Some operations allow their employees to buy products from other vendors at a discounted price this is known as a?

• A. Discount program
• B. Employee Purchasing Plan
• C. Vendor Select
• D. Steward Sale

Answer: (D)

Staff access to discounted purchases from approved vendors is a form of employee purchasing benefit. When a hospitality operation uses the term steward sale, it names the program after the stewarding department that handles inventory and supplier relationships, signaling that employees can buy vendor products at a reduced price under that specific program. This label distinguishes it from a generic discount program or a broad employee purchasing plan, and it isn’t about choosing which vendors to work with—that’s the vendor select idea. So the term steward sale is the designation used for this staff-wide discounted purchasing from vendors.