Investing inSocial sustainability

Curating memorable food experiences is the end goal of everything we do; serving people is the foundation for every action.

Guckenheimer is a place where people can be who they are, become what they want, and be part of something bigger. Our focus on diversity, employee development, social mobility, health and safety, and community investment provides you with service excellence and placemakers vested in production, performance and well-being.

Hearts Palm Salad in reusable dish celebrates local seasonal ingredients like tomato, red onion, avocado, almonds and herbs.

Celebrating Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging

We embrace diverse perspectives and the creativity and innovation they lend to our client food solutions.

Chef slices locally sourced vegetables to create flavorful, sustainable dishes that reduce waste and showcase creative menus.

Guckenheimer is a place to be you. We celebrate the authentic self as we celebrate authentic flavors in the dishes we serve.

Two chefs from diverse backgrounds collaborate in the kitchen, fostering a culture of belonging and teamwork through food.

Employee Resource Groups help craft our strategy, policies, and goals across client sites and our own workplaces.

A happy culinarian thrives in an inclusive professional kitchen. Her mentorship, joy and hospitality inspires other women.

We are committed to advancing diversity, equity and belonging for all — and are proud to be a leader in promoting acceptance in our workforce.

A vibrant food truck featuring diverse ethnic cuisines offers employees a variety of flavorful and inclusive meal options.

Through equal procurement opportunity, we support certified small businesses and enterprises owned by minorities, women, veterans, LGBTQI+, and disabled/disadvantaged persons.

Investing in Our Communities

By recognizing and leveraging the talent in our own backyards, we connect people and places, elevate clients’ brands, and forge relationships between your employees and local businesses.

Select recent initiatives include:

Compensated residency for local, independent food entrepreneurs on-site at client facilities

Fostering of connection, purpose and relationships for veterans via Hives for Heroes

Pop-up events, kiosks and food trucks featuring community businesses, MWBEs, non-profits and B Corps

Food programming for culturally significant days, sporting events, and other notable happenings

Partnerships with Goodr, Second Harvest, Copia and Chefs to End Hunger to distribute surplus food

Sourcing of produce, fruit, meat and other goods from local distributors and suppliers

Commitment to impactful initiatives such as World Clean-up Day

People Matter: Development and Social Mobility

Guckenheimer promotes personal development and social mobility — for our own placemakers and the people and businesses of the communities where we and our clients live and work.

Education and Development

Training and opportunities for advancement produce skilled, creative culinarians vested in client success. We invest in people through commitments such as:

The Women in Culinary Program
Transformative initiative for attracting, supporting and developing female culinarians
DOD Skillbridge Program
Internships and potential full-time employment for former military servicemembers
English at Work training program
Language and communication courses for placemakers with limited English skills
Generation Valuable training and mentorship
Program to foster inclusive leadership and diverse management

Social Mobility

Every day, we offer a first step out of poverty and the opportunity for a brighter future. Training and development serve as the foundation for this social mobility, with our ambition personified by:

Implementation of living wages across our industry
Provision of recognized qualifications for thousands of placemakers and family members by 2025
Recognition and celebration of placemakers, helping develop workers who care about themselves and their clients

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A professional chef guides a colleague in crafting artisan pizza dough that they will cook in a wood-fired pizza oven.

Guckenheimer’s responsibility toward social mobility exceeds these ambitions, so we step up when we identify a need.

Our participation in parent ISS’ TENT Foundation pledge to hire 2,000 refugee women globally by the end of 2025, partnership with community organizations to place and train people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and implementation of Daily Pay so employees can access their compensation at their convenience are just a few recent examples of this commitment.

Fostering Healthy and Safe Environments

Safety, quality control, proactive risk management and customer well-being are our obsessions. When dining in our spaces, you’ll know we always have your back.

Food Safety
We train on safety, equipment operations and maintenance, best practices and risk avoidance. Paired with standards, processes and proper food handling and control, this diligence produces secure, sanitary, functional facilities and delicious food.
Quality Assurance
Best food, best people, best service — nothing but for our clients. We screen for quality, sustainability and compliance with wellness and food safety standards, and leverage global buying power to control costs and create value in our sourcing.
Employee Wellness
By simplifying nutrition choices, inspiring health-supportive cultures at client sites and offering healthcare credits to all our employees, we foster whole-person wellness, sustainable habits and productive workplaces.
Continuous Process Improvement
Continuous improvement defines, tailors and enhances the way we work, so our food solutions always align with your culture and goals, and feature best practices, technical know-how, and innovative thinking.