{"id":16679,"date":"2021-01-04T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.karatpackaging.com\/?p=16679"},"modified":"2021-01-04T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:30:00","slug":"2020-virtual-holiday-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatpackaging.com\/blogs\/latest-news\/2020-virtual-holiday-event\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Virtual Holiday Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karat\u00ae by Lollicup<sup>TM<\/sup> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shows employee appreciation every year with a fun end of year annual event; employees, family, vendor partners and management used to gather together to eat amazing food and relish in the year past. Regretfully, the Company made the heavy decision to cancel the typical holiday event in 2020. However, it was important to management that they still show employees and vendors everything that was accomplished despite a challenging year and to give thanks for everyone\u2019s hard work so Karat\u00ae by Lollicup<sup>TM<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;put on a virtual holiday event instead!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Thursday, December 24th the Virtual Holiday Event streamed on Facebook Live on the Karat by Lollicup Facebook page. The stream highlighted the year\u2019s milestones, allowed employees to give colleagues a shout out, gave managers a chance to thank their teams and ended with a huge raffle! Raffle prizes ranged from $30 to $2,000 and were won by staff in every department.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The overall message from the event was that of valued teamwork. Karat by Lollicup was fortunate to grow in 2020, which could not have happened without the commitment of each and every employee. It is this hard work that will lead the company to continued growth into 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take an opportunity to view the event <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/x1m39tixrhc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<br>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Special thanks to the Marketing and Operations departments for putting on the event, as well as Karat<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u24c7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Lollicup\u2019s partners for sponsoring many of the prizes.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.karatpackaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BTS_Holiday-Event2-870x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"16681\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.karatpackaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BTS_Holiday-Event2.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.karatpackaging.com\/?attachment_id=16681\" class=\"wp-image-16681\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.karatpackaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BTS_Holiday-Event3-870x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"16682\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.karatpackaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BTS_Holiday-Event3.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.karatpackaging.com\/?attachment_id=16682\" class=\"wp-image-16682\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.karatpackaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BTS_Holiday-Event-870x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"16683\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.karatpackaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BTS_Holiday-Event.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.karatpackaging.com\/?attachment_id=16683\" class=\"wp-image-16683\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Behind the scenes: Live streaming the holiday event raffle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karat\u00ae by LollicupTM shows employee appreciation every year with a fun end of year annual event; employees, family, vendor partners and management used to gather together to eat amazing food and relish in the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatpackaging.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatpackaging.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatpackaging.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatpackaging.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatpackaging.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatpackaging.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatpackaging.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatpackaging.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatpackaging.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatpackaging.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}