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The positive impact of food perks on employee attendance are undeniable.

But a lot of companies don't offer employee meal programs or other daily benefits that make the RTO requirements worth the time, effort, and money it takes to get there.

We're wondering what your getting offered (if anything) that's making the pivot back to full time or hybrid office worthwhile?

Sign up for the next Fooda webinar on 5/19 @ 1:00 PM CST to learn how 100+ leading companies are setting the table for employee lunch in 2026. ‍

What can your workplace learn about its own food program strategy from our survey of workplace experience and people leaders?

Some companies are actively building culture around the lunch hour. They are encouraging real breaks, creating shared meals, and making food a reason to be in the office. Others are quietly letting employees eat alone at their desks, skip lunch entirely, or figure it out on their own.

The gap between those two groups is showing up in morale, connection, and retention. In this webinar, we share what the data reveals and what the leading companies are doing differently right now.

- 83% of leaders say food has a moderate to significant impact on workplace culture

- 61% are actively encouraging employees to take a real break away from their desk

- 47% say team members eating together is a behavior they actively encourage

‍Here's what you'll walk away with

1. Fresh benchmark data on how lunch behaviors are changing, straight from workplace experience and people leaders at 100+ companies
2. The emerging best practices for how leading employers are setting the table, from intentional break culture to shared team meal rituals
3. What employees increasingly expect from variety, quality, and local options and how that's reshaping what a good food program looks like in 2026
4. Practical steps you can bring back to your team, whether you're building a food program from scratch or looking to level up what you already have

 

The Fooda Price Index (FPI) tracks what Americans are truly paying for lunch at work, based on millions of real transactions over the last five years.

First finding: lunch prices are up nearly 5% year over year, outpacing overall inflation. Not shocking if you've bought a chicken salad lately.

We'll be updating it regularly. What are you paying for lunch these days?

https://www.fooda.com/lp/fooda-price-index

There's something exciting about popup restaurants. A local chef trying something new, a concept that only exists for a limited time, a meal that feels like you stumbled onto something nobody else knows about yet.

But they don't always deliver. What's your experience been with popup restaurants in your city? Found any worth shouting about? Or have you been burned one too many times?