Hi Everyone.
It is part of my daily mission at Upper Midwest Gourmet to find ways to:
a: Be a greener company (improve our environmental impact on the earth)
b: Lower operating costs to help offset price increases
c: Improve quality of life for staff
I came across an article in this weekends Minneapolis Star and Tribune that addresses all of these issues through the conversion to a 4 day work week. If you paste the following link into your browser you can read about how this change can work to benefit a company like ours and in turn help us to benefit your company as well. The link:
http://www.startribune.com/local/28333109.html
I’m looking for feedback from all our customers as to what you would think of this change? We would adjust our hours to be open Monday – Thursday from 7:30 am to 5 pm (currently M-F 9am-4pm). We would be consolidating the Tuesday and Friday Van routes to both take place on Tuesday. This should save us money on: fuel, labor and utilities while giving our staff the ability to enjoy more time with their families on the weekend. While price increases are still unavoidable, this may be able to help offset the significance of some of the increases we’re seeing on the horizon.
If there is no uproar from our customers I’d consider implementing this change, on a trial basis, some time in October? If it turned out that it was causing customers problems and we did not see any benefits to the change we could always change back to our traditional 5 day work week.
I’d really appreciate any feedback you may have so I have set up an online poll. Please take a moment to check whether you’d be for or against this change.
Thanks in advance for your business, all of us here at Upper Midwest Gourmet appreciate it very much.
Cheers,
David Chall
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