Case Study: Pura Vida Miami Builds a Stronger Culture of Recognition with Speakap

Pura Vida Miami Creates a Stronger Sense of Community With Speakap

Pura Vida Miami, a fast-growing South Florida restaurant chain, needed a better way to maintain its strong culture of recognition and connection as it expanded rapidly. The company wanted to keep employees aligned across locations, avoid silos, and ensure new and existing team members stayed informed and engaged. To address these challenges, it turned to Speakap and its employee engagement app, Vida Life.

Spreakap’s Vida Life app integrated with Pura Vida Miami’s 7shifts scheduling tool and enabled targeted, real-time communication by team, role, and location. The platform also centralised feedback, discussions, recognition, and onboarding support, helping Pura Vida Miami keep employees connected during the opening of six new locations. The results included 359% user growth in 10 months, an 84% activation rate, and stronger company-wide engagement through targeted updates, contests, and public peer recognition.

Pura Vida Miami

Joelle Elias

Executive Director of Operations