Delicious Take-Home Meals and Desserts for Mother’s Day Celebrations
It’s time for Mother’s Day celebrations, filled with family gatherings and great food. The immensely popular Holidays to Go program offers take-home meals and desserts for Mother’s Day, inspiring families to spend time making memories with each other, rather than being busy in the kitchen cooking and baking for Mom’s special day. You can offer the full range of mix-and-match meals and desserts or any single component of the program to suit your guests’ tastes and your unit’s capabilities and staffing levels. Since pizza is always popular for family gatherings, you can also offer Pizza Meals to Go throughout the year.
The program runs in May.
Ready-to-heat options include a main course of roast chicken or ham, a brunch main of stuffed French toast, quiche or mini sandwiches, plus savory sides, bread and a decadent dessert.
Whenever guests gather, pizza is always popular. Pizza bundles (hot pizza, salad, dessert and soda) offer guests a quick, take-home meal every day!
We’ve paired with vendor partners Otis Spunkmeyer® and Sara Lee® to offer delicious a la carte desserts to sweeten up the gathering.
pies offer convenient (and delicious) desserts for every celebration.
Exclusive Offer from Otis
Your unit can receive up to 6 complimentary cases of cookie jars (24 jars) with your cookie order.
Sara Lee’s takeaway
The menu items featured in Holidays to Go are traditional dishes beloved by families at their spring gatherings. These recipes were carefully reviewed and selected based on their ease of production and packaging for your team members.
Serves 4–6
Choose 1 Protein and 1 Brunch Dish
PROTEINS
• Carved Smoked Pit Ham with Apricot Mustard Glaze
• Italian-Style Roasted Chicken with Tomato and Kalamata Olive Relish
BRUNCH DISHES
• Banana Nut Nutella Stuffed French Toast (6 servings)
• Quiche Lorraine (1 quiche with 6 wedges)
• Mini Brunch Sandwiches (6 Smoked Salmon and Cucumber on Mini Bagels and 6 Ham and Gruyère on Mini Croissants)
SIDES
Choose 3
HEATABLE
• Charred Carrots with Thyme
• Green Beans Southern Style
• Macaroni and Cheese
• Oven-Roasted Greek Fries
• Roasted Balsamic Brussels Sprouts
• Roasted Beets with Thyme
• Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
• Roasted Sweet Potatoes
SALADS
• Classic Caesar Salad with Dressing
• Country-Style Potato Salad
• Garden Salad with Dressing
• Lemony Chickpea Salad
• Quinoa Cucumber Salad
• Toasted Lentil Salad
Desserts (Sold Separately)
Cookies
• Butter Sugar
• Carnival
• Chocolate Chip
• Oatmeal Raisin
• White Chocolate Macadamia Nut
Cookie Program Information
Brownies
Peanut Butter Fudge Brownies (6)
Choose 1
• Dutch Apple Pie
• Lemon Meringue Pie
• Peanut Butter Fudge Brownies (6)
• Red Velvet Layer Cake
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
Cakes and Pies
• Dutch Apple Pie
• Lemon Meringue Pie
• Red Velvet Layer Cake
Holidays to Go is easy to implement at your location. We provide all the tools you’ll need to run a successful promotion. The program runs in May.
• Use the Recipe List to find DRIVE MSP and FMS recipe numbers for all Holidays to Go items.
• 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.
• Editable counter cards announce the program.
• Digital screens and emails promote program details and dates.
• Guests use Holidays to Go Order Form to place orders.
• Team members answer questions and assist guests placing orders.
• Customer payment can be collected using any means currently available at your site. Contactless payment is highly recommended where available.
• Your team prepares the guests’ orders.
• At designated area and time, guests pick up orders.
This program includes a comprehensive set of marketing materials to help you effectively advertise and build interest in this product offer.
Visit Holidays to Go on Retail Ranger at us-retailranger.sodexo.com to find digital marketing assets.
Prepare a variety of desserts each day and place at checkout registers to encourage impulse purchases.
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 Mother’s Day 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 Mother’s Day Holidays to Go menu and will link your order form to the graphic.
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 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.
The Packaging and Labeling Guide for Holidays to Go details how to package and label each menu item. Keep it handy for team members who are fulfilling orders.
Please use the specific packaging and labeling for each meal component so orders can be transported safely and with ease.
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.
With all orders, the At-Home Cooking Instructions should be provided to the guest and attached to the order.
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 Foods for Retail Sale Guidelines for additional information.
REQUIRED GUEST INFORMATION WHEN ORDER IS PLACED
Guest’s
Pickup day and time noted
Choices selected in each menu category
Take these steps to implement the Holidays to Go program for your guests.
Review Holidays to Go materials on Retail Ranger.
Share the recipes with your chef. Be sure to review the Distribution Matrix under Holidays to Go on Retail Ranger.
Meet with your client and explain the program.
Set your pricing using the Holidays to Go Pricing Tool on Retail Ranger.
Add Holidays to Go to POS system, if not using Infor.
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.
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 to access the forms you’ll need to run Holidays to Go.
Distribution Matrix: Consolidated list of ingredients by distribution centers with manufacturer information.
Order Form: Preloaded with item names for convenience and editable to reflect the menu you’re offering.
Packaging and Labeling Guide: Illustrated guide showing how to package and label menu items.
Packaging Guide: List of manufacturer names, product numbers, pack sizes and links.
Pricing Tool: Set, review and adjust pricing at your account twice per year with this price optimization tool.
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
Erica.Milios@Sodexo.com