Foodchain wholesale to consumer delivery

食品链批发到消费者交付

• 批准号: 66360
• 金额: $ 9.53万
• 依托单位: FOODCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=66360
• 关键词: Foodchain; wholesale; consumer; delivery

Before the crisis our food supply platform connected restaurants directly to independent British food suppliers. Overnight the hospitality industry shut down when lockdown was imposed, putting millions of jobs at risk and thousands of foodservice businesses facing ongoing costs with no opportunity for income.At the same time, people in isolation were struggling to get food delivered. Supermarkets have failed to adapt quickly enough in meeting the increased demand required for home delivery, and 3 weeks in people still cannot book delivery slots for weeks in advance, and it is very difficult to maintain social distancing whilst shopping in store.With lockdown being extended for 3 more weeks minimum and social distancing to last for several more months, this problem is not going away. The best approach is to enable accessible, affordable home delivery so people can stay in isolation and remove anxieties around accessing food as well as provide councils to fund food supplies for those who cannot afford it.Our platform responded to the COVID19 crisis by switching to consumer delivery within one week of lockdown. People across the UK have been able to order their whole food shop, directly from independent suppliers for home delivery. This has provided a much needed lifeline to independent British businesses that would have otherwise struggled to survive.Since launching, our suppliers have been able to hire back their staff as well creating more jobs for picking and packing staff and delivery drivers. 90% of the sales go straight into the food suppliers' pocket. We can provide them with the tools to be able to take orders, manage payment, coordinate deliveries and access customers nationwide.Now more than ever, consumers want to support local SMBs and Foodchain makes this easy.We will invest in two key areas:* Working with local authorities to give the vulnerable in their communities access to home delivery. Councils will use the profits from this service, to fund food supply for low income households in their borough.* Nationwide scale-up: building out national and regional infrastructure to enable suppliers to deliver to homes nationally during, and after the crisis, providing a reliable secondary revenue stream whilst restaurants recover, and creating more jobs as the consumer market is significantly largerWith the Extension for Impact funding, we now want to supercharge the above efforts, with a particular focus on accessibility for household consumers and enabling greater financial options for our b2b network of restaurants and suppliers who have been severely impacted by COVID-19.This project will save jobs and businesses in the hospitality industry, with an innovative way for the general public to get British food delivered directly from suppliers.

在危机之前，我们的食品供应平台将餐厅直接连接到独立的英国食品供应商。一夜之间，由于实行封锁，酒店业关闭，数百万工作岗位处于危险之中，数千家餐饮服务企业面临持续成本，没有机会获得收入。与此同时，与世隔绝的人们难以获得外卖。超市未能足够快地适应日益增长的送货上门需求，3周后的人们仍然无法提前几周预订送货时段，在商店购物时很难保持社交距离。随着封锁时间延长至少3周，社交距离持续几个月，这个问题不会消失。最好的方法是让人们能够获得、负担得起的送货上门服务，这样人们就可以与世隔绝，消除对获得食物的担忧，并提供议会为那些负担不起的人提供食物供应资金。我们的平台对CoVID19危机的回应是在封锁一周内转向消费者送货。英国各地的人们已经可以直接从独立供应商那里订购整个食品店，然后送货上门。这为独立的英国企业提供了一条亟需的生命线，否则这些企业将难以生存。自推出以来，我们的供应商已经能够重新雇用他们的员工，并为挑选和包装员工以及送货司机创造了更多的就业机会。90%的销售额直接进入了食品供应商的口袋。我们可以为他们提供能够接受订单、管理付款、协调送货和接触全国客户的工具。现在，消费者比以往任何时候都更希望支持当地的中小企业，而FoodChain使这一点变得容易。我们将在两个关键领域进行投资：*与地方当局合作，让社区中的弱势群体能够获得送货上门的机会。议会将利用这项服务的利润，为其辖区内低收入家庭的食品供应提供资金。*全国范围内的扩大：在危机期间和之后，建设国家和地区基础设施，使供应商能够将货物送到全国各地的家庭，在餐厅恢复的同时提供可靠的二次收入来源，并随着消费市场的显著扩大而创造更多就业机会。随着Impact资金的延长，我们现在希望加强上述努力，特别关注家庭消费者的可及性，并为受到COVID-19严重影响的餐厅和供应商的B2B网络提供更多的财务选择。该项目将挽救酒店业的就业和企业，为普通公众提供了一种创新的方式，直接从供应商那里获得英国食品。