 
The Lunch Bunch was the brainchild of its founder Pete Beedham and it opened for business in March 2010.
After years of working in the software business as a Systems Engineer,
and an Operations Manager, Pete decided that in such a high tech environment,
the process of getting lunch organized for office workers was about as low tech
as it could be. Time and again he watched in amazement as his staff fumbled around with takeout menus, and the disorganized
efforts of secretaries and receptionists trying to make sense of scraps of paper and counting loose change as they all tried to
get a lunch order together.
He observed:
- Employees tried to get a group of people to agree on a restaurant and to place an order so that they could avoid the delivery charge by exceeding the order minimum or so that they could at least share the delivery charge between them.
- The ordering was usually done by one person who often spent 30 minutes or more trying to write down the order requests from other staff. Someone would then read the hand written scrap of paper over the phone to someone at the restaurant who would then write it down on their own scrap of paper.
- Once the order was phoned through, someone would then be assigned to collect cash, give change, agree delivery tips etc. and the pile of cash would then be left with someone at the font desk or reception to pay the delivery person. Sometimes this step would be forgotten and as the pizza guy waited at the front desk, a mad scramble would ensue as people frantically tried to gather the money that was owed.
- When the food finally arrived, many times he would hear groans and shouts like “Nooooo, those guys put mayo on my sandwich again!”, or “Darn it, I asked for no olives on my salad”, or “How difficult is it to put dressing on the side? ##$#$^!!*&!!”.
But it really is no suprise when an order with all its special requests has gone from one person to another, to a scrap of paper, to another person, to another scrap of paper? It’s not hard to see how errors can quite easily be made.
For years he watched and waited, thinking that the popularity of the internet surely would give rise to a solution to this obvious problem.
But it didn’t, so finally Pete teamed up with his wife Donna and together they created The Lunch Bunch.
Pete brought the expertise of software systems and web site development to create The Lunch Bunch web site and automated systems.
Donna was involved in the restaurant trade from a very
early age, starting by waiting tables at her Nan’s restaurant in Canterbury in England, and later on helping her Dad at his bakery in
Hertfordshire in England, so she was the perfect candidate for running the automated kitchen facility.
|
|
Today, The Lunch Bunch operates in Manchester, NH and each day new companies sign up when their workers realize that The Lunch Bunch really is “the way lunch should be”.
|
|