Brunch All Day

Because it is the one menu that is never wrong for the hour. A distributed team on a single call is never all eating at the same time of day, and brunch food solves that: eggs benedict is perfectly reasonable at 9am in Denver and at 6pm in Dublin. The mood helps too. Brunch is unhurried by definition, which sets a different tone than another lunch-and-learn. Your team cooks live on Zoom with a professional chef leading and a Rockoly host holding the room together, in 60 minutes.

From a British magazine, and from a hangover. The word was proposed in 1895 by a writer named Guy Beringer in a piece titled Brunch: A Plea, which argued that Sunday's heavy early breakfast should give way to a later, lighter, more sociable meal, partly so that people who had been out on Saturday night could sleep in. The word stuck. The argument, honestly, still holds.

The dishes carry their own histories. French toast is called pain perdu in France, lost bread, because the whole point was rescuing a stale loaf nobody wanted. Hollandaise is one of the five French mother sauces codified by Escoffier: an emulsion of butter into egg yolk that splits if it gets too hot or is pushed too fast. And shakshuka takes its name from a Maghrebi Arabic word for a mixture, which is exactly what it is.

That hollandaise is the best argument for doing this live. It is precisely where a written recipe abandons people, and where a chef watching your pan does not.

Five workshops, each 60 minutes:

• French Toast: almond crusted, with fresh strawberries and maple syrup.
• Eggs Benedict: toasted English muffin, Canadian bacon, a properly poached egg and hollandaise.
• Shakshuka and Pita: eggs poached in spiced tomato sauce with warm, fluffy pita.
• Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup: the comfort option, and a reliable conversation starter.
• Falafel: crisp chickpea falafel with vegetables and tahini, with an optional cabbage salad.

On the French toast, eggs benedict and shakshuka menus you can add a cocktail session for another 30 minutes, and the chef walks everyone through a bloody mary or a mimosa. Add a coffee tasting instead and you explore origins, roast levels and brewing with beans from small farms. Grilled cheese and falafel take a wine pairing.

It is what these brunch workshops were built for. Zoom is the default, and Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and WebEx all work if your company standardizes elsewhere. Ingredients are delivered internationally, including to Australia, the UK, Canada, Sweden, Ireland, Germany, South Africa, Mexico, India and Spain, and shipping within the US is free and insured, so a delayed kit gets replaced rather than argued about. Anyone outside a delivery zone can take a shopping list and cook right alongside everyone else.

Nothing in the format ties it to your payroll, though your planner is the one to confirm the guest list with. Everything here is priced and shipped per participant: your planner collects each address individually, so a kit reaches a client's kitchen the same way it reaches an employee's, and guests cook live on the same call as your team. Count them in the headcount you give your planner, since the per-person rate is set by group size and a few extra people can tip you into a lower tier. Ask for their dietary needs at the same time as everyone else's, which costs nothing extra.

From 5 to 30 people it is $139 to $149 per person, with French toast, eggs benedict, shakshuka and falafel at the upper end and grilled cheese at the lower. The per-person rate drops for 31 to 50 people, and drops again above 50. Groups under five book as a flat event, $695 to $745 depending on the menu.

The rate includes your personal chef, a dedicated event planner, a Zoom host who runs the engagement games and monitors the chat, all ingredients delivered, and gratuities. Customization is free, dietary adjustments are free, and kits feed a family of four, so partners and kids can join on the same screen without a surcharge.

Yes. Every menu here lists a gluten-free option and a vegan option, and shakshuka, French toast and grilled cheese are vegetarian as written. Eggs benedict has a vegetarian version without the Canadian bacon, and falafel is naturally gluten-free and vegetarian. Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, kosher and no-alcohol needs are all accommodated at no extra cost when shared in advance. The cocktail add-on is entirely optional, and a brunch built around a coffee tasting instead of mimosas is just as good an event.

Fill out the inquiry form on this page and a planner will come back with menu options, timezone-friendly slots and open dates. The time of day is the conversation worth having on this page specifically, because brunch is the one menu that reads correctly at 9am and at 6pm, which gives a distributed team far more usable windows than a dinner menu would.

Give it about three weeks so kits reach every participant, and ask about rush dates if your window is tighter, since they are sometimes possible depending on chef availability. A $250 deposit secures the date, payable by credit card, ACH transfer or check. Cancel at least 48 hours before the event, or within 24 hours of purchase, for a full refund, and reschedule up to 48 hours ahead.

Every booking carries the Love Your Event Guarantee, so if the event does not live up to expectations we will make it right. You can also call (617) 939-9732 or email events@rockoly.com.