Eligibilty to FBK food services at FBK
- FBK staff as well as authorized and contracted entities may use the cafeteria service with their badge, while meals taken at the coffee shop are to be paid with the Day Buonipasto card or in cash.
- Authorized guests who are not FBK employees are not eligible for cafeteria service.
- Authorized FBK staff guests may use the cafeteria service if accompanied by an FBK staff member who will use his or her badge, swiping once for him - or herself and once for each guest and provide the cafeteria check-out operator with the guests' first name, last name and affiliation. An email will automatically be sent to the badge holder and to his or her cost center manager.
- Reservations for meals in the lounges or meeting rooms should be made through the following form https://my.fbk.eu/formbuilder/form/71.
FBK employees, collaboratorss and contracted staff will be able to access the FBK canteen together with a guest (such as a family member, spouse or acquaintance) as long as they are accompanied by the employee! To take advantage of this service, it will be sufficient to swipe one's badge twice at the cashier's desk and tell the canteen staff to enter "private guest" in the system, providing the guest's first and last name. The meal cost of €7 will be charged on the employee's pay slip in the month following the meal's use, making the payment process simple and transparent.
To make families’ lunch breaks easier, high chairs for children are available at the FBK café and canteen. You can ask the café or canteen staff for one whenever you need it.
Composition of the cafeteria meal:
Traditional line
- no. 1 first course
- n. 1 second course
- n. 1 raw or cooked side dish
- n. 1 fruit or dessert
- bread or crackers
One-dish line
- No.1 Unique dish of the day (among three sciente)
- drinks usable through dispensers in the dining room
- No. 1 fruit or dessert
- bread or crackers
It will be possible to replace the first course or second course each day with an additional side dish or an additional fruit or dessert.
Rethinking the Lunch Break at FBK
How can we make catering and lunch break services more innovative, sustainable and responsive to the diverse needs of the FBK community?
This is the question at the heart of the competitive dialogue procedure that will guide the redesign of the current canteen service.
The dialogue with the six suppliers who have expressed an interest in designing a new approach to catering at FBK will be entrusted to an internal working group, which will be set up shortly to turn needs, ideas and proposals into new solutions for the FBK lunch break.
The initiative aims to look beyond the day-to-day operation of existing services and focus on innovative and practical proposals: new ways of accessing services, initiatives to reduce waste, environmentally sustainable solutions, and services that promote well-being and a sense of community.
Particular attention will also be given to the different FBK locations, with the aim of identifying solutions that address not only the needs of those working at the Povo site, but also those based at other locations and using alternatives to the canteen service.
The aim is therefore not to collect reports or feedback on the current service, but to propose solutions, including experimental ones, that can make the services more flexible, sustainable, accessible and better suited to the diverse needs of the FBK community.
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The proposals received will be brought to the attention of the working group and may provide inspiration for exploring new services, initiatives and solutions for the future.