HTG Fall 2025 Managers Guide

Make Every Holiday Easy for Your Guests and Boost Incremental Sales

The popular Holidays to Go program offers seasonal take-home meals and desserts for family celebrations. For each holiday, you can offer the full range of mix-and-match meals and desserts, the pizza bundle or any individual items that suit your guests’ tastes and your unit’s capabilities.

USING THIS GUIDE: You’ll find helpful information about this year-long program on pages 2 to 7. Starting on page 8, discover menus and highlights of specific holidays throughout the year

Mix-and-Match Holiday Meals and Desserts

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Pizza Meal to Go

Whenever guests gather, pizza is always popular. Pizza bundles (hot pizza, salad, dessert and soda offer guests a quick, takehome meal every day!

Ready-to-Serve Desserts

For some holidays, you can generate revenue for your café by offering a delicious lineup of Sara Lee’s restaurant-quality pies for guests to take home and enjoy.

Check out the Fall 2025 menu and highlights on pages 8 and 9.

Your unit can receive complimentary cases of cookie tins or cookie jars (depending on the holiday) with your cookie orders, while supplies last.

Turnkey Resources

Easy-to-follow instructions, order forms and promotional assets help you market and launch Holidays to Go in your café.

Easy Steps to Success

Holidays to Go is easy to implement at your location. We provide all the tools you’ll need to run a successful promotion. Simply click on the arrow below to access operational and marketing resources.

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GETTING STARTED

• Review the operational assets by clicking on the Download Resources Here arrow below.

• For each holiday, share the Menu List with your chef to find the NBO and FMS recipe numbers for all Holidays to Go items.

• Review the Ingredient List.

• Select the most appealing menu items for your guests for each holiday.

• Meet with your client and explain the program.

LOCATION SETUP

• Set your pricing using the Holidays to Go Pricing Guide

• Package orders during select date and time windows, providing At-Home Reheating Instructions with each order. 02 03 04

• Add Holidays to Go to POS system, if not using Infor. Or use the Everyday and Info Item Request Portal to request access to Holidays to Go items.

• Determine run dates for each holiday’s menu at your location.

• Determine staffing needs and decide how quickly you can fulfill orders.

• Identify adequate safe storage, following policies outlined in 1.2.6 Packaged Goods for Retail Sale.

• Designate a team member to oversee the guest ordering process and designate one area where guests can pick up their orders.

MARKETING AND SALES

• Download Digital Marketing Assets, such as digital screens and social media images.

• Download Printable Marketing Assets, such as a customizable marketing brochure, counter cards, napkin inserts and Word templates.

• Locate printed marketing assets, such as banners and posters; these may be included in the Mutualized Promotions Kit shipped to you.

• Display all marketing assets in your café.

• Host preview and sampling days in your café to announce and market Holidays to Go to your guests.

• Guests use the Holidays to Go Order Form to place orders.

• Collect customer payment by any means currently available at your site.

PREPARING ORDERS

• Order ingredients and vendor partner products, based on guest orders.

• Using the Visual Guide to Packaging and Labeling and the Packaging Guide, order packaging and labels.

• Schedule culinary team for order prep.

• Prepare and assemble meals for takeaway orders.

Operational Resources

Utilize these resources to run Holidays to Go at your location.

Ingredient List

Consolidated list of ingredients by distribution centers with manufacturer information.

Order Form

Use this editable form to highlight the specific menu you’re offering at your location.

Visual Guide to Packaging and Labeling

Illustrated guide showing how to package and label menu items. For labeling, please use the templates found on Printables+.

Packaging Guide

The packaging guide lists manufacturer names, product numbers, pack sizes and links.

Pricing Guide

Set, review and adjust pricing for each holiday campaign with this price optimization guide.

At-Home Reheating Instructions

Attach reheating instruction sheets to each order.

Food Safety Guidelines

Food safety is of utmost importance and HACCP food safety guidelines and procedures must be followed for Holidays to Go products offered for sale to guests for take-home through all stages of preparation, cooking, cooling, holding, packaging, display and storing.

Take-home products must be labeled with this information:

• Product name, ingredients and potential allergens

• Storage instructions

• Reheating instructions (as applicable)

Check local and state Health Department regulations for additional labeling requirements.

Refer to Sodexo’s 1.2.6. Packaged Foods for Retail Sale Guidelines for additional information.

Guest’s name and contact information

Pickup day and time noted REQUIRED GUEST INFORMATION WHEN ORDER IS PLACED

SAMPLE ORDER FORM

Choices selected in each menu category

HOW TO CUSTOMIZE FORM FOR YOUR LOCATION

Edit ordering requirements and availability dates

Helpful Resources

PRICING

Explore the Holidays to Go Pricing Guide on Retail Ranger. Guests will appreciate the talents and time of your café staff in preparing takeaway desserts, allowing you to place a higher value and price on Holidays to Go menu items than on regular café selections. The pricing guide will help you determine the most appropriate pricing for the Holidays to Go program at your location.

DIGITAL ORDERING PLATFORM

To advertise the menu on your CaterTrax site, download the Holidays to Go Order Form from the Download Resources Here arrow below and customize it with the menu items you’re offering, adding run time, payment and pickup instructions. Submit a support ticket to CaterTrax, add the appropriate holiday from the list below and attach your order form to the ticket:

“Advertise Valentine’s Day to Go”

“Advertise Spring Holidays to Go”

“Advertise Mother’s Day to Go”

“Advertise Commencement to Go”

“Advertise Fall Holidays to Go”

Request that the menu be advertised on your home page. CaterTrax has an advertising graphic for each holiday menu and will link your order form to the graphic.

OFFER IMPULSE DESSERTS EVERY DAY

Prepare a variety of desserts each day and place at checkout registers to encourage impulse purchases as guests pass through your café.

Marketing Resources

Find digital and printable marketing assets by clicking on the Download Resources Here arrow below. Printed banners and posters are often included in Mutualized Promotions Kits. This comprehensive set of marketing materials will help you advertise and build interest in each holiday’s campaign.

Counter Cards

Print these designed ads to insert in countertop signage holders.

Digital Assets

You’ll find dozens of designed assets to download for digital displays, social media and more.

Editable Brochure

Advertise your program with a customizable marketing pamphlet you can print.

Napkin Inserts

You can print these designed napkin inserts in horizontal and vertical formats for your location.

Word Templates

These editable blank forms with Holidays to Go logos allow you to craft messaging for your guests.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT HOLIDAYS TO GO, CONTACT:

Erica Milios Vice President, Guest and Operator Experience

Erica.Milios@Sodexo.com

Fall Holidays Menu Range

The menu items featured in Holidays to Go are traditional dishes beloved by families at their celebrations. These recipes were carefully reviewed and selected based on their ease of production and packaging for your team members.

Mix-and-Match Meals

(Serves 4–6)

PROTEINS

Choose 1

• Carved Smoked Pit Ham with Pineapple Chutney

• Herb and Pepper Crusted Roast Beef with Mushroom Demi-Glace

• Roast Turkey with Gravy

HEATABLE SIDES

Choose 3

• Creamed Spinach

• Glazed Carrots

• Green Bean Casserole

• Macaroni and Cheese

• Maple-Glazed Brussels Sprouts

• Mashed Potatoes

• Old-Fashioned Sage Stuffing

• Orange-Roasted Butternut Squash

• Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes

• Whipped Sweet Potatoes

DESSERTS

Choose 1

• Apple Pie

• Chocolate Cream Pie

• Dutch Apple Pie

• Pumpkin Pie

• Southern Pecan Pie

BREAD

(includes 1 dozen with each order and Smart Balance Buttery Spread)

Choose 1

• Cracked Pepper and Parmesan Drop Biscuits

• Parker House White Dinner Rolls

Pizza Meals to Go

(Serves 3-4)

16" PIZZA

(prebaked and hot when guest arrives for pickup)

Choose 1

• Cheese

• Margherita

• Pepperoni

SALAD

Choose 1

• Classic Caesar

• Sausage

• Supreme

• Vegetable

• Traditional Garden

SODA

Includes 2-Liter Soda

DESSERT

Choose 1

• Chocolate Brownies

• Rice Krispies Bars

COOKIES: 8 Flavors

Butter Sugar

Carnival

Chocolate Chip

Double Chocolate Chip

Lemon Burst

Oatmeal Raisin

Peanut Butter

Turtle

White Chocolate Macadamia

Desserts

(Sold A La Carte)

PIES: 8 Flavors

Apple

Cherry Krunch

Chocolate Cream

Dutch Apple

Fruits of the Forest

Pumpkin

Southern Pecan

DESSERTS: 4 Flavors

Caramel Brownie Bite

Cheesecake

Flourless Chocolate Torte (Gluten Free)

Molten Chocolate Cake

Pumpkin Swirl Pullman Cake

The menu items featured for Fall Holidays to Go are traditional dishes beloved by families at their year-end celebrations. These recipes were carefully reviewed and selected based on their ease of production and packaging for your team members. You’ll find helpful operational resources and marketing assets by clicking on the Download Resources Here arrow below to make Holidays to Go a success at your location.

Pizza Meal to Go

Whenever guests gather, pizza is always popular. Pizza bundles (hot pizza, salad, dessert and soda offer guests a quick, takehome meal every day!

Fall Highlights Marketing Assets

Exclusive Offer from Otis

Generate revenue for your café by offering a delicious lineup of Sara Lee’s restaurant-quality pies for guests to take home and enjoy.

Your unit can receive complimentary cases of cookie tins or cookie jars (depending on the holiday) with your cookie orders, while supplies last.