ABOUT THE COMPANY:
Choco was founded in 2018 by serial tech entrepreneurs Daniel Khachab and Julian Hammer who shared a vision to reduce food waste on a global scale by digitalizing the food industry towards a more sustainable future. The company has raised a total of $171.5 million to date from investors including Left Lane Capital, Insight Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Coatue Management. Since its founding, Choco has rapidly grown its operation to serve markets in Germany, the United States, France, Spain, Austria, and Belgium. By helping streamline the global food supply chain, the company has created a more efficient and sustainable process that empowers restaurants, suppliers, and producers.
PRESS KIT
Hello,
Nowadays, we have apps for all our daily activities. On average, on our smartphones, there are about ten apps.
You might therefore think that there is an app for everything, but think again! The backstage of the hotel and restaurant industry is still not well supported in its digitalization.
Since 2018, Choco is the app that shakes up this environment by tackling a tedious task that usually falls to both the restaurateur and the supplier: order management.
The supply chain is indeed the poor relation between the internet and those forgotten by today's digital players.
Did you know that a restaurant has an average of a dozen different suppliers, at least half of which it orders from every evening after-service?
Today, each supplier has their own way of working: SMS, voice mail, email, and even fax. However, they are aware that their customers want to centralize the order process on a single channel, and if possible a digital one!
ORDERING BUT BETTER
Choco is an intuitive application that allows chefs and restaurant owners to gather all their supplier orders in one place, to delegate the placing of orders to their teams while keeping a broad overview, thanks to very intuitive collaborative features. Better visibility for better management.
On the supplier side, clear orders are received through the channel of their choice, containing all the information needed to manage the order. Choco offers a direct line to all their customers via one single system."
THE HUMAN & SUSTAINABLE REVOLUTION IN THE KITCHEN
Choco was born out of a realization: cooking must do better.
Towards its own people, towards the earth that feeds it, by sharing sustainable values focused on the well-being of everyone.
In this way, it is essential to rethink the entire supply chain, to make it transparent and more efficient to limit the loss of food, time, and the pressure it can create.
This is what led Daniel Khachab and Julian Hammer to think about this less sexy but essential aspect of the restaurant business: order management, and to bring a digital answer to this aspect of daily life.
THIS REVOLUTION IS BASED ON THREE ASPECTS: SUSTAINABILITY, PEOPLE & PROFITABILITY
Choco supports the cook and the manager by simplifying the order management and by relieving the hourly workload that this brings (approximately 3 hours per week).
REFOCUS ON THE PRODUCT AND NOT THE ADMINISTRATION
Choco does not cut off the conversation with the producer, quite the contrary. Choco takes care of the order taking and frees the conversation from any administrative burden to focus on the product and the relationship between supplier and customer.
Better still, it allows suppliers to inform customers of new arrivals and new products in record time. By taking charge of logistics, Choco further humanizes the relationship between chefs and producers.
ITS IMPACT ON FOOD WASTE
Choco offers chefs a greater awareness of what is ordered, both in terms of quantity and diversity. By highlighting each supplier's offers to chefs, Choco encourages creativity and seasonality. Moreover, by limiting ordering errors, we limit waste ipso facto.
For suppliers, with better visibility on their stocks, by facilitating communication to all their customers (one messaging system for all), they can limit their losses: promote large quantities of stock, favor products with a short shelf life...
More sales and less waste!
A TRANSPARENT ECONOMY THAT VALUES EACH ACTOR IN THE CHAIN
By limiting ordering errors, the restaurant owner limits expenses.
By offering visibility on all the orders made monthly, Choco makes it possible to become aware of the number of products that an establishment consumes regularly. This allows the restaurant owner to identify their favorite products and to better optimize their purchases.
For the supplier, it is possible to set up a more reactive commercial policy, favoring the turnover and limiting the losses (by promoting its products, managing stock better, and not wasting foodstuffs with short shelf-life). Choco favors better management, more transparency, more efficiency, and rewarding everyone.
RELIEVING YOUR TEAMS AND THE PLANET IS PRICELESS! LITERALLY
The Choco app is 100% free.
For the restaurant owner and the supplier.
You only pay for extra advantages: full integration in the ERP, localized prospecting...
THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT US BETTER THAN WE ARE
"No one can live without a smartphone, and technology has impacted every corner of the world. I took a course on smartphone food photography so I could do it myself without expensive equipment or photographers, and now it’s time to bring technology into the back of house too. With the Choco app, you can lay in bed and tap out your orders in seconds, one less thing to think about."
Olivo, Head Chef - The Daisy, New York
"Choco is great, it saved our life. We have been able to grow very fast because we were able to place orders on one app with all our vendors and that allowed us to save hours every week."
Brandon, Owner - 787 Coffee, New York
CHOCO IDENTITY CARD
Application created in 2018 by Daniel Khachab and Julian Hammer.
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CHOCO IN THE WORLD
15,000 restaurant users
10,000 partner suppliers
A team of 400 people
Press Relation
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