How corporate catering with Dana Prime works
Setting up daily or weekly lunches for a team, or catering a one-off corporate event, follows the same three-step process whether your office is in Abu Dhabi, Dubai or Sharjah.
- Brief: Send your headcount, office or venue address, preferred delivery window and any dietary notes over WhatsApp or the form on this page. We ask about lift access, drop-off points and whether you need serving staff on site so the first quote is accurate.
- Tasting: Before anything is booked, we arrange a free tasting so your office manager or HR lead can check portion sizes, flavour and presentation. This is also when we confirm the menu rotation for daily lunches or the running order for a corporate event, and we quote after the tasting.
- Delivery: Once confirmed, our own delivery, setup and serving team takes over. For ongoing service we build a rolling calendar so your team always knows what's coming; for events we agree arrival time, setup and collection in writing.
We work with HR and admin leads who are ordering for the first time as well as those replacing an existing ongoing service. There is no long-term commitment required to start — many clients begin with a single week or a single event and move to monthly supply once they're satisfied with consistency and communication.
Because our kitchens are based at Abu Dhabi Industrial City (ICAD II), we plan delivery routes to Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah each morning, so timing is built around your office's actual location rather than a generic slot. If your requirements change week to week — more colleagues one day, a client lunch the next — you simply update us and the order adjusts; there is no rigid structure to renegotiate.
Dietary needs and allergen handling
Office teams are rarely uniform in their dietary needs, and corporate events often have guests with specific requirements. We capture this information at the brief stage, not as an afterthought, so kitchen planning accounts for it from day one.
Vegetarian and vegan colleagues are catered for as standard rather than as a single token dish — options such as chana masala, paneer makhani, vegetable lasagne, stuffed bell peppers, grilled halloumi skewers and mushroom risotto rotate through our menus so there's genuine variety, not just one repeated substitute meal.
For allergen handling, we ask you to collect a simple headcount breakdown from your team — for example, how many require gluten-free, nut-free, dairy-free or halal-specific handling — and we confirm which dishes suit each requirement before the order is finalised. Our kitchens work under ISO 22000 and HACCP certification, which governs how allergen risks are controlled during preparation, storage and transport.
- Vegetarian and vegan dishes rotated through the standard menu, not offered as a single fixed option
- Dietary and allergen data collected per headcount at the briefing stage, before the tasting
- Labelling and separation practices aligned with ISO 22000 and HACCP requirements
- Adjustments confirmed in writing ahead of each delivery or event date
If your office headcount changes — new starters, visiting colleagues from another site, or a client group attending an event — simply update us with the revised dietary breakdown ahead of the next delivery or event date and we'll adjust the plan. For recurring lunches, we recommend a quick monthly check-in so any new dietary requirements are captured before they become a last-minute request on the morning of delivery.
Delivery, setup and collection across Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah
Corporate catering only works if delivery timing is dependable, which is why Dana Prime uses its own delivery, setup and serving team rather than third-party couriers. This means the same team accountable for the food is also accountable for getting it to your office on time.
For daily and weekly office lunches, we agree a fixed delivery window that fits your team's lunch schedule and confirm building access details in advance — loading bay, service lift, reception sign-in — so there's no delay at the door. Food arrives set up and ready to serve, whether that's buffet trays, individually plated boxes, or a mix depending on your office's usual format.
For corporate events, our team arrives ahead of the stated start time to set up live stations, canapé displays or a full buffet line, and stays on site through service if serving staff have been requested. At the end of the event, we handle collection of equipment and platters so your office doesn't need to manage clean-up.
- Fixed delivery windows agreed in advance for recurring office lunches
- On-site setup and serving staff available for corporate events
- Coverage across Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and the wider UAE from our ICAD II kitchens
- Collection of equipment and serving platters after events
Because our kitchens are based at Abu Dhabi Industrial City (ICAD II), we run daily delivery routes into all three emirates rather than treating any one city as an add-on. If your office is in a business bay tower, a free zone or a lower-rise business park, let us know the access details at the brief stage so the delivery team can plan the route and arrival sequence correctly on the first attempt.
Why office managers choose Dana Prime
Dana Prime has been cooking for organisations across the UAE since 1998. That length of service means our kitchen team has handled the practical realities of corporate catering — changing headcounts, tight lunch windows, dietary variety over months of repeat orders — long enough to plan for them rather than react to them.
We currently cook more than 7,000 meals every day from our kitchens at Abu Dhabi Industrial City (ICAD II), which gives us the capacity to take on a new office lunch account or a one-off corporate event without disrupting existing ongoing service to our 22 client organisations. Capacity is not something we build up after signing you on — it already exists.
Delivery, setup and serving are handled by our own team rather than subcontracted out, so there is a single point of accountability from kitchen to table. Our kitchens hold ISO 22000 and HACCP certification, and we maintain a 4.6-star Google rating, which reflects consistency across daily orders rather than a single event.
- Established 1998 — over two decades of corporate and office catering experience
- 7,000+ meals cooked daily from ICAD II kitchens
- Own delivery, setup and serving team — no subcontracted logistics
- ISO 22000 and HACCP certified
- 22 client organisations currently supplied across the UAE
- 4.6-star Google rating
Before you commit to daily, weekly or monthly supply, we offer a free tasting so your office manager or HR lead can assess the food directly rather than relying on a menu description alone. We quote after the tasting, once portion sizes, dish selection and delivery logistics for your specific office have been confirmed. This approach means fewer surprises once a recurring order or event is underway.
