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If you are tired of the same old lunch routine at the office, I have the perfect solution for you! These are the ideal office lunch meals for a group setting – they offer variety, customization, and cater to different dietary preferences. So, lets have a look at the meals you’ll love to bring for your office mates.
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Bars & Stations
DIY Sandwich Bar
A self-made sandwich bar is the perfect way to start a lunch break and entertain the crowd. With a lot of topping and filling options, the sandwich bars are perfect for feeding the crowd. You’ll need bread, condiments, and a veriety of toppings to set up your buffet. Perfect for serving with dill potato salad and fruit tray.
Taco Bar
Looking for a fun, entertaining, and the best lunch idea for a large crowd? This Taco bar is especially for you. A warm stack of tortillas around a pile of toppings is the perfect way to enjoy lunch with gathering. With a lot of cheesy and delicious toppings, everyone can customize taco as per his liking. The best thing about tacos is that they never go out of season making them ideal for a birthday party or an event with your office fellows.
Salad Bar with Dressings
A fully customizable salad bar is a perfect happy recipe for diet-conscious people like me. The salad bar contains spinach, lettuce, and arugula, which makes the salad stand out from other dishes. Make the tangy dressings to top the salad bowl and satisfy your guest’s cravings. Usually, I add nuts and cheese to the top of the salad to give it a delightful look.
Burger Bar with Different Toppings
Need a fun idea to decorate your burgers? Here I have the best idea to decorate burgers with the burger patties and buffets. Burgers are my family favorite potluck lunch —easy, and crowd-pleasing — with toppings options like cheese, sauces, veggies, and even guacamole. Make burgers as you do, and add your favorite toppings for a scrummy taste and look.
Pasta Bar with Multiple Sauces
Making a pasta bar is a fancy way of making guests happy. Mix the pasta, sauces, and a few toppings, and your pasta bar is ready to serve. This is an easy to make lunch that gets ready in just a few minutes and serve on the table the next minute.
Baked Potato Bar with Assorted Toppings
Air-Fryer Baked potatoes with different topping options is the most creative way to serve your office colleagues. Its classic toppings with scrummy flavors and delightful look make everyone love them at first bite. I recommend assorted toppings, like processed cheese, vegan mayonnaise, cauliflower, cabbage sticks, chicken alfredo, ranch, or pot roast.
Bagel and Lox Spread
An easy-to-pull-together recipe that is simple to make within a few minutes. Bright, colorful, and a healthy treat for the kids as well as adults who want something delicious for lunch. Grab fresh lox, bagels, pickled condiments, and cream cheeses to assemble and create something pleasing that can make your table stand out.
Nacho Bar with Queso and Salsa
A nacho bar with queso and salsa is the perfect appetizer for your family and friends. One of my favorite group lunch ideas for work is loaded nachos. There is nothing compared to their crispiness and cheesy flavors. If you haven’t tried the recipe, it is a perfect time to amaze your colleagues and friends with its scrummy flavors.
Bruschetta and Italian Antipasto Spread
Bruschetta and Italian antipasto are best if you want a tastier and more colorful recipe to make your guests love your culinary skills. In this version, the Italian bruschetta is topped with basil, garlic, chopped tomatoes, and olive oil. A perfect appetizer for school-going kids in lunch. Serve with smoked cheese to make your friends enjoy a perfect meal.
Hot Dog and Sausage Bar
I’ve made hot dogs and sausage bar multiple times for my family when the weather is good. This is another appetizer with a lot of customization options in terms of toppings. Combination of the hot dog with sausage bars never gets old and perfect for any occasion.
Falafel and Hummus Bar
The falafel and hummus bar recipe is an excellent fusion of middle eastern cuisine. Top the hummus with plenty of tomatoes, cucumbers, and whatever you prefer. I like onions and tomatoes, so I use them for garnishing. Using the ground chickpeas, cumin, or coriander spices, make the falafel and hummus bar hit at the event. Colorful, scrummy, and piquant with each bite.
Build-Your-Own Salad Rolls
These DIY salad rolls are easy to make, delicious, and healthy snack. I love making salad rolls for our lunchboxes. With easy-to-adapt ingredients, including veggies, thin rice noodles, butter, and jalapenos, these rolls taste incredible in every bite. This recipe has endless options; you can customize your favorite filling to make it adaptable. Fill the veggie filling into the rice papers; the rest is the history.
DIY Rice Bowl Bar
The delicious and colorful rice bowl bar makes a healthy and satisfying meal for any gathering at lunch. Loaded with proteins rich sunny-side-up eggs, grilled teriyaki chicken, edamame, and peanuts, this can be the best bar you’ve ever experienced. Add your favorite diced veggies to the rice bowl and enjoy the variety of flavors in a single bowl. It is a delicious treat, allowing people to serve themselves, and you can watch the game!
Burrito Bowl Bar
A burrito bowl bar is super easy, most delicious and healthy lunch for large gatherings at offic. Usually, a burrito bowl contains salsa, chicken, rice, guacamole, and beans. But you can make your own burrito bowl bar with food combinations and try as many items as possible to suit your taste.
Pizza
Pizza is everyone’s favorite, right? A perfect treat for picnics, group parties, and catering lunches for office. Whenever I hold a lunch party at my office, I love baking pizza for my colleagues. The best thing about a pizza party? They are quick to make; you can even add your favorite veggies. Delicious, cheesy, and spicy.
Greek Gyro Station
If you haven’t tasted these Greek gyro stations, you’ve missed the best version of gyros. Who would resist enjoying the Greek-flavored gyros wrapped with pita bread? Once I made these gyros for my colleagues, and now they request me to make them every Monday. If you don’t have a vertical rotisserie, you can use warm bread with cucumber, tomato salsa, and feta cheese.
Shrimp Boil
Shrimp Boil is a tender, hearty, and perfect appetizer for lunch and dinner meals. One of the best combinations of flavorful sausages, tender shrimp, sweet corn, and hearty potatoes. I prefer making it with balanced spices that everyone love. Blend of flavors and heavenly soft-boiled shrimp texture make my friends go wild over them.
Chinese Dim Sum Selection
Chinese dim sum sellection are bite-sized dishes including pork buns, hot dumplings, steamed rice noodle rolls, and spring rolls. These selections are usually served with tea or coffee and taste heavenly with plenty of flavors. Try it once at least; you will admit that nothing tastes scummier than these dishes with tea.
Vegetarian Wrap Station
If you love eating healthy foods with a lot of vegetables, try vegetarian wraps for the next office potluck. Ingredients, like peppers, onions, beans, tofu, zucchini, and whatever you want to add, can highlight each flavor of the recipe and make it the hit recipe of party. Since my friends love nutty recipes, I add toppings of nuts to make wraps favorable.
Sushi Burrito Station
If you are looking for the rice recipe; these sushi burritos are perfect for serving the crowd. Making these sushi burrito rolls for friends makes me feels good. Tuna and salmon filling with vegetables like cucumbers, carrots, and avocado tastes incredible. Dip in wasabi sauce, and you’ll thank me later! One of the best grab-and-go lunch ideas to please the crowd and enjoy rice flavors with healthy vegetables.
Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup
Scrummy grilled cheese served with tomato sauce is the perfect combo. This is so comforting and satisfying that it has been my childhood favorite recipe. To continue the tradition of my mother, I make this recipe for my kids on weekends.
Chili Cook-off
If you want something unique, the Chili cook-off is the best event winner recipe for you. And if you like making different chili sauces, then participating in the chili cook-off event would be a wonderful idea. The recipe features beef, chicken, tomatoes, turkey, peppers, beans, and onions. Fun, entertaining, and perfect idea for improving your culinary skills.
Pho Soup Station
Pho Soup Station is a tangy, savory, and flavorful soup which combines variety of ingredients, and my favorite broth spices like star anise, cinnamon, and cloves. You can also use beef bones to make the soup, and enjoy it with any potluck side dish you like. I love making it with my favorite spices and pack for my husband’s office lunch.
DIY Poke Bowl Station
Poke Bowl station is one of my favorites. This healthy, flavorful, and full of proteins bowl station features key ingredients like vegan mayo, sriracha hot sauce, lettuce, cucumber, avocado, tuna, and mangoes. Tastes heavenly when served with brown rice. Super delicious, healthy, and a perfect lunch box idea you can make for your office colleagues.
Charcuterie Board
Nothing is more innovative than a charcuterie board as an office lunch for a group. It is a delight with seasonal fruits, veggies, meat and more. It is the best way to treat your office group lunch! You can add cheese, toasted nuts, dry fruits, fresh fruits, veggies, meat, briny olives, etc. Easy to make and lots of customizations to try!
Bowls & Platters
Hawaiian Luau with Pulled Pork and Rice
Shredded pork served over a layer of rice is the most piquant recipe ever. The best part? Kalua pork is the centerpiece of the Hawaiian luau. So succulent, tender, and effortless. No wonder my whole love is in love with this Hawaiian luau recipe with rice.
Mediterranean Quinoa Bowl
Mediterranean quinoa bowl is filled with colorful and healthy veggies. Add whatever you like to the tray and enjoy the variety of healthy flavors. You need veggies like roasted chickpeas, quinoa, and hummus. The colorful look of the vegan quinoa salad bowl will hit the party.
Taco Salad Bowl
If you have some leftover ground beef taco dip, you are in a luck to make this taco salad bowl. I love making this homemade taco salad with all healthy and flavorful ingredients, including whole-kernel corn, ground beef, taco seasonings, tortilla chips, and black olives. Not only is it delicious, but also quick and easy to make. Serve it in a buffet style so each person can customize it.
Sushi Platter
Sushi platters are a great way to start a sushi lunch party. It tastes perfect with various sushi rolls, nigiri, and sashimi. The bonus point is you can add your favorite ingredients, like shrimp, crab, or avocado. You can also try our favorite Masago Sushi. A great combination of sweet, savory, and acidic flavors. Tastes heavenly with soy sauce and wasabi.
Mediterranean Mezze Platter
Mediterranean Mezze platter is an easy, fun, and family-friendly lunch idea. Swap them in dips and enjoy howsoever you want. Depending on the season, you can add any fruit and vegetable you like. I love adding grapes, pineapple, and apples. The delicious mezze platter with hummus or baba ganoush dips tastes perfectly.
Greek Avocado Salad
Greek avocado salad is a classic dish in Mediterranean cuisine, known for its delectable and revitalizing blend of ingredients, and a staple in local restaurants and home kitchens. Whip up a batch of this exquisite Greek avocado salad and watch as everyone falls in love with it due to the refreshing taste.
BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches
This Texas-style BBQ pulled pork sandwich is super easy to make. My family’s favorite, and it will definitely be yours. Plus, it is easy to make in a cooker or oven. Creamy, light, and crunchy topping of creamy coleslaw and fried rounded onion rings taste heavenly.
Buffet Dishes
Vegetable Stir-fry Buffet
Fun, savory, and heavenly for the crowd feeding. Add vegetables, meat, and sauces to the recipe and make however desired. With bell peppers, shrimp, broccoli, carrots, and mushrooms, the stir-fry buffet is one of the best Asian foods you can enjoy whenever you crave it. Savory, sweet, and spicy sauces fill the mouth with scrummy flavors.
Curry Buffet
If you want something unique and scrummy, here’s the Indian curry buffet which is a great combination of lamb curry, chicken tikka masala, and saag paneer. Tastes perfect with naan bread, rice, chutney, and pickles. Bonus point? A perfect spicy meal for Asian food lovers who love spicy dishes. Rich flavors feel different every time.
Paella Party
Have you ever gone to the paella party? If yes, you must have seen huge paella pans loaded with chicken, rice, and seafood. A lot of scrummy sangria and plates full of seafood paella is the perfect appetizing scene which can make anyone go wild over this food. I love going to paella parties because they feel something different and fun, which other recipes can never give.
Chicken Wing Buffet with Sauces
These flavorful, satisfying, and spicy honey lemon pepper chicken wings are totally irresistible, and make the person feel like in the sky. The buffalo, honey mustard, BBQ, teriyaki, and garlic parmesan sauces perfectly enhance the flavors of the wings. Grilled, baked, or even air fried wings taste heavenly. A great food, which is perfect for sharing with family and friends.
Breakfast-for-Lunch Buffet
A breakfast for lunch buffet is a great way to refresh you mid day. You can add eggs, French toast, bacon, pancakes, sausages, and waffles to your breakfast or lunch board, and enjoy with coffee or tea. You are also free to add cereals and oatmeal for light food lovers. Customize the buffet with dietary needs, and make it however, you like.
Seafood Paella
The best thing about this recipe is the variety of seafood with associated health benefits. Add clams, shrimp, squid, and mussels to the recipe and enjoy with rice. I also combine vegetables, saffron, bell peppers, and onions to create a satisfying dish.
The crispy bottom texture of the rice gives immense pleasure and tastes heavenly with each bite. Paprika, garlic, and spices add flavors and enhance the delights. Serve it with a glass of wine, and enjoy your summer with family and friends.
38 Unique Office Lunch Ideas for A Group
Ingredients
Bars And Stations
- DIY Sandwich Bar
- Taco Bar
- Salad Bar with Dressings
- Burger Bar with Different Toppings
- Pasta Bar with Multiple Sauces
- Baked Potato Bar with Assorted Toppings
- Bagel and Lox Spread
- Nacho Bar with Queso and Salsa
- Bruschetta and Italian Antipasto Spread
- Hot Dog and Sausage Bar
- Falafel and Hummus Bar
- Build-Your-Own Salad Rolls
- DIY Rice Bowl Bar
- Burrito Bowl Bar
- Pizza
- Greek Gyro Station
- Shrimp Boil
- Chinese Dim Sum Selection
- Vegetarian Wrap Station
- Sushi Burrito Station
- Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup
- Chili Cook-off
- Pho Soup Station
- DIY Poke Bowl Station
- Charcuterie Board
Bowls And Platters
- Hawaiian Luau with Pulled Pork and Rice
- Mediterranean Quinoa Bowl
- Taco Salad Bowl
- Sushi Platter
- Mediterranean Mezze Platter
- Greek Avocado Salad
- BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches
Buffet Dishes
- Vegetable Stir-fry Buffet
- Curry Buffet
- Paella Party
- Chicken Wing Buffet with Sauces
- Breakfast-for-Lunch Buffet
- Seafood Paella
Instructions
- Choose any one of these Office Lunch Ideas for A Group.
- Gather the necessary ingredients and start making the recipe.
- I hope you've made the recipe under 30 minutes
