FEED HUB & SPOKE: Food & Essentials E-Delivery with High-street Hubs

FEED HUB & SPOKE项目引入了一种创新的方法，结合了：* Cloud Kitchen * Coworking Spaces* Food & Parcel Combined Queries * Connected and Autonomous Vehicles（CAV）and Drones* Zero-Carbon Deliveries **HUB** 将通过将苦苦挣扎的餐馆转变为新的商业模式来振兴商业街。目前，餐馆提供一种菜肴（如希腊菜），这是在后面（厨房）准备和服务在前面。这是一个高开销的提议，灵活性有限，依赖于快速的客户流动率和人均支出。在HUB模式中，背面被转换为共享厨房空间，多个供应商可以在这里工作，并由云厨房网络提供支持，以提供更多的食物种类。前面被转换成共同工作空间，提高了空间利用率，可以在那里消费食物（从这个HUB或相关的云厨房）。这将支持新的分散劳动力和初创企业提高生产力，同时提供全天收入（不仅是午餐和晚餐）。所需的操作人员最少，从而降低了成本。**SPOKE** 是一个紧凑的取货和订购亭，具有集成的支付方式。SPOKE非常适合商业园、科技园甚至公共场所，它可以将食品和货物交付聚合在一起，打破了目前快递员单独交付每个订单的模式，这种模式会导致拥堵并增加成本。SPOKEs将使任何共享空间都能变成一个用餐区，目前这种模式只在靠近餐馆的市中心尝试。SPOKE将在一个创新网络中连接到HUB，该网络旨在实现流量优化（例如降低成本、时间、污染排放），通过整合货物、利益相关者之间的合作以及使用创新工具和交付系统。这些将得到以下支持：1）** AirB 2B平台 **：是一个平台，可以轻松租赁专业空间，如共同工作空间，云厨房空间或会议室。这将使餐馆、大学、社区中心等能够共享他们的厨房空间，用户可以预订HUB联合工作空间。食品供应商将进行尽职调查，并能够通过现有的FEED应用程序提供HUB，SPOKE或直接交付给消费者。我们还将与其他共同工作空间，会议室或工作室供应商联系作为下一步。AirB 2B平台旨在利用商业空间的闲置容量，减少远程工作和新业务的障碍。2）** 零碳车队 **：在我们的运营中，我们已经通过电动自行车和电动货运自行车以及无人机交付试验（VLOS）的组合提供食品和必需品。我们将探索CAV的可行性并扩展我们的无人机分析3）**FEED B2C平台（现有）** 供客户在中心或家中订购。这个雄心勃勃的多方面项目将是AirB 2B平台的试点，与设计咨询公司40 Two合作开发，在牛津的一个商业园区进行SPOKE，试用和评估CAV热食品交付（在RACE，卡勒姆），并最终推出一个HUB，在牛津或伦敦测试和验证该模型。

The FEED HUB & SPOKE project introduces an innovating approach combining:* Cloud Kitchens* Coworking Spaces* Food & Parcel Combined Deliveries* Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) and Drones* Zero-Carbon DeliveriesThe **HUB** will revitalise the high street by converting struggling restaurants into a new commercial model. Currently, restaurants are serving one cuisine (eg Greek), which is being prepared at the back (kitchen) and served at the front. This is a high-overhead proposition, with limited flexibility relying on rapid customer turnover with significant spend per head. In the HUB model, the back is converted into a shared kitchen space where multiple vendors can work and is supported by a network of cloud kitchens for greater food variety. The front is converted into co-working spaces, increasing space utilisation, where food can be consumed (from this HUB or associated cloud kitchens). This will support the new decentralised workforce and start-ups to be productive while providing income throughout the day (not only at lunch&dinner). The operational staff required is minimal, thus reducing costs.The **SPOKE** is a compact pickup and ordering kiosk with an integrated payment method. Ideal for business parks, science parks or even public places, the SPOKE allows food and freight deliveries to be aggregated, disrupting the current model where couriers deliver each order separately, which causes congestion and increases costs. SPOKEs will enable any shared space to be transformed into an eating area, a model currently tried in city centres only when adjacent to restaurants. SPOKEs will be connected to HUBs in an innovative network that will be designed to enable the optimisation of flows (e.g. reduced costs, times, polluting emissions) through consolidation of goods, collaboration among stakeholders, and the use of innovative tools and delivery systems.These will be supported by:1) **AirB2B platform**: is a platform to enable easy renting of professional spaces, such as co-working spaces, cloud kitchen spaces or meeting rooms. This will enable restaurants, colleges, community centres etc to share their kitchen space and users to book HUB co-working space. Food vendors will undergo due-diligence and be able to supply HUBs, SPOKEs or direct to consumer delivery via the existing FEED app. We will also liaise with other co-working space, meeting room or studio providers as the next step. The AirB2B platform aims to enable access to the spare capacity of commercial spaces and reduce the barriers to remote working and new business.2) **Zero-Carbon Fleet**: in our operations, we already deliver food & essentials through a combination of EV and e-cargo bikes, and drone delivery trials (VLOS). We will explore the feasibility of CAVs and expand our drone analysis3) **FEED B2C platform (existing)** for customers to order in HUBs or home.This ambitious multi-faceted project will a pilot of the AirB2B platform, developed in collaboration with a Design Consultancy 40Two, a SPOKE in one business Park in Oxford, Trial and evaluation of a CAV hot food delivery (at RACE, Culham) and finally launch a HUB to test and validate the model in Oxford or London.