Hungry For Talks
In a post lockdown context, many companies have adopted a hybrid “work from home/work from office” approach which generates confusion on who is at the office when. While employees have a craving need to reconnect with their colleagues and get to know the newbies, they have a hard time organizing informal meetings around, a coffee or lunch.
Context
Food & beverage have always been social catalyzers. What is best to get to know someone outside a formal meeting than sharing a delicious meal or a coffee?
More and more, we love sharing a meal but not any meal. Eating healthy and sustainable is becoming a priority for employees and well-being a CSR focus for corporations.
With that in mind, we asked ourselves how to make it easy, healthy, and sustainable for employees to reconnect around food & beverage at work?


Approach developed during the ideation phase
Hungry for Talks unites a food supplier (ZENTIS) with a fresh sustainable food restaurant (FOOD MAKER), a startup providing self-service fridges (MEALTY) and a startup providing self-service frozen soup and smoothies.
By bringing this consortium together, Food for Talks capitalizes on the expertise and knowledge of each of those parties to test whether employees’ well-being at work increases when they are offered a solution to reconnect, effortlessly, around healthy and sustainable food.
Objectives tested during the PoC phase
1. Making effortless to schedule informal meetings at the office
Employees see in a fraction of a second who is at the office, available just when they are and interested to connect for an informal food & beverage moment between colleagues.
2. Making it affordable to offer healthy & sustainable food corner
Setting up a healthy and sustainable food corner is competitive to their current food offering to employees considering the required cost.
3. Validating employees’ gratefulness to reconnect effortlessly around food
Team
Laurent Pirson
Co-Founder & CEO of Mealty