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Foodles

Office catering

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101-200 employees
  • Hospitality
  • Retail
  • B2B
  • Sustainability
  • Food
Clichy, France

Company mission

To become the European leader for new generation B2B cafeterias.

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42% female employees

95% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

The French office catering company Foodles launched its first foray into the UK market recently, and it looks set to provide an appealing catering compromise between logistically complex office canteens and sandwiches delivered to the desk. Instead, Foodles furnishes companies with smart fridges, which are restocked daily with cheap meals freshly prepared by local chefs.

The company is targeting SMEs, which brings them a number of strategic benefits. For one, businesses this scale are under pressure to offer perks that are competitive with enterprise employers, but on a smaller budget. Additionally, it allows Foodles to focus on offering quality of food over quantity, and implement practices like distributing reusable packaging and distributing unused food to local organisations. Offering actionable solutions to the issue of food and container waste that’s attracting greater concern in Foodle’s new UK market is likely to play well with customers.

Another feather in Foodle’s cap is its commitment to employing all those who prepare and deliver food on permanent contracts. These kinds of ethical business practices are becoming more than nice-to-haves: companies are under growing pressure from both CSR commitments and an increasingly values-oriented workforce to seek out good business partners. So Foodles could strike a strong note in the UK.

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Benefits

  • Teleworking: Employees - whose roles allow it - can choose to work remotely up to 4 days a week
  • Mobility: Whatever your mode of transport, Foodles subsidises part of it: public transport 🚊; individual transport (car 🚙, two-wheelers 🛵 🏍, bike 🚲, scooter 🛴); electric bike for only 15€/month (partnership with Starbolt)
  • Works council: We use Leeto, the works council advantage card, to provide a monthly subsidy for each employee for the reimbursement of your social, cultural or sports activities, as well as numerous discounts (cinemas🎬, theme parks🎡, sport🧘...)
  • Sport: We have a partnership with the fitness room 🏋️🏃 Orange Bleue, 100m from the Clichy office. Registration fee 30€ ( instead of 80€), and employees can access all OB gyms in France, as well as individual coaching. Monthly subscription at 27,99€ (instead of 29,99€).
  • Subsidised lunches: Last but not least, we offer our employees diiscounted rates on Foodles products 🍲🍱🍝to eat when you are at the office: 0,90€ for a main, 0,40€ for starters / desserts
  • Mutual and health: Foodles takes care of 50% of your mutual Alan insurance 🏥. Plus, through our partnership with Qare, you have free access to video medical consultations, available 7 days a week and with doctors from over 30 different specialities 👩⚕️👨🏻⚕️🩺

Company values

  • TEAMWORK: Team spirit, altruism, empathy and solidarity - within one's own team, but also with others. A strong value combining human and professional qualities in a caring and friendly environment where everyone benefits from each other to meet common challenges
  • TRANSPARENCY: Sharing the same vision, clear objectives, trusting each other, being authentic and moving together in the same direction. To be part of a continuous improvement process and to constantly reinforce our feedback culture
  • COMMITMENT: Joining an organisation that has a positive impact on society and the environment, actively contributing to the ecological transition of our sector of activity, getting involved and showing ownership on a daily basis, gaining autonomy and responsibility. To commit to a QWL approach with the aim of achieving an ever better work/life balance

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Sep 2021

$32.6m

SERIES B

Jun 2019

$10m

SERIES A

Total funding: $45.3m

Leadership

A venture developer with Wrapp, before working on accounts at Webhelp and then co-founding Capitaine Pizza. Also a teacher/lecturer at ESSEC Business School and Epitech.

An administrator at Réseau Entreprendre, before moving on to work as an associate with Time for the Planet.

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