Fuel Your Employees: Innovative Dining Through Flexible Solutions

Introducing Flexible Dining Solutions —Customized to Meet the Changing Needs of Your Guests

Today’s employees have specific expectations when it comes to dining in the workplace. They want fast-casual dining, grab-n-go snacks, fresh coffee options on-demand, convenient specialty retail and dependable delivery. Not only will offering the options they crave satisfy them, but also it will help them feel cared for — which is an important consideration in a competitive talent environment.

At Aramark, we've found that meeting and exceeding employee expectations when it comes to dining is a key ingredient in creating satisfying workplace experiences. Whether it is a morning coffee run with a coworker or a solo snack break mid-afternoon to reenergize, Flexible Dining Solutions enhance dining spaces and improve the workplace experience.

WHAT are flexible dining solutions?

Flexible Dining Solutions are simple, flexible and smaller than typical retail foodservice offerings that allow high-quality hospitality even in the most underserved or challenging spaces. These tech-forward, elevated dining solutions help deliver everything from quick snacks and local meals to fresh coffee and specialty retail at just the right moment for your customers.

OUR FULL SUITE OF FLEXIBLE
BUSINESS DINING SOLUTIONS

Our collection of flexible dining solutions and services are available in four key categories. Choose one or more based on your available space and on the experiences your guests desire.

CAFÉ CONCEPTS — built for speed and flavor
CONVENIENCE RETAIL — seeking easy and quick
COFFEE — quick stops for a cup of joe
DELIVERY — the ultimate dining convenience

CAFÉ CONCEPTS BUILT FOR SPEED
AND FLAVOR

Even some of the best fine-dining restaurants are making a fast-casual pivot. Why? Because it’s what consumers want today. Fast-casual restaurants design their food and menus with to-go in mind. Aramark offers popular fast-casual concepts from which you can choose, depending on what your customers crave — fresh and healthy, grab-n-go coffee and snacks, or authentic local and global flavors.

3 CAFÉ CONCEPT OPTIONS

Aramark offers three leading Café Concepts from which you can choose.

TRUE EATS

Fresh and healthy dining

True Eats is a mini café that serves as an open invitation to inspired, fresh and healthy dining. It creates a welcoming environment that complements the workplace through on-trend and mindful offerings. Winner: 2018 Best Concept Food Management.

SIMPLE SPOON

Grab-n-go coffee and snacks

The Simple Spoon Lounge is designed to fuel guests with an added feel-good factor. This lounge concept offers scalable solutions from prepared meals to grab-n-go coffee and snacks. With pre-order and pay kiosks, self-checkout and mobile ordering, Simple Spoon offers a simple, modern approach for guests.

LOCAL RESTAURANT ROW

Authentic local and global favors

Local restaurants are the cornerstone of communities — and consumers love them. This concept leverages partnerships with established community restaurants, food trucks and area chefs to bring authentic, local favorites and global flavors. Bring the personalities and passion from your local neighborhood and beyond with this concept.

CONVENIENCE RETAIL SEEKING EASY AND QUICK

As an increasing number of employees are seeking out convenience stores for more of their pantry-filling needs, Aramark offers four c-store concepts. Each location is developed with thoughtful intention to deliver an elevated experience depending on what works best for your space and your employees.

4 C-STORE OPTIONS

Aramark offers four leading Convenience Retail service options from which you can choose.

PROVISIONS ON DEMAND

Fresh, quality items within reach

Provisions on Demand is our convenience concept that offers flexible, scalable formats to deliver in-store convenience experiences for employees where they can grab snacks, coffee, prepared meals and groceries. Winner: Best Concept Food Management.

CUSTOMIZABLE CONVENIENCE

Flexible grab-n-go modules

This customizable convenience solution fits into any space. Choose from a variety of modules to streamline or elevate the guest experience, including options for grab-n-go, packaged fresh or frozen meals, scalable coffee solutions, and freshly prepared meal add-ons. Winner: 2021 Best Concept Food Management.

QUICK EATS

Digital, hassle-free convenience

Quick Eats is an immersive digitized store with smart shelf technology. It offers a hassle-free, contactless, walk-in, walk-out shopping experience 24/7/365. This solution is a premium add to any on-site solution, or a great fit for public retail settings, such as apartments, hotels, condos and gyms. Winner: 2020 Best Concept Food Management.

AUTOMATED EATS

Fresh, delicious offerings day or night

Automated Eats provides fresh, delicious offerings 24/7. It has an on-demand, contactless, standalone food machine with hot or cold prepared meals and a self-checkout. Offerings include salads, sandwiches, wraps, parfaits, protein packs, fresh-cut fruits and veggies, and a wide variety of snacks and beverages.

COFFEE
QUICK STOPS FOR A CUP OF JOE

Aficionados of coffee and tea are ready for new ways to get their “cup of joe” every day. What’s important to them is having it ready to go wherever they are.

2 COFFEE OPTIONS

Aramark offers two fast-service Coffee service options from which you can choose.

COFFEE BARS

Satisfying a caffeinated culture

Whether it’s your favorite local brand or our own Java City Coffee concept, our elevated Coffee Bar experience includes everything from attended coffee shops to self-brewed coffee solutions.

BREAKROOM EXPERIENCES

Hassle-free coffee convenience

For smaller spaces and fewer on-site employees, breakroom coffee experiences offer a hassle-free approach to creating custom, convenient service.

DELIVERY SERVICESTHE ULTIMATE
DINING CONVENIENCE

It’s never been easier to bring food to customers. Delivery services have grown in the past decade from fledgling enterprises to mainstays of our culture. Even before the pandemic, online food delivery sales are estimated to grow as high as $220 billion by 2023. Today, consumers in every walk of life expect this ultimate convenience.

3 DELIVERY SERVICES OPTIONS

Aramark offers three leading Delivery Service options from which you can choose.

ORDER AHEAD AND PICK-UP

Serve more with less labor

Cater to your guests’ schedules by enabling them to order ahead and pick up their food on the go. Not only does it offer a streamlined experience, but also pre-ordering cuts the lines for everyone and allows you to serve more meals without impacting labor.

GOOD UNCLE

Delivering world-class meals

Easily accessible, high-quality meals created by a world-class culinary team, who crafts a multi-category menu optimized specifically for delivery. The service offers delivery and pick-up with no minimum order.

MUNCH MAIL

Perks for employees

To meet the needs of companies who are looking for innovative new ways to bolster their work-from-home employees' job satisfaction, or simply reward any employee, Aramark created Munch Mail. Munch Mail delivers a wide variety of snack boxes directly to people’s doorsteps. Instead of grabbing snacks in the office, the snacks come to them at home.

CHOOSE YOUR PERFECT
EMPLOYEE DINING EXPERIENCES

To discuss the ideal curated Flexible Dining Solutions for your business, reach out to us today:

PERSONALIZE
YOUR WORKPLACE

Select individual products or curated packages

SCHEDULE
A CONSULTATION

Get a workplace review and discuss your specific needs

RELAX AND
AWAIT DELIVERY

Order online, give us a call or go mobile

REPLENISH
AND REPEAT

SEE HOW FLEXIBLE DINING SOLUTIONS CAN IMPROVE YOUR EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE.

Aramark provides dining experiences that serve your employees exactly what they are looking for when they want it — from fast-casual options to coffee on the go.

As an employer, you are always looking for enhancements to recruit and retain today's best workers. Aramark can help you create those experiences and serve employees exactly what they want through flexible solutions.