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Home for Dinner

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.

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.

How much does it cost?

A Community Home for Dinner is $1,100 inclusive of merchant fees and GST.

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.

Book a Home For Dinner experience for a community group

Want to book an experience for a corporate team? See our booking page for organisations.

A message from our in-house chef partners MinRes

Since 2015, MinRes has had the privilege of standing alongside Ronald McDonald House Western Australia with a shared purpose: to provide comfort, care and connection for families facing some of life’s toughest challenges.

We know a warm meal can make a hard day feel a little lighter. Every night, our two chefs do more than prepare meals – they deliver reassurance, hope and a sense of home on each plate.

At MinRes, we believe in investing in the communities where we live and work and making a real difference in people’s lives.

Our partnership with Ronald McDonald House Western Australia is a proud endorsement of this focus and reinforces our company’s broader focus on quality food not just as nourishment, but an important way to bring people together.

– Chris Ellison, Managing Director, MinRes

Enquiries

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