Staff from Saputo Dairy Australia have swapped their desks and day jobs for an afternoon of cooking.
Nearly 100 Saputo staff from the company's Melbourne headquarters, Leongatha and Laverton sites helped chefs and staff at FairShare, Abbotsford, prepare meals.
It was part of Saputo's third international Big Cook Up, with volunteers working in Australia, Canada, the United States and Argentina.
FairShare chief operating officer Kellie Watson said two shifts of Saputo staff had come to the Melbourne kitchen, to make 500 lasagnas.
"They will be given out to people in need, families, individuals, the elderly, people on the street," Ms Watson said.
"There's a wide variety of people in need, that these will go out to."
She said FairShare ran corporate shifts, every afternoon, from Monday to Friday.
"But this is the biggest corporate shift we have had in our Melbourne kitchens," she said.
Saputo staff had also volunteered to work at the Cobram FairShare kitchens, where another 500 meals were being prepared.
Saputo communications and corporate responsibility vice president Sandy Vassiadis said volunteers around the world prepared meals for families in need.
"With delicious products at the heart of our business, our goal is to make a meaningful impact through employee engagement," Ms Vassiadis said.
"By continuing to empower our people to donate their time and care, we are investing in The Big Cook Up to help families in need."
Saputo launched The Big Cook Up in 2017 to benefit both its employees and the communities where it operates.
Ms Vassiadis said community engagement was one of the seven pillars of the Saputo Promise, the Company's approach to corporate responsibility.
Saputo strove to invest 1 per cent of its pre-tax profits each year in programs and organisations that benefited communities where its employees lived, worked and played.
Saputo broadened its reach this year, adding Cobram, an additional US location and in Argentina.