Within the organization, there may be varying standards of Wi-Fi available for use by the employees throughout their working day. In many circumstances, they may only be provided with a cabled system throughout the building. Should the corporate food service provider offer its own open Wi-Fi network to encourage individuals to remain in the cafeteria?
Who Benefits from The Wi-Fi?
It is important to discuss Wi-Fi requirements when organizing the contract between the corporate food service provider and the organization providing the employees/customers.
From the corporate food service provider’s point of view, they will prefer that employees stay, if possible, to use the benefits of the cafeteria. This will keep the cafeteria busy and improve potential profit levels.
From the company’s point of view, they will hope that their employees do not take too much time away from their working location purely to be able to access personal Wi-Fi facilities. This will depend upon the company’s rules and regulations about using personal smartphones and accessing social media during their working hours.
Where an individual must leave the cafeteria to be able to access their social media, this will reduce the time taken consuming foods and beverages. This will also force the individual to use some of their data plans. The threat of expensive overuse of a data plan is often an individual’s biggest worry.
Your company may have rules and regulations that reduce the use of smartphones during the time taken in the cafeteria. This may increase the social activity between individuals but may also force them to move elsewhere to check their status messages.
Should you not provide a Wi-Fi option you may lose business as the corporate food service provider as many of your customers may leave the location and seek a similar activity elsewhere, where Wi-Fi is free with their coffee.