Five tips for hassle-free lunch delivery for the office

Group lunch is a great way to bring your team together, reward them for their hard work, and to help build a positive workplace culture. However, coordinating the logistics, planning, and ordering of your office’s lunch delivery can become stressful.

Discover our top five tips for hassle-free office food deliveries and find out how to maximise positive impacts.

Employee wellbeing and physical health is directly linked to productivity in the workplace. According to The Institute of Government and Public Policy, healthy employees are less likely to take sick leave and more likely to perform at their best, leading to higher overall output and a better quality of work. 

While it can be difficult to incentivise employees to eat healthier, ordering healthy office treats like fruit can be a great way to promote better eating choices within your staff. If you’re looking to improve your employees’ wellbeing and boost staff productivity, making sure that your office is stocked with healthy food options is a great, low cost way to ensure this.

Meal delivery programmes with Uber for Business let your team enjoy healthy food options through Uber Eats, wherever they work.

If your office has a favourite local restaurant, setting up a repeat office meal delivery is an easy way to save both time and effort while making sure that all your team members have their preferred orders every time. 

This is ideal for daily or weekly in-office meals, recurring meetings, or office routines and rituals such as team-bonding occasions.

Repeating group orders are there to make life easier, so the set-up process should be simple too. If you have a go-to restaurant near your office, follow these steps to create a repeating order:

1. Choose how often you want to order. This could be daily, weekly, or monthly.   

2. Invite your employees to join your order using a link. Meal organisers can also add order links to calendar invites for easy access on days when teams will be working from the office.

3. You and everyone in your group can then choose what to order—every time.

4. If a repeating order is not needed on a particular day, you can easily skip it through the app.

5. The repeat order can be skipped or cancelled at any time.

Meals for meetings and other large events can be especially stressful, as there are so many orders and dietary restrictions to account for. By using a platform like Uber for Business, ordering meals for big groups couldn’t be easier. Group ordering features allow individual employees to simply place their own orders. 

Employees need to be invited to the group order using a custom link, so it’s easy to regulate who has access and who is able to place their food order. This allows employees to browse the menu and select exactly what they would like to eat. It also eliminates any concerns around dietary restrictions.

Catering for office parties and other large events can be expensive. Group lunch ordering avoids the need for office catering, so your company can cut down on costs. Administrative accounts can also set up a spending limit on orders as well, removing the risk of any orders going beyond allotted budgets. 

The additional people and resources required for catering office events, can also lead to unanticipatedly higher amounts of waste. If you’re actively trying to increase your sustainability efforts, then it would be worth considering ordering food for large groups, instead of opting for catering options.  

Ordering snacks and office treats helps keep your employees going throughout the day, as hunger during work can have a negative impact on employee moods and productivity. Having snacks available to employees is a great way to combat hunger or post-lunch crashes. 

Having a variety of snacks available allows you to cater to different dietary preferences and restrictions, ensuring that all employees feel included and valued. 

Regularly updating the snack selection based on employee feedback can also demonstrate consideration and responsiveness to their needs, keeping your employees happy. With Uber Eats, employees can directly add their favourite snacks into your group order basket—making snack selection a breeze.

Though lunch is typically the main meal for most while they’re in the office, you don’t have to restrict the meals that you order just to lunch. An office breakfast delivery helps employees start their day off right with the nourishment they’ll need for a productive day; an office dinner can help bring people together after work to help strengthen your office’s team dynamics. A group dinner or a breakfast for a large group is also a great idea for an office social event.

If you have a project that requires your employees to work late, late-night meals are a great way to reward those employees. You can even create meal programmes that enable your employees to order from home. 

As Uber Eats is available across multiple cities and countries, Uber for Business’s meal programmes are incredibly scalable and flexible, making it ideal for employees on the go.

Coordinating meal deliveries doesn’t need to be stressful. With Uber for Business, meal ordering becomes effortless and adaptable. Whether it’s a healthy breakfast to kickstart your team’s day, a comforting dinner for those working late, or lunchtime meals for meetings, Uber for Business has you covered. We have over 20,000 restaurants available in London and over 60,000 restaurants across the UK which cover a span of 200 cuisines.

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