Unless they plan on dramatically expanding their product offerings, "Improve[ing] the Health of Humanity" sounds like disingenuous marketing-speak.
Don't get me wrong, catering is important and meals are a great way to bring employees together. Having used Zesty, the meals are from local restaurants and, though there are healthy options, there's lots of greasy options available.
Why are these catering companies branding themselves like charities?
1/ The team enjoys having high quality, healthy food served right here in our kitchen, they barely have to move to eat.
2/ People end up talking about work stuff during lunch most of the time
3/ When they are not talking about lunch, they're still hanging out with co-workers, which is good for our culture.
4/ Our team takes shorter lunch breaks than they did when they went out to eat, which means we are getting more hours of productivity from everybody.
5/ Hosting meals daily makes it easy to invite folks in for lunch, so it helps with doing external meetings as well--if you are interested in working at Flexport, come have lunch with us anytime :)
6/ It's pretty affordable, b/c we're getting economies of scale by everybody purchasing together, so for the extra hours of work and bonding, we get an insanely good deal.
I love Zesty and hope they can scale the business and make it very profitable because it is one of those companies whose value proposition for its customers is a no-brainer.
Question: how do you efficiently filter out job candidates who have lives of their own? My company is trying to make recruiting more efficient but we are always inundated with talented people who selfishly want to invest some of their time and energy away from the business.
Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated!
This is an odd statement since I know there are at least two direct competitors who are far larger.
Are they available?
Open to remote?
I have huge respect for 1) the aggressive growth and customer development; 2) the operational roll out (which, given each customer has Zesty workers onsite to set out the food, is a huge operational nightmare); 3) being humble enough to deviate and pivot the initial idea from a mobile app to a much more operations heavy b2b play
David, if you don't mind answering, what made you decide to call it a day at groupspaces? Was there a certain event or circumstance that made you think "okay lets work on something else now".
