{"id":5004,"date":"2015-11-03T14:06:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acendas.sitesbysix.com\/?p=5004"},"modified":"2015-11-03T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:06:15","slug":"los-angeles-duo-helps-businesses-reinvent-the-lunch-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acendas.com\/corporate\/los-angeles-duo-helps-businesses-reinvent-the-lunch-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking bread could help reinvent the lunch meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pair of 30-somethings in Los Angeles have discovered a new way to make a day long meeting feel a little less like work.<\/p>\n

Carolyn Sams and Isis Krause met while working together at GOOD Magazine and GOODcorps, the magazine’s social-impact consultancy. The pair collaborated on a popup comunity store. One of their first meals was for 100 people and was based around stone fruit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw how people opened up over food and had a much more authentic conversation,\u201d said Krause told Covene Magazine<\/a>. \u201cYou\u2019re more of your real self than your work self when you\u2019re eating a delicious meal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The popup community store led them to found First Seating in January 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe literally had the same light bulb at the same moment of \u2018Wow, what if we gathered people together in this workshop, or meeting-type setting, to talk about these big issues and questions of social impact, of how to do our best work, live our best lives, and do that in a way that\u2019s beautiful and fun and engaging and delicious?\u201d Krause recalled.<\/p>\n

GOODcorps was First Seating’s first client.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey took a risk on us,\u201d Krause said, \u201cbecause they really believed in us, and it was a great way to start our business.\u201d<\/p>\n

First Seating is growing by word of mouth with most meetings taking place in Los Angeles. But First Seating has also worked with groups in New York and San Francisco.<\/p>\n

The pair requests at least four weeks of lead time to create not only a meal, but also an experience to remember.<\/p>\n

“We felt like people are always starting from square zero when they arrive in a room together,” Krause said. “It\u2019s such precious time to have your entire team take a full day to think through something, so we felt there was a big need for us to do some of that thinking in advance so we could get to a much stronger, deeper place together.\u201d<\/p>\n

First Seating workshops range in size from 2 to 100, and average between 8 and 12.<\/p>\n

Read more about First Seating via Convene Magazine here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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