Meet the Buyer x Join Program

Our Meet the Buyer sessions are designed to connect passionate food entrepreneurs with potential customers, buyers, and/or category managers. Monthly, we invite buyers from all different categories of the food scene, like supermarkets, online retailers, hotel chains, wholesale, restaurant owners, etc. These sessions offer exclusive sales opportunities, feedback, and/or professional connections that you won’t get anywhere else. In this session, we welcome Join Program!

About Join Program
Join Program delivers office catering to companies such as Booking.com, Nike, Too Good To Go and Coty. By rewriting the rules of office catering, Join Program serves really, really good food at your office, every day, without your own kitchen. Each day, their chefs create surprising dishes, developed by their food curators. They cook along the waves of the seasons and with locally sourced products. It is their higher goal to make a better world by changing the (food) system, bringing awareness, and making it easier for people to access better food, live a better life, and make a better planet.

Requirements Join Program
Join Program is looking for products that work towards better food, a better life and a better planet. Their team is mostly looking for new products/ingredients that they can use for the lunches that they produce in their production kitchen in Diemen (semi-finished products).

– Ideally they are produced with local ingredients/local suppliers
– Availability at Sligro and Instock is a preference
– Possibility for bulk packaging is a preference
– Looking for plant-based alternatives for animal protein. Please no over-modified products, plus gluten-free would also be nice
– Fermented vegetables (with FSSC certification)
– Pickled (preserved) vegetables
– Innovative items and products
– Next to office lunch, Join Program is also interested in products that contribute to their “all day offer” for companies: breakfast, coffee & tea bars, pantries, banquet meetings, energisers, convenience fridges. 

Who will you meet during this session?
Sander Uitdehaag – Content Food Curator
Tamara van der Leek – Food Curator
Tess Bezemer – Nutrition Specialist 
Suzanne Kok – Buyer 
Femke Meijer – Teamlead Food Curator

KR’s requirements:
– Be a member of the KR Community
– Arrive on time, assets prepared (tasting materials/presentation documents prepped) and ready to pitch
– As space is limited and time precious, please understand that KR and the guest buyer will select the most relevant food companies to see during each session as it relates to the buyer/companies focus.
– You can also leave your product(s) behind for the buyer, Kitchen Republic will collect your feedback.

How does it work?
– We offer time slots of 10 minutes per company. This might sound short, but it’s definitely long enough to make a lasting impression.
– Applications for this MTB session close on January 12. If selected, we will contact you the week prior with time slot details.