Choco
Supplier ordering app connecting restaurants and wholesalers
Choco is a Berlin-based ordering platform that lets restaurants send orders to all their suppliers from one app instead of phone calls, texts and emails, while suppliers digitise incoming orders with AI. It is free for restaurants and monetised on the supplier side. Founded in 2018, it reached a $1.2B valuation in 2022 and operates in Europe and the US.
Our reading. Best for independent restaurants in Germany, France, Spain or Austria whose wholesalers are already on the platform and who want to replace phone and WhatsApp orders at zero cost.
Strengths
- Free for restaurants and quick to adopt
- Large network of onboarded suppliers in Germany, France, Spain, Austria and the US
- AI order processing on the supplier side reduces errors
Limits
- Not a full inventory or recipe-costing system
- Value depends on your suppliers being on the platform
Unicorn since 2022 ($1.2B valuation), $274.7M raised, tens of thousands of restaurants ordering through the app
Founded by Daniel Khachab and Julian Hammer; Germany's foodtech unicorn of 2022
- https://tech.eu/2022/04/12/choco-chalks-up-111-million-punches-ticket-at-the-unicorn-club/
- https://choco.com/us/pricing