What We Do
Astoria Culinary Expert Services focuses on optimizing catering operations and elevating cuisine to match the clientele’s requirements. The following are the current services that we offer to large-scale companies wanting a deluxe dining experience:
Cafeteria, Food Hall, and Employee Dining
Catering and Banquet Services
ACES Customization Services
Cafeteria, Food Hall, and Employee Dining
All-time Food Favorites
ACES can offer to whip up your staff’s favorite foods in a monthly meal rotation, or you may choose from Astoria’s crowd-favorite food products like Astoria Gourmet Takeaways. For premium executive lounges, you may opt to include dishes from our award-winning Japanese restaurant, Minami Saki. Our Food & Beverage team will gladly send you menus for you to browse and choose from.
Specialty Food Kiosks
Our team is capable of customizing white-label food kiosks with specialty cuisines that clients prefer to see in their food halls. From Chinese dim sum to traditional Filipino offerings, we can create standalone stalls that give your employees a plethora of cuisines to choose from. If you prefer for your employees to pay for their snacks and meals, the stalls can be equipped with cash-based or cashless POS systems for easy check-out.
Work Café & Pantry
Employees’ happiness and high retention rates equate to an employer’s success. Our ACES team is ready to work with you to introduce complimentary work cafés or pantries that contain excellent quality coffee, healthy snacks and energy-boosting drinks, which go a long way to shoring up employee satisfaction.
Catering and Banquet Services
ACES’ cocktail services offer sumptuous hors d’oeuvres for high-level board meetings or client power meetings. Our team may provide waitstaff for pass around service for conferences with large crowds. Alternatively, we can create a bountiful spread served elegantly on a buffet table for self-service during closed-door private meetings.
Boardroom Meeting
Our ACES team can create themed menus for your boardroom sessions with delicious dishes cooked using premium ingredients and served on elegant dinnerware with eye-catching plating. The bespoke corporate dining experience is sure to impress your board of directors and host of C-suite executives during strategic meetings and board reviews.
Buffet and Banquet Services
The ACES Buffet and Banquet services offer a multitude of colorful and categorized dishes that are served using structured risers at various heights, creating a luxurious feel to the buffet experience. Expect excellent and consistent standards of quality for large-scale banquet and buffet services, where each dish will be carefully composed and cooked to perfection.
Banquet in a Box & Bespoke Bento Boxes
This highly customized offering can give clients the freedom to choose from our award-winning Minami Saki menu and Banquet in a Box offerings. Clients can choose from a selection of bento boxes complete with appetizer, main course, dessert and drinks, all elegantly plated in one exquisitely designed Japanese lacquer box or our Astoria branded luxe banquet in a box gourmet takeaway package.
ACES Customization Services
As a food service solutions provider, we prioritize our clients’ needs and wants. With this, we further offer personalized services according to our clients’ budgets and preferred food concepts, cuisines and menus, as determined by your employee demographics and site analysis.
We always make sure to offer the ideal cuisine options that will effectively meet the tastes of the client base. Whether the clients wish to cover full course meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner or create a one-stop snack and dessert kiosk, our creative food experts are ready to deliver the best solutions for your culinary requirements.
Get Your Office Food Trend On!
Here at ACES, our main goal is to help support your employees by inquiring about their dietary restrictions and preferences. This way, everyone will be able to benefit from what you’re offering. The question is, are you prepared to offer meals to your staff as a perk? Try one of these ways to treat your employees:
Catered meals
Serving catered meals to your employees on a regular basis, once per month, or on special occasions is a surefire method to show them you care. Food usually brings people together.
Breakfast bar
The belief that breakfast is the most significant meal of the day is widely held. As breakfast is the most important meal of the day, research points to its value for performance and health. By offering a nutritious breakfast alternative, such as a cereal or yogurt bar packed with fresh toppings, you may incentivize your staff to refuel before work.
Office happy hours
Offer happy hours with tastings of premium beers and wines if you want your workers to like their time at work so much that they hang out on Friday nights after work to socialize and build strong team bonds. A unique sense of camaraderie may develop among staff members who unwind and raise a glass together. Make sure to provide non-drinkers with a seltzer option.
We are more than just your company’s caterer. It is our mission to provide your employees with nutritional food options for them to get healthy and focused on completing their work. Our experience in the industry is built upon the foundation of extensive research and development to produce our menu and deploy on site tools.
Employers Pay a High Price for Poor Nutrition
The annual medical costs for obese people are, on average, $1,429 to $2,741 higher than for people of a healthy weight. This is due to the direct medical costs of obesity, which include health care services, medical tests and drugs to treat obesity-related diseases. Nutrition also influences worker productivity.
Healthy eating habits are essential for maintaining productivity in the workplace. According to a recent study from Corporate Wellness magazine, poor dietary habits are linked to a 66% increased risk of productivity loss. This means that total health-related employee productivity loss accounts for a significant portion of all productivity loss and costs employers more money than annual health care expenses.
Unhealthy eating habits can have a negative impact on productivity in the workplace. Employers should encourage their employees to maintain healthy diets to improve productivity and reduce costs.
Food for thought: The USDA reports that healthier diets could save at least $7 billion in medical costs, productivity, and lives each year!
Boost Employee Health with Better Nutrition
The average person only consumes 1.8 cups of fruit and vegetables per day. This is far below the recommended daily intake and can lead to health problems.
Corporate Wellness magazine has reported that adults should consume 1.5 to 2 cups of fruit and 2 to 3 cups of vegetables each day, depending on age, gender, and physical activity level. Individuals who do not meet these recommendations are at increased risk for developing chronic health conditions, which can result in high annual medical costs. For example, an adult at high risk for low fruit and vegetable intake may incur medical yearly costs of $656.
Partnering with ACES will give employers the chance to combat rising health care costs and boost employee productivity when nutrition programs are part of an employer’s culture of health.
HOW DO WELLNESS PROGRAMS INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY IN THE WORKPLACE IN 2022?
Presenteeism, a form of low employee productivity, is the practice of showing up for work but not actually contributing. Fortunately, company productivity and employee happiness can both be improved through wellness programs that can be provided by ACES.
Employees with a bad diet are 66% more likely to have high presenteeism than those who frequently ate whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. This is in addition to the higher presenteeism among smokers. For instance, smokers were 28% more likely than non-smokers to have high presenteeism. This figure illustrates how three health behaviors increase the chance of excessive presenteeism among employees.
These workers’ presenteeism ratings ranged widely. Employees having a presenteeism score in the top 20 percent were therefore deemed to have strong presenteeism in order to aid in the detection of trends. To comprehend how employee health behavior was connected to high presenteeism, numerous comparisons were made. These comparisons demonstrate how taking part in a wellness program can increase productivity at work and clarify the connections between employee health and presenteeism.
In addition to this, there are a variety of health difficulties that contribute to the presenteeism problem; risk factors, chronic pain, and chronic illnesses, notably chronic depression, considerably enhance the likelihood of low productivity.
A Fresh Perspective to Employee Retention - Healthy Food!
According to various research such as the Center of American Progress, Retention is still a major worry even if you’re not hiring more people, especially if you work in a field with lots of open positions. Finding and keeping outstanding people is crucial in the current corporate environment to increase efficiency and improve continued levels of success.
It is essential to create work environments that people want to join and stay in for sectors that deal with intense competition or a shortage of talented personnel. An atmosphere that empowers, motivates, and enhances employees’ work experiences must be deliberately invested in by businesses, because the average employee works more than 40 hours each week. An area where employee engagement can be significantly impacted is employee incentives.
Modern office productivity is evolving quickly in every aspect. Modern employees’ behaviors and traits are evolving along with the nature of work. Organizations are consequently under constant pressure to improve both their workspaces and the employee experience. The figures included here give a broad picture of the level of workplace productivity among employees.
It's official: happy employees mean healthy firms!
Who wouldn’t want their staff to be relaxed and well-rested? According to Doordash for Work, 2022 – eating the right food can empower your brain in producing hormones that improve sleep, lessen anxiety, and increase emotions of calm.
Focusing on improving employee morale through food is beneficial for both your business and your staff. It goes without saying that a crew that is well-fed will not only create more successful and innovative projects, but also take more pleasure in their work. Food is a vital source of energy for both your body and mind, and your brain regulates your mood.
Health Empowerment at Work
The energy and nutrient intake of employees are a vital part of a company’s development. According to the 2013 Philippines National Nutrition (PNN) Survey, the average daily intake of Filipino worker is 1768 kcal/day, lower than the Estimated Energy Requirement (EER) which is 2397 kcal per day.
A Filipino worker’s average diet is composed of refined sugars, fats and oils, and processed meat products. All are sources of non-nutrient-dense food which can lead to either malnutrition or obesity. The Food and Nutrition Research Institute – Department of Science and Technology (FNRI-DOST) encourages Filipino adults to have a proper diet with the help of the daily nutritional guide for adults. Compare the difference between the nutritional guide with the “Top 10 Most Consumed Food and Percentage Consumption” of Filipino workers from the 2013 Philippines National Nutrition Survey.
Awareness, engagement, and support are needed to facilitate health promotion. It is said in the 2013 PNN Survey that lack of access to healthy food is the main barrier to a proper diet. ACES addresses this by providing quality healthy food choices in the workplace canteen, comprehensive meal information, and a supportive nutrition environment.
New Normal
The ACES team strictly adheres to COVID-19 protocols as mandated by the Department of Health. We are also ready to adhere to your company’s health policies and will coordinate with your company’s nurses or doctors in terms of implementing health and safety regulations.
On site, we require our team to wear face masks and gloves. All staff, from our chefs to our drivers, also undergo regular testing conducted by medical professionals. We sanitize our kitchen facilities and equipment thoroughly using UV disinfecting machines, ozonizers, air purifying systems and other state-of-the-art medical-grade equipment.
Executive Breakfast
Executive Lunch
Healthy Bowls
Regular Breakfast
