Employee Meal Credit Policy

[chawang90]

Want to hear thoughts on the right amount of reporting and structure for the Employee Meal Credit benefit.

1. Unlimited versus limited
2. Automated reporting versus manual reporting versus no reporting
3. Personal use only?
4. Picking up in person versus piggybacking on other orders.

[zeke]

What about a promo code per employee?

$100/month =~ 2 free meals per week

Didn't notice an issue for this, but what about office lunch? Some companies have lunch catered because it keeps all the employees from straying from the office for too long, and in theory they spend more time working as a result.

Heroku offers free catered lunch in-house every day. This was great, because it gave employees a chance to socialize, which we might not have done as much otherwise. It was a nice forum for hashing out work challenges too.

npm takes everyone out to lunch every day. Nice to have lunch paid for, but very ineffecient to go out to a restaurant with ten people every day. Would not recommend.

[egustafson5]

Re: office lunch — I like the idea of Josephine food for team lunch, maybe twice a month? it's been nice and relatively efficient when we've been doing it for 3rd interviews.

1. I think it makes sense to vary by team. Cook Team should definitely get unlimited — it's a key part of our job to go to meals regularly. I think having limited (but generous) meal credit for other teams would potentially help encourage people to actually go to the meal and chat with the cook + customers, rather than just ordering from someone else. exceptions could be made if we're all working late or if we want to boost the sales of a particular meal, and we order as a whole team. think it'd be great to have expectation that all non-cook team members go to at least 2 meals/month and spend a good chunk of time conversing w/ cook & customers and soaking up the experience.
2. I don't think reporting is really necessary. we see orders coming and can check people's order history if we think someone is abusing. I like starting off with more trust and adjusting as necessary.
3. Yeah, should be 90% personal use. I think occasionally ordering for a friend isn't horrible.
4. See my reply for #1. Expectation should be that you're going to the meal, except in extenuating circumstances (e.g. something crazy came up at work & you need someone else to pickup, we're ordering as a team bc we're working late or trying to boost someone's sales).