Make Spring Holidays Easy for Your Guests and Boost Incremental Sales
The immensely popular Holidays to Go program offers take-home meals and desserts for family gatherings during Easter and Passover. 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 March to April.
Mix-and-Match Meals and Desserts for Easter
Guests choose ready-to-heat options that include a main course of ham, roast beef, roast pork or chicken and savory sides, bread and a choice of cake, cookies or pie.
Pizza Meal to Go
Whenever guests gather, pizza is always popular. Pizza bundles (hot pizza, salad, dessert and soda) offer guests a quick, takehome meal every day!
Mix-and-Match Meals and Desserts for Passover
Guests choose ready-to-heat options that include a main course of roast beef or chicken and savory sides, bread and cakes or cookies.
Sara Lee’s Take-Home Pie Program
Generate revenue for your café by offering a delicious lineup of Sara Lee’s restaurant-quality pies for guests to take home and enjoy.
Turnkey Resources
Ready-to-Serve Desserts
We’ve paired with vendor partners Otis Spunkmeyer® and Sara Lee® to offer delicious a la carte desserts to sweeten up the gathering.
Exclusive Offer from Otis
Your unit can receive up to 6 complimentary cases of cookie jars (4 jars in each case) with your cookie order, while supplies last.
Easy-to-follow instructions, order forms and promotional assets help you market and launch Holidays to Go in your café.
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Menu Range
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.
MIX-AND-MATCH MEALS
Serves 4–6
PROTEIN
Choose 1
Carved Smoked Pit Ham with Pineapple Chutney
Herb and Pepper Crusted Roast Beef with au Jus
Italian-Style Roasted Whole Chicken with Tomato and Kalamata Olive Relish
Roasted Pork Loin with Apricot Mustard Glaze
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
SIDES
Choose 3
Charred Carrots with Thyme
Country Mashed Potatoes
Creamed Spinach
Green Beans with Toasted Almonds
Macaroni and Cheese
Roasted Balsamic Vegetables
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Roasted Rosemary Red Bliss Potatoes
Sautéed Asparagus and Grape Tomatoes
Scalloped Potatoes
Passover
Kosher Style
PROTEIN
Choose 1
Herb and Pepper Crusted Roast Beef with au Jus
Italian-Style Roasted Whole Chicken with Tomato and Kalamata Olive Relish
BREAD
(includes 1 dozen with each order and Smart Balance Buttery Spread)
Choose 1
Parker House White Dinner Rolls
DESSERTS
Choose 1
Double Chocolate Layer Cake
Iced Carrot Layer Cake
Red Velvet Layer Cake
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Butter Sugar Cookies
Carnival Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
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Coconut Meringue Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie
Desserts
SIDES
Choose 3
Charred Carrots with Thyme
Roasted Balsamic Vegetables
Roasted Rosemary Red Bliss Potatoes
DESSERTS
Choose 1
Double Chocolate Layer Cake
Iced Carrot Layer Cake
Red Velvet Layer Cake
Butter Sugar Cookies
Carnival Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
Butter Sugar
Carnival
(Sold Separately) COOKIES 5 Flavors
Chocolate Chip
Oatmeal Raisin
White Chocolate Macadamia Nut
Cookie Program Information
DESSERTS
Cakes
Double Chocolate Layer Cake
Iced Carrot Layer Cake
Red Velvet Layer Cake
Pies
Coconut Meringue Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie
Take-Home Pie Program Information
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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 program runs March to April.
• 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.
RECIPES 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.
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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.
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Visit Holidays to Go on Retail Ranger at us-retailranger.sodexo.com to find digital marketing assets.
OFFER IMPULSE DESSERTS
Prepare a variety of desserts each day and place at checkout registers to encourage impulse purchases.
PRINTED RESOURCES
Display the banner found in the Winter-Spring 2024 Mutualized Promotions Kit to help you market Holidays to Go.
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 Spring 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 Spring 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 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.
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PACKAGING AND LABELING
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.
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.
MEAL BUNDLE PIZZA
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 Foods for Retail Sale Guidelines for additional information.
PACKAGING and LABELING GUIDE
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REQUIRED GUEST INFORMATION WHEN ORDER IS PLACED
Guest’s name and contact information
Pickup day and time noted
SAMPLE ORDER FORM
Choices selected in each menu category
Edit ordering requirements and availability dates
HOW TO CUSTOMIZE FORM FOR YOUR LOCATION Edit unit name and contact Add order due date Edit menu choices offered Add price(s)
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Holidays to Go Checklist
Take these steps to implement the Holidays to Go program for your guests.
01
GETTING STARTED
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.
02
LOCATION SETUP
Set your pricing using the Holidays to Go pricing tool.
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.
03
SELLING MEALS
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.
OPERATIONAL
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 and Operator Experience
Erica.Milios@Sodexo.com
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT HOLIDAYS TO GO,
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