ezCater today announced enhancements to Relish by ezCater, its employee meal program solution. The new self-serve features offer organizations greater control and flexibility to manage their workplace meal programs.
“Relish has helped Stax simplify the in-office experience while making it easier to get people excited about coming in,” said Natalie Rosenthal, executive assistant, Stax, in a statement. “Our people are happy to sit together, share a meal, and discover a new restaurant.”
Relish enables workplaces to create a recurring program that brings individually packaged meals from local restaurants right to their teams. It can scale up or down for fluctuating headcounts, giving workplaces a degree of flexibility that corporate cafeterias can’t provide. Organizations set a meal subsidy and schedule, employees order their own meals online or through the Relish app from a rotating list of restaurants, and ezCater handles all the logistics.
The latest updates to Relish allow office and facility managers in charge of food to further customize their organization’s meal programs. New features include:
- Customize meal plans: Create, modify, and delete recurring employee meal plans, including adjusting company meal subsidies to align with evolving budgets and employee needs.
- Request new restaurant options: Easily request changes to the featured restaurants for upcoming meals, keeping options fresh and appealing to employees.
- Schedule ad-hoc meals: Arrange extra, one-off meals outside the regular schedule for special occasions or team gatherings.
- Manage holiday closures: Indicate upcoming holiday closures in the portal to automatically cancel unnecessary scheduled meals and prevent extra costs.
- Easily cancel scheduled meals: Cancel upcoming meals for the workplace two business days in advance directly in the portal.
“Today’s workplaces require adaptable solutions, especially with the rise of hybrid work models,” said Cindy Klein Roche, chief growth officer, ezCater, in a statement. “Our new Relish features are about giving organizations the power to create a flexible meal program that truly works for them. Workplaces looking to boost employee engagement can feed their people without worrying about logistics, overhead costs, or fluctuating headcounts.”
The new features come at a time when meal programs for employees are on the rise: a recent ezCater survey revealed that 43 percent of companies now have a recurring meal program, a 17 percent increase from 2024. In fact, companies like NorthPoint Development, Stax, and SeatGeek have incorporated an employee meal program into their benefits package to help drive on-site attendance and employee engagement.
