Spice blending team building could be hot favourite with businesses

A former automotive manager turned award-winning entrepreneur is combining his old and new skills to launch unique workshops themed around spice.

Rajesh Darji established his food experience company Scratch Cook Social, in Leamington, in January after walking away from his Vice President role at Bosch, after 22 years.

Now he is drawing on his experience in leading global teams, to deliver his own immersive corporate learning - through the fun medium of food.

Building on the early success of his business, which offers private dining and catering, the self-taught chef has now added the Spice Blending Team Building Experience to his menu of services. It is carefully designed to help businesses foster better collaboration in the workplace, particularly, he says, following ‘unexpected changes in the business environment’ such at those brought on by the pandemic.

In the three-hour workshop, Raj leads the group on a journey of spice exploration while sharing his own real-world experience of delivering high-tech solutions to the automotive industry and managing change. 

Born into a first generation of immigrants from India, Raj joined Bosch after graduating in Automotive Engineering at Coventry University. It is his many years of business travel - including five years living in The States and four years in Germany – that have informed his cooking style today, including French, Italian, Thai, Chinese and Japanese influences and, of course, Indian.