New Hire Onboarding Lunch: Formats, Timing, and How to Make It Repeatable

A complete guide to the new hire onboarding lunch: why it behaves like a standing order rather than an event, how to collect dietary needs from someone who does not have a company login yet, the formats that clear a three-person headcount, why day one is the wrong day, how to handle a remote start, and how to attach the whole thing to your offer-accepted step so the fourth hire gets what the first one did.