Does your employee catering currently consist of a visit to the restaurant around the corner? It certainly tastes delicious, but in the long run it becomes expensive, one-sided and time-consuming.
Today we present the Foodji fresh food vending machine as an alternative and summarize the most important advantages and facts about Foodji for you:
| Restaurant around the corner | ||
| Fresh, high-quality food | +300 hot & cold main courses, snacks & drinks | Depending on the respective restaurant |
| Advance reservation of dishes | Up to 6 hours in advance via app | When ordering |
| Opening hours & availability | Available around the clock | Depending on the opening hours of the restaurant |
| Preparation time | 2-3 minutes | Longer waiting times possible at peak times |
| Procurement costs | None - Foodji offers an all-round service | Employees must actively make their way to the restaurant & expect long waiting times |
| Employee benefit | Community spirit is strengthened during a break together | High organizational 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 |
| Subsidy | Enabled digitally | Can be made possible, effort in administration |
| Request advice |
A key factor in meeting all these needs of the team is employee catering. The availability of fresh food in the company signals appreciation towards the employees and contributes to employee loyalty. A high level of employee satisfaction leads to lower staff turnover and a better working atmosphere.
Employee catering by going to a restaurant does not provide any direct added value for employees, as employees have to take care of their own meals and have to expect waiting times. In addition, the variety of dishes is often limited and the break is time-consuming.
This is why we would like to present Foodji as a cost-effective and space-saving alternative that every company can afford while maintaining the same quality and that is open 24/7 without the need for staff. In-house catering helps to increase employee satisfaction as it offers employees a pleasant and social environment in which they can exchange ideas and relax. This encourages interaction, which improves the sense of togetherness and the working atmosphere and strengthens employee loyalty.
While conventional delivery services were long considered the standard solution for satisfying hunger at the workplace, the increasingly dynamic nature of modern working life and the changing expectations of employees raise the question: Is this type of employee catering still up to date?
Compared to innovative and sustainable catering approaches such as Foodji, a delivery service where food has to be ordered from outside no longer seems to meet the demands of the modern working world.
All-round catering can be difficult to provide, especially for shift workers. This is why shift managers 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 lunchtime.
Employee catering by Foodji promotes a balanced diet with a fresh and healthy offer and thus the concentration, productivity and long-term health of the team. To this end, it is also a popular health management tool.
Delivery services such as Mealmates offer a varied solution by using cars to deliver delicious, ordered meals to companies. Although this ensures internal catering, the delivery route, working hours and repetitive dishes often prove to be a hurdle.
The Foodji is filled with fresh food directly on site 2-3 times a week. We attach great importance to the freshness and quality of our ingredients and products and want all employees to have access to healthy food in the workplace.
Thanks to the non-cash benefit, employees receive a subsidy from their employer for their meals. If the employee goes to a restaurant and spends lunch there, the subsidy means a relatively large amount of administrative work.
With Foodji, employees have the option of redeeming 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 important to us: we stock the Foodji with different main dishes from a wide range of cuisines: Italian, Greek, German, Asian and many more. We attach great importance to ensuring that vegetarians and vegans also find the right dish for them. A healthy and delicious lunch is a real employee benefit.
Do you already know our nine dean&david salads? They're amazing and give you and the team a boost at lunch.
We offer a large selection of snacks such as wraps and sandwiches to satisfy small appetites.
You can find a small selection of our varied rangehere .
Not every employee has the opportunity to take part in the traditional Monday to Friday lunch. 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 the food has to be ordered, is also not suitable here. With a canteen 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 the night shift, 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, the employer can subsidize the daily meal (main courses, breakfast until 11 a.m., snacks, drinks) at Foodji tax-free. Thanks to the intelligent system of the Foodji system makes it easy to ensure that all tax conditions, such as the non-cash benefit value, are met. It may also be the case that external persons at your location have access to the Foodji (e.g. visitors or employees of other companies). In this case, it is ensured that only employees have access to the allowance. The subsidy can be customized for a wide variety of use cases.
The food subsidy is a highly valued benefit that attracts employees out of the building and back to the office.
