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Home For Dinner

Get your team together to make an impact.

A home cooked meal is often taken for granted and it’s for that reason we set up ‘Home for Dinner’. The program invites you to cook a meal from the heart, for families with ill or injured children who rely on Ronald McDonald House WA.

After a long day of hospital appointments, cooking a meal may be the last thing on a parent’s or carer’s mind. For ten years, we’ve been proud to partner with Mineral Resources (MinRes) who employ 2 chefs, Tommy and Zi, to ensure our families have a nourishing meal at the end of each day. By simply helping Tommy and Zi to prepare a homemade dinner for our families, you can make things a little easier for families at a time when they need it most.

Each year, we will provide 50,000 lovingly home cooked meals for WA families staying across Ronald McDonald House at QEII, Ronald McDonald House on Park and our Parent Accommodation in Perth Children’s Hospital.  So, join us for a very special giving experience to share with your group members and friends.

Book your own cooking experience

How Does it Work?

Your Home for Dinner experience will start at 2:45pm and finish at 8:00pm.

  1.  Select a date and register your booking date using our online booking system.
  2. Payment for your Home for Dinner experience is required at time of booking.
  3. Arrive at Ronald McDonald House at QEII at 2:45pm.
  4. We will take you on a tour of the House where you’ll get an understanding of the programs and services available to families through Ronald McDonald House WA.
  5. You’ll do a kitchen induction with the MinRes in-house chefs and run through the dinner menu your team will be preparing.
  6. Get slicing, dicing, mixing and cooking!
  7. Dinner service begins at 5:30pm. Help serve the meal you’ve cooked to families in the dining room.
  8. Dinner time: we’ll invite you to sit down at approx 6:30pm to enjoy your own meal! It also gives you the chance the chat to the families you’ve cooked for.
  9. Clean up: you’ll help clean up the commercial kitchen.
  10. Your Home for Dinner experience finishes at 8pm.

FAQs

Is there a minimum age requirement?

The minimum age for participation in the Home for Dinner program is 16 years.

We have a maximum capacity of 10 team members in our commercial kitchen.

Any additional team members can get involved by decorating the dining room to a theme or setting up activities for families staying with us to enjoy over dinner.

It’s always a big hit with families if one of their favourite movie characters serve them dinner! If you feel like taking full advantage of the experience, please feel free to choose your own theme to ‘dress up’ in.

Our Other Cooking Programs

Start the morning by making a real impact for WA families staying at Ronald McDonald House. Whether you are baking something comforting from the oven or cooking up a hearty breakfast, your time in the kitchen helps give parents the fuel they need to face a big day of appointments with their child. Choose the session that suits your group and help bring a little warmth to someone’s morning.

Lovin From The Oven

Lovin’ from the Oven gives you the opportunity to ‘plate a difference’ in the lives of WA families with an ill or injured child. The donation of your time and cooking talents can help make things a little easier for families who need it most. Lovin From The Oven sessions start at 8:45 am.
Learn more

The Big Breakfast

The Big Breakfast is a cooking program where community and corporate groups are invited to take over the kitchen of Ronald McDonald House at QEII. All cooking equipment is provided, however groups are required to bring in their own ingredients and recipes.

Big Breakfast experiences start at 7:30 am.

Learn more

A message from our in-house chef partners MinRes

“We hope that by providing a home-cooked meal it offers families comfort, stability and a sense of normality in a time of uncertainty.

At MinRes, we know the importance of a good meal because we’ve seen firsthand how it impacts the wellbeing of our own employees. Just as we prioritise the health and wellbeing of our workforce, we want to extend that care to families going through a difficult time.

By taking one daily task off their plate, we hope to make a hard time a little bit easier.”

– MinRes Executive General Manager People Facilities and Logistics, Bethanie Ibrahim

Ronald McDonald House Western Australia