The team at Meat and Livestock Australia started their morning with something straightforward and easy to move around. A dozen danishes alongside a regular seasonal fruit platter, delivered to their North Sydney office in time for the day to get going.

The fruit platter did a lot of the quiet work here. Something like that tends to sit on a table and get picked at across a few hours rather than being consumed all at once, which suits a working morning far better than anything that needs plates and attention. The danishes covered the first wave, warm and ready, while the fruit carried through into mid-morning without any fuss.

It is a practical combination for a team that clearly just needed the food to show up and do its job without getting in the way.