A Wichita business supports local restaurants by buying 150 employees lunch for a month
Work life is a little weird during the coronavirus pandemic, and that’s true at Wichita’s Fidelity Bank, too.
Although much of the workforce is still working from home, about 150 employees are working from the bank’s downtown headquarters. As a thank you — and as a way to support local restaurants — president and CEO Aaron Bastian has been buying all of them lunch every work day for the past month.
Even employees who work outside of the downtown headquarters and those in external markets in Kansas City, Oklahoma City and Tulsa got in on the free lunch. The bank offered those employees money on pre-loaded gift cards and encouraged them to use it at local restaurants during June.
Among the local restaurants who delivered lunch to the offices in downtown Wichita: The Kitchen, Bill’s Charcoal Grill, Two Olives, Tanya’s Soup Kitchen, Taco Rio and Prost. In all, the bank catered in from 23 restaurants.
Bastian, a big fan of local eateries, said the treat helped not only his employees but also the restaurants.
“We can sit back and hope that they survive, or we can do something about it,” he said.
The bank staff gets one more free lunch on Tuesday, when Elderslie Farm caters in.
This story was originally published June 29, 2020 at 2:19 PM.
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