Is your staff catering currently limited to a visit to the restaurant around the corner? While this is certainly delicious, it can become expensive, monotonous, and time-consuming in the long run.
Today, we would like to introduce you to the Foodji fresh food vending machine as an alternative and outline the most important advantages and facts about Foodji for you:
| restaurant around the corner | ||
| Freshness & quality of food | +300 hot & cold main courses, snacks & drinks | Depending on the restaurant |
| Advance reservation of meals | Up to 6 hours in advance via app | When ordering |
| Opening hours & availability | Available around the clock | Depending on the restaurant's opening hours |
| preparation time | 2-3 minutes | Longer waiting times possible during peak hours |
| procurement costs | None - Foodji offers a comprehensive service | Employees must actively make their way to the restaurant and expect long waiting times. |
| employee benefit | Team spirit is strengthened during a break together | High organisational and financial costs, no sense of community |
| Sustainable quantity planning | Made possible by planning with AI: avoiding food waste | Depending on the restaurant: often not a priority |
| subsidisation | Made possible by digital technology | Can be made possible, administrative effort |
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Employee catering is a key factor in meeting all these needs of the team. The availability of fresh food in the company signals appreciation for employees and contributes to employee retention. High employee satisfaction leads to lower staff turnover and a better working atmosphere.
Providing staff catering by sending employees to a restaurant does not directly add value for employees, as they have to take care of their own meals and expect waiting times. In addition, there is often limited variety in the dishes on offer and the break is associated with considerable time constraints.
That is why we would like to introduce Foodji as a cost-effective and space-saving alternative that every company can afford without compromising on quality and which is open 24/7 without the need for staff. Internal catering contributes to increased employee satisfaction, as it offers employees a pleasant and social environment in which they can exchange ideas and relax. This promotes interaction, which improves the sense of community and the working atmosphere and strengthens employee loyalty.
While traditional delivery services have long been considered the standard solution for satisfying hunger in the workplace, the increasing dynamism of modern working life and changing employee expectations raise the question: is this type of employee catering still appropriate?
Compared to innovative and sustainable catering approaches such as Foodji, a delivery service that requires food to be ordered from outside no longer seems to meet the demands of the modern working world. Comprehensive catering is particularly difficult to provide for shift workers.
Shift supervisors therefore like to order for the whole team from the nearest delivery service. However, these services also have regular working hours and close at certain times. Offices also face this challenge when they want to get fresh food outside of lunchtime.
Foodji's employee catering service promotes a balanced diet with fresh and healthy options, thereby boosting the team's concentration, productivity and long-term health. To this end, it is also a popular health management tool.
Delivery services such as Mealmates offer a varied solution by delivering delicious, pre-ordered meals to companies by car. Although this ensures internal catering, the delivery route, working hours and repetitive meals often prove to be a hurdle. Foodji is filled with fresh food 2-3 times a week directly on site.
We attach great importance to the freshness and quality of our ingredients and products and want all employees to have access to healthy food at work.
Thanks to the non-cash benefit value, employees receive subsidies from their employer for their meals. If an employee goes to a restaurant and has lunch there, the subsidy involves a relatively large amount of administrative work.
With Foodji, employees can redeem their meal allowance directly in the Foodji app. This also makes billing easy for the company and enables it to be done digitally. As the meal allowance is a valuable and everyday employee benefit, the process should always be straightforward and convenient for both companies and employees.
In addition to freshness, variety is also important to us: we stock Foodji with a wide range of main courses from a variety of cuisines, including Italian, Greek, German, Asian and many more. We also place great importance on ensuring that vegetarians and vegans can find something to suit their tastes. A healthy and delicious lunch is a real employee benefit. Have you tried our nine dean&david salads yet? They are amazing and will give you and your team a boost at lunchtime. For those who are feeling peckish, we offer a wide selection of snacks such as wraps and sandwiches. Here you will find a small selection of our diverse range.
Not every employee has the opportunity to take part in a traditional lunch from Monday to Friday. People who work shifts or weekends in particular do not have access to this. A canteen that is only open at lunchtime from Monday to Friday therefore does not reach them. An online option where food has to be ordered is also not suitable here. With a catering facility that is open around the clock or at least has extended opening hours, everyone can be catered for. The purpose: this communicates appreciation and promotes health and satisfaction. Especially during night shifts, it is important for the body to eat healthily and prevent cravings. This can be promoted by the employer through a balanced menu and varied cuisine.
Yes. As with a traditional canteen, employers can subsidise daily meals (main courses, breakfast until 11 a.m., snacks, drinks) at Foodji tax-free. Foodji's intelligent system ensures that all tax regulations, such as the value of non-cash benefits, are complied with without any effort. In addition, it is possible that external persons (e.g. visitors or employees of other companies) may have access to Foodji at your location. In this case, it is ensured that only employees have access to the subsidy. The subsidy can be adapted for a wide range of applications. The meal subsidy is a highly valued benefit that entices employees out of their homes and back to the office.
