Berlin, September 17, 2024

The key points at a glance:

• Individual selection of daily changing dishes via a digital canteen solution
• Flexible delivery times to the office location
• Self-payment by employees with flexible employer subsidies
• User-friendly central management allows for adjustments to fluctuating office attendance

heycater!, the leading online marketplace for catering and event services, is launching heykantine!, a modern online canteen that now enables companies and their employees to make daily workplace dining more personal and flexible. In the heykantine! app, employees can choose from daily changing dishes to create their own personal menu for the work week, tailored to individual dietary preferences and their planned office attendance. The meals are freshly prepared and delivered to the office ready to eat at the chosen delivery times.

The perfect answer to modern work

For companies, heykantine! offers the key to efficient dining management in a hybrid work world and the answer to the growing and diverse nutritional needs of employees—with unique variety and without the fixed costs of a physical canteen. heykantine! can be set up with just a few clicks in the heycater! corporate account and managed with minimal effort. Employers can also access detailed reports and, in particular, configure how and to what extent they wish to subsidize office meals. Since employees only pay the reduced price for their lunch, for example, heykantine! is an excellent employer benefit and can serve as an incentive to make working from the office more attractive. Naturally, heykantine! also allows for tax-efficient structuring of employer subsidies. heycater! curates the daily menu selection according to the employer's requirements and manages the execution with the highest-rated catering partners on the platform. Companies also have access to a dedicated account manager at all times, who is happy to help find the optimal heykantine! setup for their specific needs.

Tailored office dining as a key benefit for employees

Product developer Josephine Z. from Berlin tested heykantine! and is thrilled: "I found heykantine! super easy to use from the start; it’s really intuitive. I especially love the huge selection of delicious dishes I can choose from—whether vegetarian, vegan, meat, or fish—there’s something new every day. I also think it’s great that the meals are delivered in individually labeled, reusable bowls. Compared to a traditional canteen, I don't have to worry about my preference being unavailable if a meeting runs longer than planned. Plus, I can control it so that food is only cooked for me when I’m actually in the office and not traveling or working from home—that’s part of a sustainable use of resources for me. In any case, I look forward to the heykantine! delivery when I arrive at the office in the morning—and my team members feel the same way. We usually sit down at a table together and enjoy it—everyone is happy! Overall, heykantine! has made my office routine much more varied and exciting."

Full compensation of greenhouse gas emissions

heycater! places great importance on sustainability and has been fully offsetting its own carbon footprint for several years. A few weeks ago, the company also announced that it is now offsetting 100 percent of the CO2 emissions from all catered events it facilitates through targeted investments in environmental protection. In collaboration with a specialized partner, heycater! funds various climate protection projects to compensate for its own and its customers' emissions, focusing exclusively on projects with high and lasting environmental impact. All heycater! customers benefit from this automatically at no extra cost, and this naturally applies to heykantine! users as well.

About heycater!

heycater! was founded in the fall of 2015 with the mission to revolutionize the B2B catering market. The idea was born when co-founder Therese Köhler tried to organize catering for a photo shoot—which turned out to be extremely difficult. Ordering high-quality catering according to one's own wishes had to be easier.

Today, over 2,500 active business customers and more than 500 catering partners in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland work with heycater!. The company has made it its mission to make organizing business catering fast, digital, and completely uncomplicated, ensuring that workplace dining is always taken care of.

With a broad network of partners, heycater! offers customized solutions for every type of event. Since its founding, heycater! has organized over 45,000 catering events, placing the highest value on quality and customer satisfaction from the very beginning.

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