Corporate Holiday Events

[Eclipse]

I am responsible for my (new--I've only been here 3 months) company's End of the Year/Holiday Luncheon, which will be held this Friday. The owner/CEO is Jewish, and is adament about nothing remotely Christian or even secular Christmas be associated with this event.

Right now it is just a lunch at a decent local Italian resturant not to far from the job. They serve the food family style, so that should be interesting. Anyway, I'm looking for something to make things a little fun. The company culture has been all work and no play, and they are now trying to change that (because turnover has been kinda bad, but that's another story), hence the luncheon (1st one in years) We are already planning on mixing everyone up (so departments don't "clump"), but does anyone have any other ideas of something we can do to make it more than just lunch?

Secret Santa or anything like that was nixed. I thought of doing a trivia contest with prizes, but did not want to make it Christmas related for the above reasons, so that was nixed. We have considered doing a company trivia game, and them maybe random pulling of names for gifts, but not sure about that.

Any ideas?