Contactless Corporate Dining Food Services

Today’s critical need for professionally managed contactless corporate dining makes Café Services your best choice in corporate cafeteria companies. Our contactless food services are designed to support your employees and protect your brand by averting health threats such as Coronavirus.  We’ve expanded the touchless food service programs our clients currently enjoy with an even wider variety of safe and innovative no-contact food service options.

Chef Vanessa preparing stone fruit cobbler in contactless, tamper evident packaging

Below you’ll discover how our enhanced safety protocols and convenient contactless food service options can enhance the guest experience, lift employee morale, and boost productivity.

This place is fantastic. We’ve been dinning at the Wellesley’s store for about one year now and have no complaints. Staff is super professional and amicable. Chef Luke makes me drive all the way from Quincy to Wellesley for a cup of coffee now that the job is over. I’d give 10 stars if I could. Food is terrific

Laercio DeOliveira JR

Always great service and food. The people are always very friendly, good presentation of food, and I will continue to order from here.

Mia Metsger

Great food and great service. Outstanding work done by Chef Chip and his team!

Kevin Oneil

Chip and his team catered for a training class. He made the process seamless, from beginning to end. All the food taste great and the presentation was both appealing and organized!

Fabiola Hyppolite

Chip, Cory and the team at Cafe Services goes above and beyond to create exceptional food and beverage experiences for our on site events. Their menus are wonderful, but the team is also great at creating variety and one of a kind displays. The creativity they provide for decor and themed events is wonderful and makes an impression on event attendees. They set a high bar each time we work together, and exceed expectations event after event!

Leigh-Ann Hanlon

I would whole-heartedly recommend any company or person to use Cafe Services for their catering needs. The team is amazing, creative and willing to go the extra mile to ensure your event is successful. We've hosted 10 events with them at our office within the past few months and the attendees have been blown away by the food, decorations and service.We went to off campus to a restaurant for an evening event and the attendees were wishing we had stayed at the office for the Cafe Services food instead. If I could give 10 stars, I would! Thanks to the Waltham based team for everything!

Jessica Richards

Cafe Services provides the food service for our training classes and internal large meetings. They do an absolutely outstanding job: the food is terrific, the presentations are wonderful & they are absolutely a job to work with. I'm hard to impress after many years in my industry and they are the absolute best!

Deb North

Great chefs. They do a fantastic job with every meal. Highly recommended!

Mike Geraci

Cafe Services does an awesome job with meeting our lunch requirements and orders. The food is always prepared and delivered on time and taste's delicious. Chip and his team over at the Waltham, MA site are incredible!

Karishma Desai

Chip and his staff at the Waltham, MA location always provide excellent service and delicious food! We are so lucky to work with them. They always come through for us with flying colors, even when we make last minute requests. Thank you Chip and Cafe Services!

Katie

Chip and his team are absolutely incredible. We are so lucky to have them in our building!

Caroline Seals

great food and super employees

Charles Farnsworth

The best lunch spot you could ask for in our office building at 1900 Crown Colony in Quincy. The food is more what I would expect from a nice restaurant than a lunchtime cafeteria. And the staff is great as well. Love this spot!

Trust Partners

I love the place

Timothy Quinn

Café Services is a true partner to our department. We host large meetings several times per week and always know that the food will be on time and delicious. They have standard options that please all palates, and are also open and helpful when creating custom menus as requested. The staff is friendly, reliable, and knowledgeable. We feel lucky to have them in our building.

Joanna Bent

The Cafe Services staff at Alkermes in Waltham is an amazing group of people. Always going above and beyond to meet expectations and deadlines; always accommodating last minute requests with a smile. The quality of the food and presentation are also exemplary. Can not say enough great things about Chip Griffin and his team, they have saved me more times than I can count.

Zina Clark

Our cafeteria is awesome. Chip and his team often get last minute requests and go above and beyond to ensure that their customers (the company I work for) are always taken care of and happy. Great customer service 👍

Kim Eustis

They are the best service we've ever had

Diane Rondeau

Professional, friendly staff, clean & lots of variety. Tori & Steve are standouts 🙂

kathie ryan

Five stars! Great atmosphere, love the team. The manager Mandy is a real professional.

Dave Barr

Today I had the Salmon and it was awesome! Tasted fresh and cooked perfectly. I hope others enjoyed it as much as I did. Very healthy too!

Marlene Spilewski

Café Services provides the catering services for my workplace. They have been here for a month and are much better than the last company. Great food and very friendly service. The Chef Manager clearly cares about how we perceive the service and it shows in their performance.

Alaric Harbaugh

Great service. Everyone is so accommodating, professional, helpful and have the right attitude. I do not know everyone's name but Matt and Courtney are above and beyond the normal friendly. Even during times of high volume like today they made sure everyone got what they wanted. It was rushed and everyone was pleasant. Kudos to all. An extra cook stepping up today during the busy time was appreciated. Thank you for the good service

Rob Crossley Jr

Great food and service at UniFirst in Wilmington now!!

Brian Alan

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You’ll learn how we partner with you to understand your goals and design flexible dining options that national-brand corporate cafeteria management companies simply cannot offer.

Your employees can begin their day or week with contactless ordering and digital payment for fresh, on-site prepared corporate boxed lunches and pre-packed meals, coffee and snacks.  They can also access onsite freshly-stocked office micro markets and enjoy touchless corporate catering with convenient digital delivery. They can use touchless checkout to preorder build-your-own meal kits for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, plus groceries and produce for contactless pick up as they leave the office.

The article, Coronavirus Food Safety: How Café Services is Protecting Corporate Diners & Employees
further outlines how Café Services is ensuring foodservice confidence for our business clients and their teams as they return to offices during COVID-19 and beyond.

Chef Cory packaging hors’ d oeuvres for a social distanced roof top corporate catered reception.

Your Safety is Our Top Priority

Corporate dining food safety has always been our team’s top priority at Café Services. In addition to our   existing food safety practices, we are mitigating the risks of COVID-19 with several enhanced safe food service measures to protect our staff and yours.

Our dedicated Director of Safety leads our Client Safety Team in consistently reviewing and revising our stringent safe food service protocols to exceed CDC guidelines.

Our safety protocols are dictated according to CDC guidelines, but also according to our clients’ desires.  We continuously pivot to accommodate client needs and are flexible/nimble enough to accommodate their wishes.

Café Services Stringent Foodservice Safety Protocols

• • Interactive ServSafe safety training for café staff
  • Personal protective equipment (PPE) including face masks, safety glasses, single-use gloves, aprons, and hair restraints such as hats, caps, and hair nets
  • Regular cleaning and disinfection of surfaces
  • COVID-19 Safety Signage supports social distancing in the cafeteria to limit physical contact
  • Consistent health monitoring of café employees and patrons:
    • Daily temperature checks with touchless thermometers
    • Weekly COVID-19 Declaration of Health
  • Safety Barriers such as plexiglass shields and safety glass minimize staff & café patron contact
  • QR Code with answers to FAQs about foodservice offerings and safety
  • Maintain a roster of corporate cafeteria visitors in support of contact tracing as-needed

One touch service provided for a large group of utility workers during a recent storm.

Food Service Safety Education and Resources

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) celebrates Food Safety Education Month every September to promote food safety education resources for consumers. In 2020, ServSafe, the food safety training and certification program of the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, marked the event for food service operators, employees, and the greater industry with the theme Managing Foodservice Risk: 30 Years of Safety. ServSafe provided educational tools such as top food safety tips, techniques, and best practices to help foodservice operators keep employees and diners safe and healthy throughout the year. Weekly themes included personal hygiene, cleaning and sanitation, safe food preparation, food safety procedures, and COVID-19 safety procedures.

Grab n' go entrees for scan and go service in one of our markets.

National Guidelines for Safe Corporate Dining

The FDA provides these foodservice safety resources on its page titled Best Practices for Re-Opening Retail Food Establishments During the COVID-19 Pandemic:

• • The FDA’s Best Practices Checklist for Retail Food Establishments outlines nine key categories of foodservice safety, plus links to additional resources
  • The FDA’s Best Practices for Retail Food Stores, Restaurants, and Food Pick-Up/Delivery Services outlines key protocols of foodservice and retail food store operations management and managing food pickup and delivery, with links to detailed guidance provided by the CDC, FDA, EPA, & OSHA.

Café Services also follows the science-based guidelines of the FDA Food Code as they pertain to safe food handling in support of a robust food safety culture.  In particular, sanitation and personal hygiene protocols are the most reliable for mitigation of risks and stopping the spread of COVID-19.

Food Code Requirements Applicable to Coronavirus Mitigation:

• • Prohibit sick employees from working
  • Follow strict hand-washing protocols
  • Perform regular surface cleaning and sanitizing
  • Ensure the corporate cafeteria leader is a Certified Food Safety Manager
  • Ensure the manager in charge is on site during all operating hours

The National Restaurant Association provides reopening guidance and checklists for employers in its COVID-19 Reopening Guide for the Restaurant Industry.  Topics include food safety, cleaning and sanitizing, monitoring employee health and hygiene, social distancing, and other best practices.

Other Considerations for Returning to Work During COVID-19

The Centers for Disease Control offers guidance for employers regarding considerations for returning to work as well as what you need to know about food and COVID-19.

Contactless Corporate Dining Services From Meal Ordering to Checkout

We know that your firm’s corporate dining needs are unique to your facility and culture, so we design contactless solutions that support your team’s wellbeing and productivity.  Our flexible, collaborative approach consistently exceeds what clients expect of a corporate cafeteria company.

Customer interface of our online ordering app.

Touchless Digital Ordering and Preordering

Café Services offers several convenient methods of contactless ordering of everything from coffee to snacks to complete lunches featuring fresh, in-house prepared cuisine served with high-quality condiment brands that your employees trust and appreciate.

Staff members can digitally order their food from anywhere on their smartphone, tablet, or desktop computer using our user-friendly POS program.  They simply receive a text when it’s ready for contactless pickup.  We also provide unattended kiosks in the retail micromarkets integrated into our cafes, from which staff members can securely purchase meals and enjoy contactless checkout.

Contact Free Payment

Touchless payment methods for corporate dining include preloaded/prepaid keychain FOBs; tap-and-go smartphone payment; and chip-enabled credit card payment at our user-friendly self-checkout point of sale kiosk; as well as touchless checkout via our online ordering application, customized for guests to safely and conveniently order and pay for meals from their own device.  Many of our clients provide their teams with free or company subsidized coffee and other items that they can easily order online, to be ready at pre-scheduled times, or on-demand.

Customizable Contactless Menus

We work with employers to customize contact-free menus that offer their employees and guests a wide variety of breakfast, lunch and dinner entrees, sides, and beverages.  Employees appreciate our well-organized and attractively-presented digital menus featuring full-color photos and various levels of company subsidized items.

Contactless Corporate Dining Success Profile:

Arbella Insurance - Corporate Office | Quincy, MA

Arbella employees appreciate the opportunity to order meals for preparation on-demand, as well as up to 5 days in advance, which enables convenient scheduling around meetings and events.

Our contactless menu, branded with the Arbella logo, features full-color photos of various items, with attractive listings and suggested modifiers such as side dishes, condiments and more.

Many people also pre-order their coffee and breakfast ahead for the day or week, to be ready for them as they come into work each morning.  They simply proceed to an expedited pre-order pickup station where their coffee, breakfast sandwich, etc. is carefully packaged into tamper-evident packaging with their name on it, and placed in alphabetical order by last name for fast and convenient pickup on their way to their work station.

Corporate boxed lunches for a socially distanced corporate catering event.

Prepackaged Meals for Contactless Corporate Dining Pickup or Delivery

Pre-packed meals, snacks, and drinks can be ordered on-demand or preordered for scheduled pickup with no human contact.  We also regularly-stock our open air screen coolers with freshly-prepared packaged meals barcoded for scan-and-go convenience at cashless, contactless checkout kiosks.

Safely-packaged items for a corporate catered deli luncheon.

Corporate Boxed Lunches

Your office staff will appreciate the opportunity to order or access individually boxed meals, freshly prepared in our on-site kitchen and bakery, available with their choice of homestyle side dishes and quality brand-name chips and condiments. Everything is professionally-packed in upscale containers and attractively presented in tamper-evident packaging.

Take Home Meal Kits

We worked with our teams to pivot and brainstorm innovative take-home meal options to save our clients’ staff members a trip to the grocery store and help them avoid potential exposure in the COVID-19 environment.

Take home meal kit containing components for an upscale brunch for two.

Drawing upon our catering expertise, we now offer a variety of signature take-home meal kits that enable clients to customize an upcoming meal in a box with family-style portions of their favorite foods.  For example, Grill Boxes are popular Café Services take home meal kits.  Essentially a “cookout in a box”, our grill boxes contain uncooked, ready-to-grill proteins sold by the pound such as filet mignon, steak tips, chicken, and burger blend, plus a wide variety of side dishes (salads, grains, etc.), all safely packaged and ready to take home and put in the refrigerator until it’s time to grill.

This expanded program has resulted in a new level of convenience for teams across the locations we serve.  Employees enjoy the opportunity to sample what’s offered in take home meal kits and grill packs by ordering and tasting our daily specials, advertised as “this week’s featured build-your-own grill box/kit”. They can then purchase a kit that serves 4-6 people, or customize a kit with whatever they desire.

In addition to grill packs, we offer other event or seasonal kits, such as:

• • • Mother’s Day and Father’s Day Brunch Boxes – (Brunch, Dinner, etc.)
    • Fourth of July Box
    • Labor Day Box
    • Holiday-themed boxes
    • Custom-themed boxes upon request

We also provide other dining essentials and grocery items such as:

• • • Fresh bakery items (breads, cakes, etc.)
    • Farm-fresh fruits and vegetables
    • Seafood and onsite butchered meats
    • Sliced-to-order Boars Head brand deli meats
    • Dairy products
    • Paper products and cleaning supplies

Safe Cafeteria Contactless Corporate Dining

Items in our cafeterias have been moved from retail reach-in coolers to open air screen coolers for grab-and-go service.  We have temporarily eliminated self-service food stations, reach-in containers of portion-control condiment packages, and other self-service stations such as coffee bars, soda-fountains and salad bars.

We provide business clients with guidance regarding entrance and exit plans, and floor plan updates that support social distancing in the cafeteria such as table spacing and appropriate seating arrangements.

Our expert chefs and dedicated kitchen staff remain onsite behind the scenes, working to enhance each guest’s dining experience!  We’re preparing, cooking, baking, and packaging quality fresh, delicious food for safe, contact-free delivery of individual meals, catered orders, and take-home meal kits – as well as our constantly-stocked coolers.

Socially distanced roof top corporate catered reception ready for guests to arrive.

Contact-Free Catering

Our convenient contact-free catering provides your staff with convenient access to freshly-prepared cuisine, packaged attractively in individual single-serve boxes with brand-name condiments and utensils. Online catering menus can be digitally accessed via smartphone, tablet, or desktop.  All orders are bagged and sealed with tamper-evident packaging, and placed in recyclable cardboard boxes for pickup.  We also perform contactless drop-off catering of meetings and events, with individually-packaged meals and snacks, for delivery anywhere in the building.

Micro Markets

Our micro markets are a proven, practical resource for grab-and-go, anytime-access to onsite prepared and safely prepackaged meals, snacks and beverages.  In support of our commitment to contactless corporate dining, micromarkets have expanded to become touchless retail food markets integrated within our client’s company cafeterias.  Patrons can self-checkout at an unattended kiosk and quickly pay with using our user-friendly point of sale system to access their credit card on file, or by tapping their phone, or using their keychain FOB with their company subsidized cafeteria account.

Contactless Dining Success Profile:

Jordan’s Furniture - Corporate Office & Warehouse | East Taunton, MA

The iconic and innovative furniture-industry giant Jordan’s Furniture has long-entrusted Café Services to safely nourish employees at the firm’s 750,000 sq. ft. corporate campus.

When COVID-19 became a concern, Café Services pivoted to seamlessly expand and integrate a fully-stocked self-service retail micromarket of freshly prepared foods-to-go within the corporate office cafeteria.  It features attractively presented doorless air screen coolers loaded daily with fresh sandwiches, salads, baked goods, beverages, chips, snacks, candy and energy bars.

Employees enter from one direction, pick up their selections, choose from several fast and easy no-touch pay options at an unattended kiosk, and exit in another direction.  The Jordan’s corporate warehouse also features a freshly-stocked self-service, contactless retail market.

Café Services provides several convenient contactless self-checkout options:

• • Prepaid, preloaded, or company-subsidized cafeteria keychain FOB
  • Smartphone tap and go payment with Apple Pay, Google Pay or Samsung Pay
  • Chip-enabled credit card
  • Self-checkout Kiosk POS System

10 Coronavirus Tips for Eating at the Office Cafeteria

We’ve prepared these 10 practical tips as your guide for safely eating at the office cafeteria – and ordering cafeteria takeout for pickup or delivery – during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

1. Avoid Self-serve Stations

A best-practice of safe food service during COVID-19 is to eliminate self-serve stations in restaurants and cafeterias.  The safer alternative to  is to shop for prepackaged offerings and individually boxed meals that we regularly stock in our cafes and micro markets in the workplace.

2. Look for Signs of Cleaning Protocols

Look for evidence of cleaning protocols and other health-supports such as regular disinfection of high-touch points, available hand sanitizer, safety signage, safety barriers, and employees wearing personal protective equipment such as gloves, masks, safety glasses, and more.

3. Choose Boxed Lunches Over Food Stations

Self-serve food stations are temporarily closed in favor of professionally boxed lunches filled with individual containers of fresh food, condiments, and serving utensils. Boxed meals are a convenient and enjoyable way for employees to safely maintain their energy and productivity.

4. Avoid Cafeterias that Do Not Practice Social Distancing

Science-based evidence supports the consistent practice of social distancing in cafeterias. Owners and employees of all office buildings served by Café Services enjoy the peace of mind that our COVID-19 safety protocols include stringent social distancing requirements and processes.

5. Follow Alternate Dining Room Seating Plans and Traffic Flow
Our Café Services Dining Managers work with clients to develop plans for traffic flow that limit close contact and minimize social interaction. For locations that offer limited dining room seating, we work with facility owners to alternate open tables for safe dining room service.

6. Use Contact-Free Food Service

Employees receive a text when their order is ready for pickup via contact-free food service.  This supports social distancing by limiting the number of people in the cafeteria at any given time.

7. Preorder and Prepay for Meals, Snacks, Coffee and Beverages

Preordering and paying for meals, snacks and coffee is the safest and most efficient way for staff members to obtain freshly-made, professionally served food.

8. Look for Take-home Meal Kits

Employees are encouraged to use our digital ordering application to order take-home meal kits. On a regular basis, we post new available options for take-home meal kits filled with their requested quantity of fresh, quality entrees, sides, and desserts.

9. Order Ahead for Meals and Groceries for the Week

Avoid a trip and exposure to the grocery store by ordering fresh, custom-prepared, multiple-portion take home meals and groceries from Café Services convenient retail food and grocery market.

10. Take Advantage of Contact-Free Catering

Enhance the experience of meal-time meetings and events by taking advantage of Café Services contact-free catering services. Digitally review and choose from hot and cold entrees, sides, snacks and desserts, prepared by professional servers to be ready when you need them.

Frequently Asked Questions about COVID-19 & Corporate Cafeteria Safety