The cost of food just seems negligible, and at the point where you’re putting all of this infrastructure investment into it, and offering the discount, why not just pay for it?
You mean, pay for the food that employees go out and buy with this card? Well, what's to stop someone from having a $1000 lunch at Saison every day? (It's right across the street from the Cloudflare SF office!)
You'd obviously have to put a cap on the amount people spend. But then people feel like they have to spend that much or they are missing out. This quickly leads to the obvious question: Why don't you just give us the money and let us decide how to spend it? Again, I'd rather just have the money added to my salary than have to deal with spending caps.
Every tech company I've ever heard of that offers free food does it by having the company acquire the food directly and provide it to the employees on-site. But doing that is a whole logistical thing you have to commit to, and has plenty of down sides.
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The cost of food just seems negligible, and at the point where you’re putting all of this infrastructure investment into it, and offering the discount, why not just pay for it?
You mean, pay for the food that employees go out and buy with this card? Well, what's to stop someone from having a $1000 lunch at Saison every day? (It's right across the street from the Cloudflare SF office!)
You'd obviously have to put a cap on the amount people spend. But then people feel like they have to spend that much or they are missing out. This quickly leads to the obvious question: Why don't you just give us the money and let us decide how to spend it? Again, I'd rather just have the money added to my salary than have to deal with spending caps.
Every tech company I've ever heard of that offers free food does it by having the company acquire the food directly and provide it to the employees on-site. But doing that is a whole logistical thing you have to commit to, and has plenty of down sides.