Hands-on workshops designed for teams and communities to learn, create, and connect.
From spice blending and tea making to seasonal culinary experiences, BreakroomYYC brings everything needed for a memorable session directly to your workplace, event venue, or community space.
The idea
BreakroomYYC creates structured hands-on experiences that give people something interesting to do together.
Each workshop combines storytelling, sensory exploration, making, conversation, and a take-home creation.
No awkward icebreakers. No commercial kitchen required. Just a well-designed reason to step away from the usual routine and spend time together.
Signature experiences
Explore how spices travel across cultures, how flavour combinations develop, and why scent becomes so closely tied to memory.
Participants smell and explore a curated collection of spices, discover different blending traditions, and create their own signature spice blend.
They name and package their blend before sharing their creation with the group.
Discover tea traditions, ingredients, and rituals from around the world.
Participants explore teas, herbs, spices, flowers, and aromatics before experimenting with flavour and creating their own custom tea blend.
Each participant names and packages their blend to take home.
A winter workshop built around cacao, drinking chocolate traditions, and flavour.
Participants explore cocoa, spices, sugars, and aromatics before creating their own drinking chocolate blend to take home.
Designed especially for holiday gatherings, team celebrations, and winter programming.
Want more team interaction?
Turn any signature workshop into a longer team-building experience.
Small groups receive a limited pantry and have to decide together which ingredients stay, which go, and what they would create from them.
The activity encourages conversation, negotiation, creativity, and plenty of food opinions.
How it works
Select a signature workshop or seasonal offering.
Tell us your participant count, location, and preferred date.
Ingredients, materials, packaging, equipment, facilitation, and setup are included.
Participants leave with their creation and a shared experience that actually gives them something to talk about.
No commercial kitchen is required for our core experiences.
Corporate
BreakroomYYC workshops are designed for organizations looking for something more engaging than another lunch, presentation, or awkward team-building activity.
Suitable for
Corporate experiences from $2,750
Final pricing depends on participant count, experience, location, and customization.
Request Corporate PricingWe also work with nonprofits, libraries, cultural organizations, educational institutions, and community groups.
A separate community rate is available for eligible organizations to make programming more accessible.
Suitable for
The hosts
Aysha is a designer, educator, and PhD researcher whose work explores food, memory, migration, and culinary heritage.
Her research examines how food stories and participatory experiences can help preserve and communicate cultural knowledge across generations.
At BreakroomYYC, she designs and facilitates the storytelling, cultural, and interactive elements of each experience.
Aman is a former chef and hospitality professional with experience in professional kitchens, food service, and guest experience.
At BreakroomYYC, he brings the culinary knowledge behind ingredients, flavour, technique, and how participants experiment with what they create.
Why BreakroomYYC
People participate instead of sitting and listening.
We bring the experience to your workplace or venue.
Activities naturally create conversation without forced icebreakers.
Every participant leaves with something they made.
Enquire
Tell us what you are planning and we will recommend the right experience.
Calgary, Alberta
Available for select bookings outside Calgary.