What’s your impression of your current canteen furniture? Does it complement your other office accessories? How often do your staff members make use of this place and space? Do they enjoy sitting here, eating lunch, having tea and coffee breaks or would your personnel prefer to eat and take a break at their normal workstations, if permitted to do so?
When last did you upgrade or buy canteen furniture? And now, the really tough question to answer: Do you really care either way? You should care a great deal because your staff members are your most important, most valuable asset, without whom you’d have no company or viable, sustainable business operation – beginning and end of story.
Besides it being morally, humanely and ethically correct to permit, if not insist that your employees have and take the prerequisite breaks, during which they suspend their workplace activities to relax, fortify themselves with a meal, prepacked lunch, snacks and/or refreshments, the South African Basic Conditions of Employment Act insists upon regular breaks for employees.
Besides, you wouldn’t dream of regarding your most valued human resources and assets as slaves or mere workhorses.
Therefore, don’t neglect the appearance and intended optimal function of your staff canteen, its furniture, as well as the well-being and harmonious disposition of the very people who are meant to enjoy, appreciate and utilise this important area in and of the workplace. Instead, buy canteen furniture and decorate the space so that it will elevate your staff’s mood to facilitate a happy work environment.
At cocktail parties, finger foods, snacks, eats and treats are supplied by the hosts and are either served buffet-style or by waiters, who circulate amongst guests with loaded trays of food and drink, which they offer to guests to eat and drink while standing.
However, this is seldom, if ever, the function and purpose of a typical office canteen, irrespective of whether the company – the employer – supplies sponsored meals and refreshments or whether employees bring their foodstuffs from home. No one really enjoys eating while standing up, nor does anyone relax when doing so.
Your staff canteen should be large enough to accommodate a sufficient number of tables and chairs for your entire staff complement or the number of people who take lunch and tea or coffee breaks at one time if meal and refreshment breaks are staggered.
Buy canteen furniture if and when your current pieces are due for replacement, preferably sooner rather than later, and well before anything falls apart or becomes difficult to maintain and unhygienic – offering places and tiny gaps for food-borne bacteria and harmful agents to gather, multiply and then spread debilitating infectious gastric illnesses.
The question of where to buy canteen furniture that is smart and built for purpose is an easy one to answer. Buy from Quantum Office Furniture, our reputable company that supplies virtually all office-related appointments and accessories, bar the people to man the workstations and occupy the canteen during break times.
Quantum is normally able to deliver and install ex-stock items within 5 – 7 working days, post-confirmed receipt of order. The company also supplies and installs its products nationwide, throughout South Africa, our beautiful, bountiful sunny country and the beloved home of our rainbow nation.
This one’s a question that only you can answer because the ultimate choice is yours and yours alone. However, since we and our friendly, helpful and professional personnel at Quantum Office Furniture are committed and dedicated to our passion for our customers, their needs and wishes, our products, our industry and our own business, customers may rest assured of our best attention, advice and recommendations, commensurate with their budget requirements – top-end and rather more affordable.
We offer some 11 different canteen tables and 15 individual canteen chair styles, some with armrests, others without and available in numerous colours and materials. There’s no need for a dull and drab, boring canteen area, where people socialise, interact and have fun, in addition to consuming food and beverages in a relaxed, harmonious environment.
As long as you buy canteen furniture that is affordably priced from Quantum, you’re in good hands, as are your employees, who sit down and enjoy the benefits of having a separate space to eat, drink and be soberly merry.