How Veeva gets its hybrid team into the office
- twice a week, every week.
For remote-first companies, the office has to make a compelling case to get people through the door.
Food is one of the most powerful ways to bring a team together and for Veeva, finding the right corporate office catering in London turned out to be the answer.
arch's particular combination of sustainability, reliability, health and fresh flavour made them the natural partner: one that fuels the team and gives them a real reason to show up.
The Challenge: Making the office worth the commute
Veeva Systems is a global software company serving the life sciences industry. Like many modern businesses, they operate as a remote-first organisation. For them, the office was never the default workspace. To make hybrid working work, they needed to offer something that made the commute genuinely worthwhile with healthy office catering.
When Alex reached out, he had a clear vision: to engage the London team in a new way. To create Veeva Lunch two days a week and build collaboration, communication and a moment of real excitement into the middle of the working day.
"Food is a big draw for people," Alex explains. "Having good food brings people in regularly. We use Veeva Lunch as a way for people to interact with their colleagues, step away from the desk and have a break. Feeding people in the right way is very important."
For companies navigating hybrid working, office lunch catering has moved from a nice-to-have to a strategic tool, one that supports team culture, wellbeing and attendance all at once. The question was finding the right corporate catering supplier and partner to deliver on it.
“arch will completely blow your expectations out of the water. You can trust that they will have things handled and that they will deliver week after week. ”
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Finding arch: chosen over the competition
Alex found arch through an online search for corporate catering suppliers in London. After speaking with the team in depth about what he was looking for, arch took part in a trial run against a competing business. The results spoke for themselves. In his words, "arch just blew them out of the water."
What made arch stand out went beyond the food. It was the attention to detail, the care of the team, and a genuine commitment to sustainable catering that runs through every part of how arch operates.
Alex put it simply: "Arch is a great sustainable company from the way that they deliver the food to the way they think about the menus, there is sustainability throughout the process. Creating a healthy menu is also quite important for us to make sure that our teams are fuelled in the right way, and arch provided that."
What the service looks like week to week
Veeva receives on-site lunch catering from arch twice a week, every Tuesday and Thursday. arch handles everything: food delivery, equipment, set up, full lunch service and clear-down. The Veeva team does not have to lift a finger.
The menus rotate constantly, drawing on seasonal produce and sustainably sourced meat and fish. Dessert has become something of a talking point in the office, and one of the team's genuine highlights. On special occasions arch brings something extra too. Pancake Day being a recent example. "Having those treats and options really helps make the office an engaging place," Alex notes.
It shows in how the team talk about the food. "Tasty, healthy and colourful" is how one team member put it. Another called it "filling, satisfying and very delicious." Alex's personal highlight? The pork kra pow, and the desserts every single week.
A partner you can trust completely
For any office manager sourcing corporate catering in London, reliability is everything. The best food in the world doesn't count for much if the service is inconsistent or high-maintenance to manage. This is where arch has earned the most trust with Veeva.
"Something that I was really looking for was mainly the ability to sit in the background while the caterers do their thing," Alex explains. "Being able to trust in arch to do our lunches without having to get involved has been great. They're a great partner to work with."
Behind the scenes, Alex works closely with Ellie at arch who has consistently gone above and beyond, including responding to last-minute requests. "They've become a partner that I can rely on when I need to."
The result: Engaging the team with good food, sustainably.
When asked what working with arch means for Veeva, Alex's answer gets to the heart of it: "It means energising our team in a healthy and sustainable way."
Those words speak to something the best on-site lunch catering does for the modern workplace. People want food that keeps them full, brings a moment of joy into the working day and gives them a reason to step away from the desk and gather as a team.
For Veeva, the twice-weekly lunches have done exactly that. They have brought the team together, created a real sense of engagement in the office and struck that balance between good nutrition and the genuine pleasure of eating well. As one team member put it: "I just enjoy it a lot and I feel I mostly eat better when I'm here than when I'm at home, just because it's more varied."