Commercial-stage FoodTech startup with extremely competitive and innovative supply & value chain models in the massive, dinosaur catering market.
*PROBLEM*
All food-related businesses need to deal with physical supply-chain assets, which are hard and expensive to scale and also have an immense negative impact on the value propositions towards buyers. Specifically for catering buyers, this results in keeping them trapped in a captive market with uniform and interchangeable offerings within a single supplier and across suppliers.
*SOLUTION*
Gastronaut is a catering company with a radical business model that scales physical assets with the same ease, speed and cost as scaling software, while also improving the value chain. Specifically, we develop and coordinate a proprietary network of independent cloud kitchens (fundamentally different from other dark-kitchen models) to produce a complex catering service for a single buyer, and a single cloud kitchen to produce simultaneously for multiple buyers.
Gastronaut's model allows for:
- 9x higher margins than any caterer,
- 2,5x higher margins than food-mediating/aggregating platforms,
- in the consumer-facing food market with the highest AOV (catering)
- while offering buyers the only award-winning and premium experience at mid-range prices.
*POSITIVE IMPACT*
Gastronaut partners only with talented immigrant chefs who bring specialised craftsmanship and sophisticated flavours exclusively from their home countries. This enables us to create jobs, integration opportunities and economic sustainability for immigrants to achieve breadth and depth of impact. This CSR credit is fully transferable to our clients without them paying or doing anything extra. Last, but not least, in this male-dominated industry 80% of Gastronaut chefs are women.