South Africa - Business creation project

Describe your project or startup in a few words

Food&tech solutions business that revolutionises the mobile kitchen industry by sourcing fresh, premium and locally sourced ingredients to create, nutritious meals all year round for sale to the e-hailing and service delivery industry at the click of a bu

01.01 Describe your project in more detail

Fast Fuel Bites is a Food and tech solutions business that revolutionises the mobile kitchen industry by sourcing fresh, premium and locally sourced ingredients to create delectable, nutritious meals all year round for sale to the e-hailing and service delivery industry at the click of a button.

01.02 What is the main problem you are trying to solve?

I am addressing the daily pain points that the e-hailing and service delivery drivers face such as to fulfil their basic needs for food, food safety, food options, food affordability with other pain points in replacing a new set of tyres, maintenance and repairs to the vehicle, car parts being expensive all in all maintaining their income generating activities.

01.03 Tell us the major benefits and/or advantages of using the product/service that your project intends to provide (at least 3).

Imagine this: you're a busy ridesharing or delivery driver, rushing from one job to another without a moment for a meal. Finally, you get a break and pull out your phone to connect with other drivers. You see everyone talking about where to eat, but you realize you're short on cash. Then you spot Fast Fuel Bites – a savior for drivers like you. You can order now and pay through driving off your food expense. Just order, arrive, tap and go. And here's the kicker: every meal earns you points for rewards and discounts on vehicle maintenance or tire changes or car washes. It's a win-win! We’re looking to serve an untapped market that is underserved with a growing demand for nutritious food options and to alleviate their daily pain points simply by eating with us

01.04 Please describe who exactly your project is aimed at serving. Who are the targeted beneficiaries?

We are aiming to target the e- hailing and service delivery drivers by rewarding and incentivising the target market to eat with us and those rewards come from mutually beneficial collaborations centred around improving the lively hoods of the target market, as well as benefiting the partnerships and collaborations to access a large amount of the niche target market to inform their business on a revenue basis.

01.05 When did you start working on your project?

2023-11-11

01.06 How many other partners are associated with your business venture?

1

01.07 Among the other partners, how many are female?

0

01.08 Please describe the profile of each of the other partners (skills, experience, etc.)

He possesses a NFQ certificate , Degree in Civil Engineering, Diploma in architectural technology, Blockchain solutions architect and also Co Founded Fraxeum, a software company operating in the block chain industry as well as the CEO of Afrileap, and urban farm, producing hops and has 10 years experience in urban agriculture

01.09 If you have a website, a social media page (Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin…), or app, please provide the link here:

01.10 Which industry best describes your project?

d) Primary commodities (food, drink, household and personal products)

02.01.01 My project contributes to the No poverty goal

4

02.01.02 No poverty - Justification

02.02.01 My project contributes to the Zero hunger goal

4

02.02.02 Zero hunger - Justification

02.03.01 My project contributes to the Good health and well-being goal

5

02.03.02 Good health and well-being - Justification

We understand that our target market struggles to maintain healthy and nutritious eating based on their income constraints that hinders them from sourcing higher quality food. We would be aiming to alleviate those stresses through our team of chefs, to create nutritious meals that are delicious bearing in mind their incoming generating activities. Also any surplus of food and ingredients that we’d have we would aim to change the diets of malnourished school communities through the success and partnerships of our business, lending skills, and ingredients and infrastructure to make a healthy impact in those areas. Most of our target market is from the lower income class and because of their pains and gripes in working in the service delivery and e-hailing industry they lack maintaining their eating quality and through is alleviating their stresses and educating them on quality eating we’d aim to directly and indirectly improve their eating quality and the communities attached to them.

02.04.01 My project contributes to the Quality education goal

5

02.04.02 Quality education - Justification

We’d aim to bring education to the informal food vendors that the target market often frequents for their daily food needs and we understand that within that industry, there is lack of knowledge of food preparation and food and hygiene handling as well as the informal business side of their businesses. We would be aiming to collaborate with them to educate and inform their businesses on those fronts as well as working with small holder farms to inform and improve their business so we can improve the quality of food in the food ecosystem.

02.05.01 My project contributes to the Gender equality goal

5

02.05.02 Gender equality - Justification

We would aim to adhere to the promotion of gender quality on all the different levels of the business by prioritising the achievement of gender equality through hiring the groups of people that are under looked in most businesses so that we can create inclusion and opportunities of growth through Fast Fuel Bites.

02.06.01 My project contributes to the Clean water and sanitation goal

1 - Strongly Disagree

02.06.02 Clean water and sanitation - Justification

02.07.01 My project contributes to the Affordable and clean energy goal

1 - Strongly Disagree

02.07.02 Affordable and clean energy - Justification

02.08.01 My project contributes to the Decent work and economic growth

4

02.08.02 Decent work and economic growth - Justification

02.09.01 My project contributes to the Industry innovation and infrastructure

5

02.09.02 Industry innovation and infrastructure - Justification

We aim to build technology to streamline all of our operations to create an ease of service for the target market, to make it an on demand service for them. As well as build technology on the blockchain to tap into the fintech aspects that we aim to introduce to our target market in the future, giving them a platform to be able to address their daily quality eating as well as being able to manage their income generating activities through the infrastructure and technology we aim to build.

02.10.01 My project contributes to the Reduced inequalities goal

2

02.10.02 Reduced inequalities - Justification

02.11.01 My project contributes to the Sustainable cities and communities goal

2

02.11.02 Sustainable cities and communities - Justification

02.12.01 My project contributes to the Responsible consumption and production goal

4

02.12.02 Responsible consumption and production - Justification

02.13.01 My project contributes to the Climate action goal

2

02.13.02 Climate action - Justification

02.14.01 My project contributes to the Life below water goal

2

02.14.02 Life below water - Justification

02.15.01 My project contributes to the Life on land goal

1 - Strongly Disagree

02.15.02 Life on land - Justification

02.16.01 My project contributes to the Peace justice and strong institutions goal

1 - Strongly Disagree

02.16.02 Peace justice and strong institutions - Justification

02.17.01 My project contributes to the Partnerships for the goal

5

02.17.02 Partnerships for the goal - Justification

We aim to create an inclusive mutually beneficial ecosystem of partnerships. From small holder farmers, to our target markets, to the private sector business as well as the informal sector of business that we aim to promote and grow within our capacity through consistent and maintained steps to promote and maintain these partnerships.

05.01 There are a large number of customers who already use a product/service very similar to the product/service we envision creating.

1 - Strongly Disagree

05.02 The product/service we envision creating represents an entirely new type of product/service.

7 - Strongly Agree

05.03 The product/service we envision creating could be described as a new technology.

5

05.04 The product/service we envision creating is an improvement on an existing product or service.

6

05.05 The product/service we envision creating could be described as an extension of a range of products or services.

5

05.06 The product/service we envision creating responds to a demand or need that has not been satisfied by other products/services.

7 - Strongly Agree

05.07 The product/service we envision creating is a new version of an old product/service.

4

05.08 Justification

We believe that our business is existing already, because in essence it’s food that we’re selling but food with a give back that also promotes technology to streamline our operations and processes and this is strengthened through consistent communication and partnership building and maintaining so that we can create an ecosystem that’s beneficial to all of the stake holders, food already exists and technology already exists and we’re aiming to fuse these two industries together with a give back that people can appreciate and feel included in.

05.09 Who are your main potential competitors and what makes you stand out from them?

Our main competitors that we have identified are, select fast food outlets, informal food vendors and petrol station cafés. We stand out from them by incorporating what they lack to deliver and turn that into our value proposition. We take the systems, food quality and preparation of food safely with quality control to ensure consistency and efficiency and we serve a daily need for humans and our target market and put them at the forefront of the benefiting from eating with us by offering them rewards to promote their livelihoods, eating quality and promote their income generating activities so that holistically creates an environment to feel appreciated and noticed when so many times they are over looked by the companies they operate for and as well as the other factors that take away from them rather than give them something back.

10.06 Are you initiating actions within your community to promote the role of female entrepreneurs?

Not currently