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Software for workplace lunch programmes
A daily office lunch programme is not a corporate meal plan on a faster clock. The shorter cycle changes which parts of the operation are hard.
The cycle is the difference
A weekly meal plan gives you days of notice; a daily lunch programme often gives you hours. That inverts the usual balance — selection and production planning compress into a single morning, while long-horizon forecasting becomes almost irrelevant.
The practical consequence is that your cut-off is measured in hours rather than days, and everything downstream has to be able to move at that speed without a person rebuilding a sheet.
Decisions that shape the operation
Individual boxes or shared service
Named boxes let you carry allergen data to a person; a buffet tray cannot. If anyone in the office has a genuine allergy, that decision is made for you.
Who confirms the count
Usually one office contact, and usually the same morning. This has to be self-service or it becomes a daily phone call.
One window, many recipients
Routing is trivial and timing is not. Arriving forty minutes late to a fixed lunch hour is a failed delivery even though the food arrived.
Where this is the wrong tool
If your programme is genuinely ad-hoc — different offices, different days, quoted per event — that is event catering and Mealroh models a standing commitment instead. You would be fighting the data model daily.
It also has no same-day ordering marketplace, no menu-per-day publishing to individual employees, and no payroll deduction. Those belong in a workplace-catering platform built for them.
Common questions
- How is a daily lunch programme different from a weekly meal plan?
- The cycle. Notice compresses from days to hours, so the cut-off is measured in hours and production planning happens the same morning rather than against a frozen week.
- Should office lunches be individually boxed?
- If anyone has a genuine allergy, yes. Allergen data travels with a named box; it cannot travel with a shared tray, and nobody at the buffet is checking.
- Does Mealroh handle payroll deduction or per-employee ordering?
- No. It models a standing programme with a single office contact confirming counts. Individual employee ordering and payroll integration belong in a workplace-catering platform.
See it running against a real kitchen
The product pages show the actual admin loaded with a demonstration kitchen — production, packing, routes and the dashboard, exactly as an operator sees them.
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