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How We Engage Your Employees

We create spaces that go far beyond offering your teams excellent food. Learn what drives our menus - and your workforce.

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Fresh Food, Prepared Thoughtfully

Our chefs go above and beyond to craft mouth-watering, nutritious dishes with what’s in season, while minimizing waste.

  • Fresh, locally sourced ingredients
  • Sustainably sourced meats and fish
  • Healthy cooking practices
  • Plant-based menu options

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Reducing Our Carbon Footprint

Responsible food sourcing is just the beginning. Our commitment to sustainability informs everything we do: recycling and composting, energy conservation, cleaning products, and beyond.

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Convenient Ordering and Goal-Tracking

Connect with employees and hit your targets. Our tools make it easy to:

  • Engage employees with convenient mobile ordering,
    self-serve kiosks, and a loyalty program.
  • Track the effectiveness of your wellness programs.
  • Quickly order high-quality catering to power your
    meetings and events.

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Staying connected

Getting creative to stay connected

Many of us are doing our part during the COVID-19 pandemic by staying home and limiting our social interactions. While many offices and buildings have shut their doors for now, our food service teams have remained committed to creating a positive experience for our clients and their employees. 

Our teams understand the importance of focusing on morale and positivity through uncertainty. Guckenheimer teams across the country are getting creative and staying connected to clients’ employees. Read on to learn how we are staying connected during COVID-19.

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Connecting during covid-19

Hospitality behind a mask

While all employees are required to wear a mask during this time, we are following in healthcare workers' footsteps by promoting our Hospitality Behind a Mask Program. Our employees that are onsite wear buttons so they can still establish and maintain their personal connection with our employees while they wear face masks and other PPE.

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Connecting during covid-19

Revamping our solutions

For our customers that remained open our teams revamped food services solution to ensure that the essential personnel never missed a meal. In addition some sites are offering convenient grocery pickup and pre-made meal kits for employees and their families. Items include high quality meats, fish, dairy, flours, sugars, breads, pasta, bean and hard to find paper goods. 

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Connecting during covid-19

Feeding the frontline

Our teams are not only supporting our customers and their employees during these challenging times but also helping fuel front line workers. Several Guckenheimer teams have worked with local organizations to produce and packaged over 2,000 meals weekly for local first responders and medical personnel. 

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Evidence

Our COVID-19 story

How we have helped our customers during the COVID-19 pandemic

9,000+

pounds of food donated to communities

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Virtual cooking classes hosted

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Fuel employee engagement

Our strategy of using food programs to increase workplace engagement is not only to nourish but also to use food as a way for people to connect with each other and their company culture. Our focus is to increase, engagement, using food as a way to provide multiple, very unique experiences at the workplace.