The team’s organization of choice for the CSR report is the canteen of Laurea Leppävaara, BarLaurea. BarLaurea’s services consist of the canteen, á la carte restaurant, café as well as the catering services provided for meetings and seminars. BarLaurea is also used as a learning environment for the students of Laurea Leppävaara.
The canteen of BarLaurea serves lunch for several hundred students, ranging from around 300-700 customers every weekday. The food served in the canteen is supported by Kela, meaning that students will get a discount from the food. The canteen does not have much regular staff, excluding the chef and restaurant manager, but the employees of BarLaurea are the students of Laurea Leppävaara, who are working there as a part of their education. The same goes for the other sectors of BarLaurea, as the café, á la carte restaurant and catering services are also mostly run by students.
The á la carte restaurant, Flow, is often used by the staff of Laurea Leppävaara when hosting seminars of workshops for visitors from outside of the school. Same goes for the catering services, which often receive orders from teachers who are holding meetings and require something to serve for their guests. The café on the other hand is in everyday use by both the staff and students of Laurea Leppävaara, as it provides coffee and snacks, as well as a place to hold group meetings and a chance to socialize with others.
The team picked BarLaurea as their subject as it is an organization that everyone of the team is in contact with almost daily. The fact that all of the group members have also completed a training sequence in BarLaurea provides some insight to how the everyday work in BarLaurea is. By knowing how the grass-level work in BarLaurea is like, the team can mirror their findings about how the environmental, social and economic mindset is taken into account by the managerial level of the organization.
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