Office lunch is a hot topic. It has the potential to be a delicious part of the workday, but it also has the potential to be a real headache for whoever is in charge of organizing it. People are particular about what they eat!
Forkable is helping Inkling save $76,000 annually by cutting down on food waste — and they’re not alone! Lots of companies are significantly decreasing their food costs by switching from family-style catering to individual meals.
Inclusivity isn’t just a HR buzzword. Study after study shows that diversity in the workplace promotes creativity and effective problem solving. Diverse talent is out there, especially in major cities like San Francisco and New York, but in order to attract and retain a diverse team, you have to have inclusive appeal. You have to create a workplace where people from all sorts of different backgrounds can feel comfortable, respected, and happy. Here’s how.
It isn’t just the product-market fit a startup achieves that decides whether or not a company becomes a success. It’s the team. To be the best, you have to have the best working for you. The innovators. The builders. The employees who are passionate, dedicated, skilled, and collaborative. How do you get those employees, and retain them? Office lunch catering in San Francisco might just be your secret sauce for success.
Acknowledgment bolsters effort. If you want a workplace with high morale, full of happy employees, you need to show your team that you appreciate their hard work. When employees feel acknowledged and valued, they are more connected to the company, their team, and the work that they do.
Office lunches are great for companies. They’re terrible for office managers.
Eating together brings teams closer together, creates opportunity for relationship building, encourages interdepartmental collaboration, promotes healthy habits that lead to healthy teams, and is the most efficient form of team bonding.
Lunch is a necessary part of the workday, and can be an efficient way to sneak team building in. A Harvard study of firefighters found that eating lunch together was not only great for team building, but also improved work performance significantly. Firefighters’ collaborative behaviors as much as doubled when their team ate lunch together versus when they ate separately.
