How business lunch catering with Dana Prime works
Setting up daily or weekly lunch catering for your office starts with a short brief, not a lengthy sign-up process. Most office managers and HR leads across Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah have their first delivery scheduled within days of an initial conversation.
- Brief: tell us your headcount, office location, preferred lunch time, and any dietary patterns among your colleagues. This can be done over a call or via WhatsApp in a few minutes.
- Tasting: before you commit to anything, we arrange a free tasting so you and your team can sample the actual dishes proposed for your rotation. This removes the guesswork that comes with booking catering sight unseen.
- Delivery: once the menu and schedule are agreed, our own delivery, setup and serving team takes over. Meals arrive at your office in line with the agreed window, set up ready to serve, with collection handled afterwards.
Because the tasting happens before any booking, you are never committing to a rotation you have not already approved. This matters most for office managers who are personally accountable to colleagues for lunch quality every single day.
We do not ask you to commit to long, rigid terms upfront. Many organisations start with a short trial period covering a week or two, then move to ongoing service once the rotation and timing are proven to suit their office. Adjustments to headcount, timing or menu are handled through the same WhatsApp line used for the original brief, so changes do not require a new negotiation each time.
For offices that need lunch daily, weekly, or only on specific days, the same three-step process applies. We quote after the tasting, once your exact requirements are clear.
Dietary needs and allergen handling
Office lunch groups are rarely uniform, and our menu planning accounts for this from the brief stage onward. Vegetarian and vegan colleagues, along with those avoiding specific allergens, are captured as part of the same headcount conversation used to set up your rotation, not as an afterthought.
- Vegetarian and vegan options: dishes such as chana masala, paneer makhani, grilled halloumi skewers, vegetable moussaka and mushroom risotto sit within our standard course list, so vegetarian and vegan colleagues can be included in the same delivery without a separate arrangement.
- Allergen awareness: when you share the number of colleagues with specific allergen concerns, we factor this into dish selection during the brief and confirm it again at the tasting, so nothing is left to assumption on the first live delivery day.
- Per-head accuracy: dietary requests are recorded against your total headcount at the brief stage, meaning the correct number of vegetarian, vegan or allergen-aware portions arrives with every delivery, not just the first one.
This matters particularly for offices where the dietary mix changes as new colleagues join or leave. Because your account details are kept on file, updating the vegetarian or allergen count ahead of a delivery is a quick message on WhatsApp rather than a fresh briefing each time.
Our kitchens in Abu Dhabi Industrial City (ICAD II) operate under ISO 22000 and HACCP procedures, which cover allergen segregation and cross-contact control as part of routine practice, not as a one-off exercise for a single event. This gives office managers a documented basis to answer questions from colleagues or building management about how dietary requests are handled. Certificates are available in our document pack on request.
Delivery windows, setup and collection for offices
Timing is usually the first practical question an office manager has, because a late lunch delivery disrupts a whole floor's schedule. Delivery windows are agreed with you at the brief stage based on your office's typical lunch hour, and our own delivery, setup and serving team works to that agreed window rather than a general estimate.
- Setup: our team arrives ahead of your lunch hour to lay out the meal, whether that is a buffet-style spread in a break room or individually portioned trays at desks, depending on what your office space allows.
- Serving: for larger offices or where a served-line format is preferred, our serving staff can remain on site through the lunch period rather than simply dropping off trays and leaving.
- Collection: once lunch service ends, the same team returns to collect equipment and clear the setup area, so your office space is left as it was found.
Because delivery, setup and serving staff are all part of our own team rather than a subcontracted arrangement, the same standard applies whether your office is in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah or elsewhere in the wider UAE. Logistics across the emirates are planned around consistent kitchen dispatch from Abu Dhabi Industrial City (ICAD II), so timing commitments are based on real routing rather than guesswork.
For offices with multiple floors or split lunch sittings, this is captured at the brief stage so setup and serving are timed to match, rather than treating a multi-sitting office the same as a single delivery. Any change to your delivery window, whether a one-off shift for a meeting or a permanent change to your office's lunch hour, is handled through the same WhatsApp line as the original booking.
Why office managers choose Dana Prime
Office managers, HR and admin leads booking business lunch catering are personally accountable for how it lands with colleagues every day, which is why the decision usually comes down to a few concrete facts rather than a general impression.
- Own kitchens and team: Dana Prime has operated from Abu Dhabi Industrial City (ICAD II) since 1998, with our own delivery, setup and serving team rather than relying on third parties for the parts of the service that go wrong most often.
- Capacity: cooking more than 7,000 meals daily means a single office order, however large, is handled within existing kitchen capacity rather than as an exception that strains the schedule.
- Certification: ISO 22000 and HACCP are held and maintained across our kitchen operation, giving office managers a documented answer when building management or senior leadership asks how food safety is managed.
- Track record: 22 client organisations currently rely on Dana Prime for ongoing catering, and our 4.6-star Google rating reflects feedback from people who have already been through the same booking process you are considering.
- Tasting before booking: nothing is booked on trust alone. The free tasting lets you and your colleagues judge the actual food before any ongoing service begins.
References from current client organisations can be shared on request, and our document pack, covering HACCP and ISO 22000 certificates, trade licence and a capability statement, is available before you commit to anything. We quote after the tasting, once your rotation and headcount are confirmed.
