Fun Interactive Food Set Ups

For the ESPN ESPY Awards preparty in Los Angeles in July, DNA Events set up a golf-inspired display of doughnut holes on toothpick tees on an AstroTurf-covered table.

For a fund-raiser in Boston, the Catered Affair set up a doughnut-on-a-stick bar, where guests could top their own treats with colored sugar, candy, and more.

At the Museum of Contemporary Art's most recent ArtEdge Gala in Chicago, Jewell Events Catering set up a Pegboard that held chocolate, cinnamon-sugar, glazed, and old-fashioned cake doughnuts.

Juicy Couture's Gold Coast boutique in Chicago threw an in-store shopping event for customers last year. Truffleberry Market served passed bites, including salted caramel mini doughnuts on hot pink zebra-printed trays.

Abigail Kirsch in New York repurposed a plate display rack by turning it on its side to hold smoked cheddar-glazed mini doughnuts dusted with peanut brittle.

Evoke, the event design and planning company based in Washington, D.C., designed this doughnut wall out of Pegboard, with 1,200 wooden golf tees holding chocolate-glazed, cinnamon-sugar, and powdered doughnuts. A server with a step stool is on hand to pull doughnuts off the wall. Design Cuisine executed the concept.

After a day indoors, take guests outside to remind them that there's life outside the meeting room. At the Garden of the Gods pool complex at Caesars, mixologist Eddie Perales can do quick poolside mixology demos, and serve punch in a bowl made of ice. The meeting break can be arranged for large groups on a case-by-case basis.

Give meeting attendees a tasty memento from the Vegas Strip: Sugar Factory has boxed nostalgic candy gifts that contain bubble gum smokes, chocolate cigars, Nik-L-Nips wax bottles, Fun Dip, Pop Rocks, and other goodies.

For meeting breaks, the 50,000-square-foot Qua Baths & Spa at Caesars Palace has added four organic spa treatments to its menu. These include the 'Tea & Sea' organic body scrub, an anti-cellulite and body-firming wrap, the 'CoffeeBerry' yoga facial, and the 'Qua Mystic Journey,' which makes use of warm coconut argan oil and ginger lime sugar scrub. Gift certificates are also available as attendee gifts.

Opened for the season on March 15, the Light Group's Liquid Pool Lounge at Aria offers a refreshing dose of Vitamin D for meeting attendees. There are two private dipping pools, sprawling chaise lounges, plush daybeds, and private cabanas with 40-inch flat-screen TVs within the 16,000-square-foot space.

For a high-energy meeting break, bring in the Carnival Court flair bartenders from Harrah's Las Vegas. Available for demos or lessons, the flashy bartenders can teach the group flipping, juggling, and pouring tricks.

Summer convention attendees can cool down during meeting breaks with a signature Frrrozen Hot Chocolates from Serendipity 3 at Caesars Palace.

The 4,000-square-foot Shine Alternative Fitness space opened February 29, offering a lineup of classes that are available for group booking. Shine's classes are intended to develop strength, endurance, balance, and flexibility, and include aerial arts, gyrokinesis, kickboxing, yoga, pole fitness, and stretch, as well as a variety of dance courses such as ballet, contemporary, hip-hop, modern, and Zumba.

Take multiday meeting attendees to see Magic and Mayhem on a night off. Illusionist Michael Turco from NBC’s America’s Got Talent has joined forces with Lacey Schwimmer of ABC's Dancing With the Stars to bring the new show to Vegas, which kicked off on February 16. The program combines illusions and audience interaction with choreography, and is playing at the Saxe Theater at Miracle Mile Shops in Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. Group ticketing is available.

Another option for weary conventioneers losing steam after a long week: Wicked kicks off the buzzy new Smith Center for the Performing Arts’ 2012-2013 Broadway subscription series with a limited six-week engagement (August 29 through October 7). Groups of 20 or more are eligible for group ticketing.

Get attendees' energy flowing during a multiday meeting at Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure, which opened its Las Vegas operation at the end of January. Racers can choose between riding shotgun or taking control of the wheel themselves for six, 10, 20, 40, or 60 laps around Las Vegas Motor Speedway. All packages include driver and safety orientation, and drivers are fit for a fire-retardant racing suit, a full-faced Bell helmet, and a safety device. Groups can rent out the track for as many as 100 drivers for an entire day for $50,000; individual rides start from under $200.