A staff canteen your people actually use

A normal canteen is tendered to one operator with one kitchen and one menu. Variety depends on that operator keeping it up, and when demand dips their margins dip with it, so the menu narrows and demand falls further — which is how companies end up re-tendering every few years. We run the canteen with a rotating group of hawkers and chefs instead, so the line-up keeps evolving and a cook who is not performing can be changed without a new tender.

The company does. The space, the kitchen, the equipment, the fit-out of the serving area and the utilities are provided by you as the occupier. We take on the licensing for the food operation and run it day to day — the hawkers and chefs who cook, the menu, the people on the counter, the cleaning, and the ordering and payment system.

On-site canteens generally need the headcount to support a kitchen running every day — typically several hundred staff on site. Below that the economics rarely work for anyone, which is why we also run Livingmenu Cloud Canteen: the same stalls and the same prices, delivered to your guardhouse, lobby or pantry, with no headcount minimum and no kitchen needed. Tell us your numbers and we will say which of the two fits.

Meals are priced like a coffeeshop or hawker centre rather than at a captive-audience mark-up. Staff pay for their own meals unless the company chooses to subsidise, and the employer can co-pay any share, tracked per person. Commercial terms for running the canteen itself depend on the site, the headcount and the space, so they are quoted rather than published.

Yes. The employer can co-pay any share of each meal, tracked per person and billed monthly, so a meal subsidy becomes a reportable line rather than something reconciled by hand from vendor invoices.

Yes. Halal meals come from our partnering Muslim-owned stalls, and halal certification is available through those vendors on request. Vegetarian is on the line-up daily at the same prices.

That is the situation this is built for — a canteen that exists but is not being used. Tell us what is in place, what the current arrangement looks like and when it comes up for renewal, and we will tell you honestly whether the multi-vendor model would change anything at your site.

Then an on-site canteen is the wrong answer and we will say so. Livingmenu Cloud Canteen covers exactly that case: daily meals from the same stalls at the same prices, delivered to your guardhouse, lobby or pantry, with no kitchen and no headcount minimum.

Yes, including night and rotating shifts. Where a site runs through the night but the overnight crew is too small to keep a kitchen open, night shift meal delivery is usually the better fit — meals arrive at least 15 minutes before the break starts, without the canteen having to stay staffed at 3am.