Bringing Culinary Excellence to Multiple U.S. Offices

From recurring office lunches to a full-service headquarters café

Over three years, Sifted’s partnership with this client has evolved alongside its growing workplace footprint.

What began as recurring carry-in catering across three cities expanded into a multi-location workplace food program that now includes a full-service café at the company’s new headquarters.

Each office has different facilities, employee headcounts, and dining needs. Sifted supports these differences with local culinary teams, flexible service models, and a consistent approach to food quality and hospitality.

The result is a workplace food partnership that can adapt to each location while giving the client’s workplace team one accountable provider.

The challenge: Different offices, different dining needs

As the company grew, its workplace team needed a food partner capable of supporting offices with very different infrastructure.

Some locations required fresh meals prepared off-site and delivered daily. Others needed a more comprehensive dining experience.

At the new headquarters, the opportunity was to build a café that could serve employees throughout the workday, offer greater menu variety, and make full use of the building’s kitchen facilities.

The challenge wasn’t simply providing food in multiple cities. It was designing the right food experience for each workplace without sacrificing consistency or increasing the complexity of vendor management.

The solution: One food partner, multiple service models

Sifted developed a program that combines recurring corporate catering with on-site café operations.

Carry-in corporate catering

For offices without commercial kitchens, Sifted’s local chefs prepare meals in our commercial kitchens. Our teams then deliver, set up, and manage the workplace lunch service.

On-site headquarters café

At the client’s new headquarters, Sifted developed a café program with multiple culinary stations, freshly prepared meals, and a broader selection of daily offerings.

This flexibility allows the company to maintain one workplace food partner while providing a service model appropriate for each location.

Learn more about Sifted’s Multi-Location Workplace Food Programs.

Designing the headquarters café around employee preferences

When planning the new café, Sifted used participation patterns and food preferences from the client’s existing carry-in programs to inform the culinary approach.

This provided a starting point for understanding what employees enjoyed, which menu formats resonated, and how to balance variety with consistent daily favorites.

The resulting café combines globally inspired dishes, seasonal ingredients, familiar comfort foods, and options for different dietary preferences.

Rather than relying on a single daily menu, the café offers multiple stations that give employees more choice.

Six culinary concepts, one cohesive experience

Sifted developed six distinct culinary concepts for the headquarters café:

• Wrap Culture: Seasonal salads and wraps featuring fresh ingredients and bold flavors.
• Hot Hands: Gourmet burgers and freshly prepared pizza.
• Rotating Plate: Daily dishes inspired by cuisines from around the world.
• Wok N’ Tandoor: Asian and Indian-inspired meals, including an employee favorite.
• Pure: Simple preparations with no added salt and minimal ingredients.
• Sweet Spot: House-made desserts and sweet treats.

Together, these stations provide variety while maintaining a cohesive culinary experience.

Menus can evolve with seasonal ingredients, employee feedback, and changing workplace needs.

Consistent quality across different office environments

The client’s offices don’t need identical menus or identical kitchens to receive consistent service.

Sifted’s local teams develop and prepare food for their markets while following shared standards for culinary quality, food safety, presentation, and service.

At offices without kitchens, that means reliable delivery and thoughtfully presented meals. At headquarters, it means a café experience supported by on-site culinary staff.

The approach gives employees a food program designed for their workplace while simplifying management for the client’s central team.

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Using data to improve the food experience

Employee preferences and participation patterns continue to inform the program after launch.

Sifted uses food program reporting and feedback to understand which offerings resonate with employees and where menus or quantities may need adjustment.

This is especially valuable for a client operating across multiple offices, where attendance patterns and dining preferences can differ significantly by location.

For more on measuring program performance, read Workplace Food Program Metrics: What to Measure and Why.

A workplace food partnership built to evolve

This three-year partnership demonstrates how workplace food programs can grow alongside a company.

A program that begins with recurring office lunches can expand into new markets, incorporate different dining formats, and eventually support a fully staffed headquarters café.

For this client, the advantage is continuity. Sifted understands the company’s workplace culture, employee preferences, and operational expectations, even as the physical spaces and service models change.

For employees, the result is fresh, thoughtfully prepared food that fits the way they work.

For workplace leaders, it’s one partner responsible for making the entire program work.

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