How your office meal plan starts
Setting up a daily meal plan for a company begins with a short brief, not paperwork. We ask about your office location, daily headcount, meal times, dietary spread and any serving equipment already on site. This tells us whether you need boxed meals, a buffet line or live counters, and how many colleagues from our own team should be on site at mealtimes.
- Brief: we confirm headcount, delivery windows, site access and any recurring dietary needs across your office.
- Tasting: before any booking, we run a free tasting so your admin, HR or procurement lead can assess portion size, flavour and presentation firsthand. We quote after the tasting, once the menu and setup are agreed.
- Delivery: once confirmed, meals begin on the agreed date, cooked in our Abu Dhabi Industrial City (ICAD II) kitchens and delivered by our own team, not a third party.
Most companies move from first enquiry to a working meal plan within a matter of days, because the tasting removes the guesswork before anything is agreed. For ongoing or monthly supply, the same brief-and-tasting process applies whether you are catering for one office floor or several sites across the emirate.
We keep the plan flexible after launch too. If headcount changes, if you add a second office, or if feedback from colleagues points to a change in the rotation, we adjust the plan rather than asking you to start again. Procurement and admin leads tell us this is what makes the difference between a one-off delivery and a meal service that actually holds up over months.
Hygiene and food safety behind every meal
Feeding more than 7,000 meals a day requires food-safety discipline that holds up under volume, not just on a good day. Our kitchens in Abu Dhabi Industrial City (ICAD II) operate under ISO 22000 and HACCP, covering everything from raw material intake to final delivery.
- Temperature control: hot and cold chains are monitored from cooking through to loading, so meals arrive at your office at safe serving temperatures.
- Traceability: ingredients are logged by batch, which means any query about a specific delivery can be traced back through preparation and sourcing.
- HACCP checkpoints: critical control points are checked at each stage of production, not only at the end of the line.
- ISO 22000 management: our food safety management system is audited to this standard across the kitchen and delivery operation, not treated as a one-off certificate on a wall.
For a procurement or admin lead, this matters practically: it means you can ask us directly for batch records or delivery temperature logs on any given day, and we can produce them. It also means our hygiene practice does not change when volume spikes - the same checks apply whether we are supplying one office or twenty two client organisations at once.
Compliance documentation, including our ISO 22000 and HACCP certificates, is available on request as part of the document pack we prepare for procurement teams, so your internal audit or vendor approval process has what it needs without a separate ask.
Delivery windows, setup and collection
Daily meal supply only works if delivery is reliable at the same time, every working day. Because delivery, setup and serving are handled by our own team rather than outsourced, we can align delivery windows to your office's actual mealtimes rather than a generic slot.
- Delivery windows: agreed at the brief stage around your office's lunch or breakfast timing, with consistency built in for daily and weekly supply.
- Setup: our team can set up buffet lines, boxed meal stations or live counters on arrival, so your office does not need to manage the logistics internally.
- Serving staff: for offices that want a served rather than self-serve experience, our own serving colleagues can be present at mealtimes.
- Collection: equipment, trays and serving units are collected after service, keeping your office space clear outside mealtimes.
This setup applies whether your office is in Abu Dhabi, Dubai or Sharjah, or elsewhere in the wider UAE. Distance from our ICAD II kitchens is planned into delivery scheduling, not treated as an afterthought, which is part of why the delivery window stays consistent day to day.
For companies running multiple office locations, we coordinate delivery across sites on the same rotation and the same schedule, so each location receives a comparable standard of meal and service rather than the plan varying by site. If your office layout or headcount changes, we revisit the delivery and setup plan rather than leaving it fixed to the original brief.
Why companies choose Dana Prime for office meal plans
Dana Prime has been cooking at scale since 1998, and today prepares more than 7,000 meals a day from our kitchens in Abu Dhabi Industrial City (ICAD II). That volume is handled with our own delivery, setup and serving team, not a mix of external providers, which gives us direct control over timing, presentation and hygiene from kitchen to table.
- Own kitchens and team: meals are cooked, delivered and served by Dana Prime staff, so accountability sits in one place.
- Capacity: more than 7,000 meals a day means a single office plan or a multi-site rollout is handled with the same operational rigour.
- Menu depth: 136 dishes across 16 courses support a genuine rotation rather than a repeated set menu.
- Tasting before booking: every plan is tasted first, so your admin or procurement team assesses the food before agreeing anything.
- Track record: 22 client organisations currently rely on our daily meal supply, and our Google rating stands at 4.6 stars.
We are certified to ISO 22000 and HACCP, and we can share our document pack - covering certificates, trade licence and a capability statement - so your procurement process has what it needs to check us properly rather than take our word for it.
If you are comparing options for a monthly or ongoing office meal plan, we would rather you taste the food and speak to how we operate than rely on a page of claims. Reach out, arrange a tasting, and take the rotation and hygiene documentation back to your team before deciding anything.
