Make Holidays Easy for Your Guests and Boost Incremental Sales
The immensely popular Holidays to Go program offers take-home meals and desserts for family celebrations and parties during the holiday season. You can offer the full range of mix-and-match meals and desserts, the pizza bundle or any single component of the program to suit your guests’ tastes and your unit’s capabilities and staffing levels.
The program runs from 10/20/24 to 12/31/24.
Guests choose ready-to-heat options that include a main course of turkey, ham or roast beef, savory sides, bread and pie.
We’ve paired with vendor partners Otis Spunkmeyer®, Sara Lee® and Sweet Street® to offer delicious a la carte desserts to sweeten up the holidays for guests. Additional selections for this year!
Exclusive
Offer from Otis
Your unit can receive up to 4 complimentary cases of cookie tins with your cookie order (while supplies last). See details in the Otis Cookie Flyer.
Pizza bundles (hot pizza, salad, dessert and soda) offer guests a quick, take-home meal during this busy season. Promote all season, especially on Halloween and Thanksgiving Eve—both busy pizza ordering days!
Sara Lee Pies-to-Go
Turnkey Resources
Sara Lee’s turnkey holiday take-home pie program is a proven recipe for success, offering a convenient way for clients and guests to buy holiday pies. See the Pie Guide for details.
Easy-to-follow instructions, order forms and promotional assets help you market and launch Holidays to Go in your café.
Menu Range
The menu items featured in Holidays to Go are traditional dishes beloved by families at their celebrations. These recipes were carefully reviewed and selected based on their ease of production and packaging for your team members.
Mix-and-Match Meals
(Serves 4–6)
PROTEINS
Choose 1
• Carved Smoked Pit Ham with Apricot Maple Glaze
• Herb and Pepper Crusted Roast Beef with Mushroom Gravy
• Roast Turkey with Gravy
HEATABLE SIDES
Choose 3
• Creamed Spinach
• Glazed Carrots
• Green Bean Casserole
• Macaroni and Cheese
• Maple-Glazed Brussels Sprouts
• Mashed Potatoes
• Old-Fashioned Sage Stuffing
• Orange-Roasted Butternut Squash
• Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
• Whipped Sweet Potatoes
DESSERTS
Choose 1
• Apple Pie
• Chocolate Cream Pie
• Dutch Apple Pie
• Pumpkin Pie
• Southern Pecan Pie
BREAD
(includes 1 dozen with each order and Smart Balance Buttery Spread)
Choose 1
• Cracked Pepper and Parmesan Drop Biscuits
• Parker House White Dinner Rolls
(Serves 3-4)
16" PIZZA
(prebaked and hot when guest arrives for pickup)
Choose 1
• Cheese
• Margherita
• Pepperoni
SALAD
Choose 1
• Classic Caesar
• Sausage
• Supreme
• Vegetable
• Traditional Garden
SODA
Includes 2-Liter Soda
DESSERT
Choose 1
• Chocolate Brownies
• Rice Krispies Bars
COOKIES: 8 Flavors
Butter Sugar
Carnival
Chocolate Chip
Double Chocolate Chip
Lemon Burst
Oatmeal Raisin
Peanut Butter
Turtle
White
Chocolate Macadamia
Desserts
(Sold A La Carte)
PIES: 8 Flavors
Apple
Cherry Krunch
Chocolate Cream
Chocolate Cream
Peanut Butter Silk
Chocolate Mint Cream
Dutch Apple
Fruits of the Forest
Pumpkin
Southern Pecan
DESSERTS: 4 Flavors
Caramel Brownie Bite
Cheesecake
Flourless Chocolate Torte (Gluten Free)
Molten Chocolate Cake
Pumpkin Swirl Pullman Cake
How the Program Works
Holidays to Go is easy to implement at your location. We provide all the tools you’ll need to run a successful promotion. The dates for this program are flexible. You can begin promotions in October and continue through the end of the year.
RECIPES
• Use the Recipe List to find DRIVE MSP and FMS recipe numbers for all Holidays to Go items.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
• Preplanned mix-and-match menus and selected vendor products are consistently available through our supply chain and ensure profitability.
• Editable marketing assets and order forms allow you to select the most appealing menu items for your guests.
PROMOTION
• Editable counter cards announce the program.
• Digital screens and emails promote program details and dates.
ORDERS
• Guests use Holidays to Go Order Form to place orders.
• Team members answer questions and assist guests placing orders.
PAYMENT
• Customer payment can be collected using any means currently available at your site. Contactless payment is highly recommended where available.
FULFILLMENT
• Your team prepares the guests’ orders.
• At designated area and time, guests pick up orders.
Launch Tool Kit
MARKETING THE PROGRAM
This program includes a comprehensive set of marketing materials to help you effectively advertise and build interest in this product offer.
DIGITAL RESOURCES
Visit Holidays to Go on Retail Ranger at us-retailranger.sodexo.com to find digital marketing assets.
PRINT RESOURCES
In your kit, you’ll find a banner to help you market Holidays to Go.
OFFER IMPULSE DESSERTS
Prepare a variety of desserts each day and place at checkout registers to encourage impulse purchases.
DIGITAL ORDERING PLATFORM
To advertise the menu on your CaterTrax site, download the Holidays to Go Order Form from Retail Ranger and customize it with the menu items you’re offering, adding run time, payment and pickup instructions. Submit a support ticket to CaterTrax, add the title “Advertise Fall Holidays to Go” and attach your order form to the ticket. Request that the menu be advertised on your homepage. CaterTrax has an advertising graphic for the Fall Holidays to Go menu and will link your order form to the graphic.
PRICING
The Holidays to Go program is available in the Holidays to Go pricing tool on Retail Ranger. Guests will appreciate the talents and time of your café staff in preparing takeaway meals and desserts, allowing you to place a higher value and price on Holidays to Go menu items than on regular café selections. The pricing tool will help you identify the most appropriate pricing for the Holidays to Go program at your location.
PACKAGING AND LABELING
The Visual Guide to Packaging and Labeling for Holidays to Go details how to package and label each menu item. Keep it handy for team members who are fulfilling orders.
Packaging
Please use the specific packaging and labeling for each meal component so orders can be transported safely and with ease.
Labeling
For labeling cold and hot menu items, please use the templates found on Retail Ranger at us-retailranger. sodexo.com. Use Printables for dessert labels.
AT-HOME REHEATING INSTRUCTIONS
With all orders, the At-Home Reheating Instructions should be provided to the guest and attached to the order.
FOOD SAFETY GUIDANCE
Food safety is of utmost importance and HACCP food safety guidelines and procedures must be followed for Holidays to Go products offered for sale to guests for take-home through all stages of preparation, cooking, cooling, holding, packaging, display and storing.
Take-home products must be labeled with this information:
• Product name, ingredients and potential allergens
• Storage instructions
• Reheating instructions (as applicable)
Check local and state Health Department regulations for additional labeling requirements. Refer to Sodexo’s 1.2.6 Packaged Goods for Retail Sale Guidelines for additional information.
MEAL BUNDLE PIZZA
SAMPLE ORDER FORM
Holidays to Go Checklist
Take these steps to implement the Holidays to Go program for your guests.
01
Review Holidays to Go materials on Retail Ranger.
Share the recipes with your chef. Be sure to review the Distribution Matrix/ Grocery List under Holidays to Go on Retail Ranger.
Meet with your client and explain the program.
02
Set your pricing using the Holidays to Go Pricing Tool on Retail Ranger.
Set up the menu items in your Point of Sale PRIOR to accepting orders.
Determine run dates for the program at your location.
Download digital assets and market the program to guests. Display print assets in your café.
Determine staffing needs and decide how quickly you can fulfill orders.
Identify adequate safe storage, following safe food handling policies.
Designate a team member to receive orders and one area for order pickup.
03
Accept orders from guests.
Order ingredients and vendor partner products.
Order packaging and labels. Prepare meals for takeaway orders.
Package orders during select date and time windows, providing At-Home
Reheating Instructions with each order.
Turnkey Resources
Click on the Download arrow below to access the forms you’ll need to run Holidays to Go. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT HOLIDAYS TO GO, CONTACT:
OPERATIONAL
• Distribution Matrix: Consolidated list of ingredients by distribution centers with manufacturer information.
• Master Spreadsheet: Complete list of all recipe names for meals, desserts and pizza with FMS and Drive numbers and suggested pricing. Also includes list of packaging manufacturer names, product numbers, pack sizes and links.
• Order Form: Preloaded with item names for convenience and editable to reflect the menu you’re offering.
• Pricing Tool: Set, review and adjust pricing at your account twice per year with this price optimization tool.
• Recipe List: At-a-glance list of recipe names and descriptions, recipe numbers, portions and costing information.
• Visual Guide to Packaging and Labeling: Illustrated guide showing how to package and label menu items.
MARKETING
• Counter Cards: Designed ads to print for signage.
• Digital Assets: Dozens of designed assets to download for digital displays, social media and more.
• Editable Brochure: Customizable marketing pamphlet to advertise your program.
• Printable Assets: Editable assets to print for brochures, counter cards, napkin ads and Word templates for additional marketing.
Erica Milios Vice President, Guest and Operator Experience Erica.Milios@Sodexo.com
