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White papers, eBooks and articles to help you stay current on workplace food trends and effectively evaluate catering partners.

 

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Lunch Money: Understanding the Funding Structures

This paper explores the different funding options and how to pick a structure that aligns with program goals. We look at when individual ordering systems work well and when centralized catering delivers strategic benefits.

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Scaling Lunch: Managing Food Programs Across Multiple Cities

Feeding large, distributed teams is complex and requires systems thinking. This paper reveals how leading global food managers create these dynamic programs and the ways they stay dialed into the key metrics and logistics despite being remote.

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Sifted saved Client $300k/year with Precision Portioning

Read how Sifted helped a major tech company cut annual catering costs by more than $300k by replacing their vendor's rigid, headcount-based, old-school portioning with Sifted's data-driven forecasting and dynamic portioning.

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Feeding Culture: Complete Guide to Office Catering

This guide is written for Workplace Teams who intend to build a high-impact lunch program with ease and confidence. In this paper, we'll review the 3 corporate catering models and how to evaluate which is best suited for your office.

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Transforming Workplace Food Programs Through Data

Advanced analytics are revolutionizing workplace catering by shifting it from a "serve and hope" model to precise, data-informed services. Hear from Sifted's CEO and Head of Analytics on how Sifted created an industry-leading analytics program.

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Office Catering Models: Side-by-side Comparison Chart

Selecting the right catering partner is crucial, but before evaluating vendors you need to decide which model is best suited for your office. Use this chart to compare the models and find which aligns with your overarching company goals.

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