About

Workplace food has developed a reputation for being bland, mass-produced, repetitive, low-quality, and lacking freshness. Employee satisfaction has declined, resulting in decreased corporate cafeteria usage. This forces dining services to increase prices or further reduce costs by compromising food quality, leading to even lower participation rates. A significant opportunity exists for companies offering personalized catering services customized to clients' specific needs, yet traditional corporate cafeteria vendors lack the structure, flexibility, and technological orientation to address these challenges. Comcordia Solution launched the "Galaxy Bistro" brand, a Corporate Cafeteria Management Service designed to capitalize on this opportunity. We leverage AI to boost customer satisfaction by delivering unique personalized dining experiences of high quality, while simultaneously reducing costs by minimizing unsold meals and food waste.

Solution & Product

Our company uses data-driven deep learning algorithms to provide custom-made meal menus based on the specific requirements of our clients and their employees. By collecting employee preferences and feedback, we "learn" their taste and nutritional needs to build custom, personalized, yet affordable meal programs that employees and HR departments love! We predict customer choices by creating AI-generated consumer profiles, thereby minimizing unsold meals and food waste. This results in reduced food costs without sacrificing quality.

Innovation & Scalability

We managed to offer quality food services, with hyper-personalization for each individual, maximum efficiency in menu design and minimum food waste, which is a strong competitive advantage against the industry standard of “mass production” food companies. The founders gained unique expertise in healthy food production participating for 3y at the EU Research project HECTOR, (Eating Out:Habits, Determinants- Recommendations for Consumers & the EU Catering Sector) organized by of “ WHO” and the Dep. of Nutrition, Sch. of Medicine, N.U. Athens. As a management company we share this knowledge and the 10y experrienced gained using it, with our “kitchen partners” and we design, with them, unique cooking procedures and recipes. Data-driven technology is our tool for success. We are developing our own AI powered, back-office software (POS , Inventory Management, CRM - Loyalty), branded as AI-Resto, that keeps track & learns employee’s tastes - nutritional needs. Our Ai algorithms use this data to create customer archetypes, model future customer preference and predict future purchases. We design, custom and personalized meal programs that increase customer satisfaction & loyalty. By predicting behaviors we are minimizing unsold meals and we decrease operating expenses and food waste.

Traction & achievements

We have been operating in "stealth mode" while validating our model with key clients. We secured a three-year contract managing the cafeteria of a multinational company's factory in Athens and have recently begun a similar contract with a Fortune 500 tech company. These test clients were strategically chosen for their multi-location operations and diverse employee mix (factory workers, administrative staff, and senior managers). Since incorporation, we have generated turnover exceeding €700,000 with positive cash flow to date. Despite the COVID pandemic significantly affecting our sector, we leveraged our AI tools to increase efficiency in 2021, maintaining similar revenue and operational profits even when our customers were legally required to reduce office presence and customer visits decreased by 40%. We plan to remain in stealth mode until the end of 2025, as our AI-Resto software is currently in beta version with a stable release expected in Q4 2025.

Team & Why Us

- Panagiotis Zamanis CEO – CBDO: Panos is self-taught computer programmer with a BSc in Psychology and 18 years of experience in the catering sector. He received several awards and recognitions eg: 1st prize in the “Athens Start-Up Weekend” competition (2008), Bronze award, “Innovative restaurants” in Tourism Awards (2015), Best Greek Food Award (2020). - Andriana TSilichristos Food Product Development Manager: With more than 35 years of experience in the restaurant sector, she is a well recognized entrepreneur in the Hellenic leisure industry. - Maria Gardelli: Cafeteria Operations manager: Maria has a BSc in Political Science and she has been managing corporate cafeterias for almost 15 years. - Maria Karofilaki: People Manager: Maria has a MSc in human resources and more than 15 years of experience in service companies and restaurants.

Funding Needs

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