Softheon, a Long Island tech company, surprised its employees with a Maui Wowi espresso bar for an unplanned employee appreciation event last week. No big announcement, no posters promoting an event — just a really pleasant and unexpected “thank you” for the company’s most important assets.
The company (who we worked with previously) called us a day before the event to see if we could come in, and we were able to do it. We made espresso drinks and hot cocoa, which was perfect for a not-quite-springlike Long Island day at the end of March.
Our human resources contact made the event more special by placing her Amazon Echo Dot on our serving table. “Alexa, play coffeehouse music.” And voila, we had a virtual pop-up cafe for their 80 or so staff. A lot of “Hey, what’s this?” and “Can you come here every day?” If only!
Our mobile espresso service was the morning event at Softheon, and in the afternoon, Mister Softee was coming. Wish we could have hung around for that!
Many times, human resource teams plan elaborate employee appreciation events. We’ve catered many of them with our mobile espresso and mobile smoothie bars. But employee appreciation events don’t always have to be big budget affairs with a lot of hoopla. Sometimes, simple is best.
Another benefit of an employee appreciation event, especially at a tech company — it gets people interacting and talking, as you can see in the short video. Tech workers spend a lot of time in front of screens, so it’s great to see them chatting each other up while they wait (and it’s not a long wait) for a latte.
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