employees from all over the world. Quinn wanted to organize a fun and rewarding activity for one of his teams based out of Eastern Europe. ChefPassport helped Quinn bringing together 15 team members on a virtual cooking class team building to Thailand to cook together Pad Thai, one of the most iconic Thai dishes.
Boston Consulting Group

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Mexico
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“We chose ChefPassport among many other companies because of your high professionalism and your incredibly fast turnaround...you delivered our virtual pasta making class from scratch in 48 hours!"
"There are competitors offering a similar service but at an amateur level. ChefPassport is pro stuff.”
Story
Boston Consulting Group Mexico reached out to ChefPassport on Tuesday 21 April as they had planned a corporate virtual event to bond their 15 people remote team across Mexico and USA, but their supplier canceled with short notice 48 hours before the day. In less than 2 days, ChefPassport designed and planned a tailored offer for Boston Consulting Group, focused on Italian tradition, and delivered the experience on 23 April.
Amazon Europe HR Department


Executive Assistant to the Operations Director
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" The ChefPassport Cooking experience was a great way for everyone to be together socially without any stress of the working environment. I also appreciated the flexibility and the attention to detail from the customer service perspective."
Story
Cindy Le Roux is the Executive Assistant to the Operations Director of Amazon EU HR Department.
Cindy noticed how valuable virtual events are in bringing people together from different locations around Europe without discussing work. She reached out to ChefPassport to organise a fun and engaging activity for the teams.
With ChefPassport, Cindy achieved her objective and brought together 12 team members for a Spanish Happy Hour, where they created delicious tapas and fruity Sangria with ChefPassport Top Chef Instructor, direct from his kitchen in Barcelona.
Amazon Business Marketplace Europe


Paul Kikano
Head of Amazon Business Marketplace, Europe
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"I would definitely recommend ChefPassport if you're looking for an alternative to the typical virtual corporate event. This is a great alternative. It’s easily available, easy to organize, fun and different. If we were to do something similar in person, it would probably require more time and budget as we would have to book a place which would tell us that they would only be available after that many days, etc. The fact that we can do this with everyone being at home is great and increases attendance as they can just connect to the event and when done, continue with their lives at home"
Background on Matteo Ressa,
Founder and CEO ChefPassport
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2 MSc in Software Engineering and ICT Management (Honors)
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20 years experience in Digital Product Management leading international projects for major companies including Amazon, Vodafone, BMW

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Founded his first startup Bammet at 25 based on a social network he developed
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Started working with remote teams in 2015 and felt the urge of bringing more fun to geographically dispersed teams
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Quit Amazon in 2018 to create ChefPassport and unite his passions: technology, cooking (inspired by his Italian grandma "nonna Armanda"), and global travel.
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Helped hundreds of remote teams with thousands of participants have fun together while learning something new
Organize Fun Events For Your Remote Team
Old Way
The old way is to organize fun activities with a remote team only when you travel across cities and countries.
Old Result
The old way is to invest time and money to organize a complex international trip a couple of times per year
New Way
Have fun online with your remote team
New Result
Cost effectiv. Companies can organize fun events for their team at 1/10th of the cost
Plan Your Trips And Block Your Calendar Weeks/Months In Advance
Old Way
Organize well in advance your activities when you meet your remote team in person.
Old Result
Long Lead Time. In can take weeks or months to organize an in person gathering
New Way
Have fun with your team in one click. Online events can be set up in 24 hours and are not limited by geography
New Result
Higher Accessibility. Short Lead Time. Online Events can be organized x5 faster than in person event
Invest Time And Effort
Appoint a Project Manager To Lead The Event Organization
Old Way
In-person meetings require inevitable logistic and organizational complexity to set up. Often you have to allocate internal resources for a long time to lead the event organization
Old Result
High organizational complexity
New Way
Online events rely on technology to simplify organization. There is no logistics.
New Result
Online Events reduce the internal effort and complex project management required to organize in person events
Meet Your Remote Team Only 3-4 Times Per Year
(in the best case scenario)
Old Way
Because of the organizational overhead, In-person meetings with geographically dispersed teams cannot happen often, yearly or quarterly on average.
Old Result
Low frequency. Remote teams can have fun together only a few hours per year
New Way
Online events rely on technology to simplify organization. There is no logistics.
New Result
High frequency. Online events can be organized with a 12x higher cadence (monthly or event weekly)
Meet Your Remote Team Only 3-4 Times Per Year
(in the best case scenario)
Old Way
Because of the organizational overhead, In-person meetings with geographically dispersed teams cannot happen often, yearly or quarterly on average.
Old Result
Low frequency. Remote teams can have fun together only a few hours per year
New Way
Online events rely on technology to simplify organization. There is no logistics.
New Result
High frequency. Online events can be organized with a 12x higher cadence (monthly or event weekly)
...In Order To Have Fun
With Your Remote Team...
Yesterday
The old way is to organize fun activities with a remote team only when you travel across cities or countries because remote teams are limited to meet in person by geographical distance. These activities require inevitable logistic costs and organizational complexity to set them up.
Tomorrow
Smart working is here to stay. There will be more and more need for teams to get together regardless their geographical location. Leverage innovative processes, technologies and solutions to bring your remote ream together more frequently.
Why?

Because research shows that a satisfactory, rewarding and fun activity has a high impact on employee engagement ultimately reducing attrition and improving productivity.
More Fun → Higher Employee Engagement → Higher Happiness → Higher Team Spirit → Less risk that an employee wants to leave the company → Less costs for the company to replace the old resource and ramp up a new one.
A multinational company with hundreds of employees can reduce its yearly attrition cost by 24% by organizing frequent fun activities for its staff. This translates for a 20-person team to an average saving of 21K€/year in attrition cost for every 60 minutes spent in highly engaging and fun team activities.
The Secret?
All you need to do is to bring your team together for a fun online event and you can boost your team engagement while saving up to 24% in attrition costs and make the event happen 5x faster, 12x more frequent and 10x cheaper than a traditional in person event.
Frequently Asked Questions
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