Metz Culinary

Hospitality operations are inherently dispersed. Metz manages over 300 catering sites across healthcare, education, airports, and corporate settings with more than 15,000 employees. When site managers are spread across the country, email threads and Drive folders don't cut it — information gets buried, documents go out of date, and the culture you've worked hard to build doesn't travel well.

The selection process was thorough and the findings were consistent — most platforms were inflexible, expensive, full of features irrelevant to an operations-heavy business, and had data and security issues Metz wasn't prepared to accept. They needed something built around how their business actually works, not a generic product they'd have to bend themselves around.

For Metz it became 'The Pantry and Supply Closet' — a named, on-brand platform with corporate news broadcasting, a robust employee directory with skill search, a searchable file repository, employee recognition, and a secure knowledge hub. CIO Cory Cochran described it as a highly flexible solution meeting all requirements around security, brand alignment, and giving general managers the resources to do their jobs.

Yes — and this is a key point. Steegle isn't just a platform provider. If a hospitality business needs custom workflows, a ticketing system, or operational tools that go beyond what a standard intranet offers, those can be built inside Google Workspace using AppSheet or Apps Script. Everything stays in the same secure Google environment.

All data stays inside Metz's own Google Workspace. Google's native permissions control access, so site managers see what they need and nothing more. There's no third-party platform handling sensitive employee or operational data. For a company managing HR records across 300-plus locations, that level of control matters enormously.

Alexis Kropp, Senior Marketing Manager at Metz, described it as enjoyable and seamless. The team was consistently responsive, answered questions promptly, and offered strategic advice throughout — not just technical setup support. That relationship continued after launch.

With 15,000 employees across hundreds of sites, the volume of operational content is significant. AI tools like Gemini can help staff find policies, procedures, and resources faster — but only if that content is clean and well-structured. Steegle.One provides the curated foundation that makes AI-assisted search genuinely useful.