Workplace: Providing meals to employees increases output

Apptivate Africa CEO Neil Ribeiro demonstrates how the M-kula app works. The M-kula and M-tuza apps were recently launched in Nairobi. [Wilberforce Okwiri]

In hard economic times when firms are cutting costs, provision of meals to employees, whether free or paid for, is a mirage.

While few firms have established employee cafeterias, many have not, forcing staff to carry lunch to work or depend on nearby canteens or hotels - common with industrial areas workers.