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Office food delivery platform, Just Eat for Business, has expanded its partnership with sustainable packaging business, CLUBZERØ to offer a reusable packaging service.
As part of CLUBZERØ’s commitment to make London a zero waste city, the offering is designed to replace single-use packaging through a convenient returnable packaging system for corporate offices London wide. The expansion will see more restaurants and cafes in London provide the service to London businesses.
Business customers will have a choice to opt in for CLUBZERØ reusable packaging when placing an order from a range of participating restaurants or cafes through the Just Eat for Business platform. Having enjoyed their meals, the packaging will be collected by CLUBZERØ bikes to be washed centrally and redistributed for reuse.
The expansion follows on from CLUBZERØ’s pilot with Just Eat Takeaway.com in 2021.
Safia Qureshi, Founder and CEO of CLUBZERØ, said: “We are thrilled to be expanding our work with Just Eat following a successful 10-month pilot with Just Eat for Business. Our vision is to see reuse adopted as the new norm across F&B delivery and takeaway. We have achieved a major milestone in making this a reality for hundreds of businesses and consumers London wide. We look forward to expanding this model throughout 2023 with Just Eat for Business. ”
Matt Ephgrave, Managing Director at Just Eat for Business, added: “Minimising our environmental impact has always been at the heart of our business, however we knew that in order to achieve minimal waste, we needed to provide a sustainable service that would stick and be easily implemented into our restaurant partners’ delivery models. Our partnership with CLUBZERØ does just that – it offers a convenient service as well as an effective way to reduce packaging waste.
“We’re thrilled to be part of the journey to making the food delivery industry more environmentally friendly and are looking forward to seeing more and more businesses adopt the same approach.”
According to Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index, worldwide parcel volume is likely to double in the next five years, with the UK showing the highest increase in carrier revenue of all 13 countries in the Index.
Alongside a huge uptake in the volume of parcel volume and spend, post pandemic, the adoption of hybrid working patterns means that FMs need to find ways to enable staff to book / host collaborative meetings in available workspaces and to find desk, office and parking spaces by utilising automation and data capture to enable site governance.
Yet a recent survey by FMJ in partnership with Pitney Bowes found that 20 per cent of recipients are still using manual paper-based visitor systems, which doesn’t fit with their top priority – to maintain a safe and operational environment.
This overwhelming reliance on paper-based systems is causing many respondents bottlenecks, resulting in a lack of efficiently in logging and tracking packages and people coming into the organisation.
In this webinar, Gary Abbott Director of Business Development and Stuart Bushaway, Head of Dealers Operations and FM Relationships at Pitney Bowes will outline the main findings of the two surveys and what this could mean for FMs. This will be followed by a discussion, chaired by FMJ Editor Sara Bean comprising Wayne Young – Facilities Manager, Just Eat Takeaway.com & Simi Gandhi-Whitaker, Strategic Technology Director, Connected Workspace, Mitie.
Register for the webinar here.
