Meaningful recognition
A restaurant, café or other local experience can feel more personal than a generic reward.
For local employers
Turn your employees’ collective buying power into more valuable rewards.
Make the employee-recognition dollars you’re already spending work harder. Savortown connects employers with quality local merchants offering Full-Value Gifts and, through the Promotional Program, additional gift value for the opportunity to earn employees as tomorrow’s regular customers.
Explore an employer pilot
Why participate
A local gift with a personal feel.
Your workforce represents significant future purchasing power. Savortown brings it together through meaningful local gifts. Promotional Gifts can give your existing rewards budget additional value while merchants invest in winning new customers. The employer’s merchant selection and gift delivery experience will be tested in a pilot.
Greater reward value
With Promotional Gifts, a merchant provides additional gift value beyond what the employer pays; actual offers would vary.
Simple delivery
Digital gifts could be assigned and shared by email or text without requiring a recipient app.
Local impact
Employer spending supports participating independent businesses nearby.
Selection and relevance
Employers choose participating merchants whose experiences their team might value.
Clear presentation
The employee receives the full gift value and the employer’s message, with no public coupon framing.
Full-Value Gifts: The employer pays the gift’s full value.
Promotional Gifts: The merchant provides additional gift value as an investment in earning new customers.
An illustrative reward
Recognition that helps people discover local businesses.
A Sarasota employer could choose a participating local merchant and purchase its gift certificates for the team. Each employee receives a gift to that merchant; the business has a chance to welcome new nearby guests.
This is a proposed journey, not a current offer. Merchant participation, delivery, terms and the purchase process remain to be established.
Pilot question
Would employers use this to recognize their teams?
An initial pilot should test which local gifts employers select, what purchase and distribution process works, and whether they choose to repeat.
Discuss employer participationHelp shape local employee recognition.
Selected Founding Employers can share what rewards they actually buy and what would make a local experience useful.
Founding Employer program