A well-fed workforce is a happy workforce — City Pantry raises £4M for its catering marketplace

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
City Pantry, the office catering marketplace to make it easy to order in food for staff, company events and meetings, has restocked its
over the next 18 months.Founded by Stuart Sunderland in 2013, City Pantry set out to improve the catering options open to companies in
London
Its marketplace connects local caterers to businesses who need quality food delivered to their offices or to cover events, meeting and
regular team meals.When the startup first launched, Sunderland viewed its main competitors as traditional corporate caterers, sandwich
including Google, Amazon, PayPal, Slack, Spotify and Unilever
The marketplace has on-boarded 300 popular London restaurants and caterers.This, says Sunderland, is evidence that City Pantry is
successfully bridging the gap between the type of food options consumers have become accustomed to and what is traditionally available in
This in turn is seeing employers wanting to offer more than just a good salary.Grant Paul-Florence, Head of Intermediate Capital at Octopus
has joined as CCO, and Sharon Lee (previously DHL, Elster Group, SushiDaily) has joined as COO.