Recolt au travail delivers honey, cheese or vegetables from local producers in business Montpellier. This start-up, which started its activity in June 2022, therefore allows employees to place an order and collect their basket directly at their workplace.
Interview with Emmanuelle Rüd, co-founder of Recolt au boulot.
How to get local products delivered if you work in Montpellier with Recolt at work?
The company contacts us and signs a Monthly subscription which includes delivery. With this monthly subscription, all employees have access to private sales from all the local producers selected by us. They are 100% agroecological and above all are good for the taste buds and the planet.
Every week, we open a harvest. The collaborators choose their basket without minimum purchases and especially without obligation of orders, then reach producer prices. These are prices set by the producers and we take no margin on these prices. And then, on Monday or Tuesday, they are delivered directly to work.
You said it, there is a monthly subscription to be paid by the company. It is €250 per month. It’s still a cost, but is it the price to pay for you to take care of everything?
We take care of everything, from selection to delivery and communication. We don’t just select and deliver the best local products. We are also in charge of initiating discussions on sustainable food within the company.
And it also creates a vector of social ties within the company. We share articles on sustainable food, the stories of our producers, recipe ideas. We liven up the company a little with contests, we give away products. There is really a very human relationship that is created between us and the employees of the company.
What type of product are we talking about and where do they come from?
It’s 100% local. What we do is select producers around Montpellier. Whether it’s goat cheese, honey, market gardening, caviar, that’s all that’s truly local.
Then, we have a partnership with an ultra local supermarket which allows us to enlarge our circle a little and to go 150 kilometers. The same, with a really very strict, local charter. Even on processed products, we are 80% local on the ingredients. This allows us to look for products such as meat or cheese which are a little further than Hérault, which are in Lozère, in Larzac etc.
And with each catalog proposal, employees do their shopping? It’s not an imposed basket, they look and then they make their selection of products?
Exactly. It’s like a market, but on the Internet, they go around the stands of our producers. And then they order and then the order is sent to us and we send it to the producers.
And also what we do is the catalog changes every two weeks. We really want to show the diversity of the terroir and the Montpellier seashore to show all these enthusiasts and the way in which we can ultimately eat ultra local, without, without effort.
Why did you choose to deliver directly to the workplace of Montpellier residents?
To try to answer a problem related to time. It takes time to find the right addresses because who says local does not necessarily mean good. We do this work of selection and we deliver to try to save time and to really get our hands dirty on another diet, another way of shopping, more reasoned too.
The idea is to pool all our journeys to reduce our carbon emissions. We wish to address a group of purchases and companies. A company represents this purchasing group. This is a journey for 40 employees. And we want to deliver four companies a day. So we’re talking to companies with between 20 and 40 employees. The idea is to maximize all our trips, to make all the vans profitable.
More information on the Recolt at work website by clicking here.