Simon & Schuster had a straightforward brief for their Sydney office, and sometimes that is exactly right. A platter of fruit skewers alongside a box of chocolate macadamia brownies, both serving twenty people, covers the kind of mid-afternoon moment where people need something to pick at without committing to a full meal.
The fruit skewers do a lot of quiet work in that context. They are easy to grab between meetings, nothing to cut or serve, and they keep things light enough that the brownies feel like a treat rather than overkill. The chocolate and macadamia combination is rich without being heavy, and a pack of twenty disappears faster than most people expect.
For a team that size, the portion count was tight but deliberate. No surplus sitting on the table by the end of the afternoon.
