The restaurant and greater food service industry has nearly been decimated. First by Covid closures, then labor issues, then supply chain issues, and now inflation.
And we’re just coming out of a health crisis, where people are striving to eat better. Today, lettuce is the new steak!
Meanwhile, our fresh vegetable crops in California and Arizona, which currently provide 95% of our leafy greens, are rotting in the field from viruses and labor shortages. And we all know the water out West is quickly running out.
What does the world look like without available and affordable greens? Without restaurants? Where we celebrate, where we congregate, where we are inspired with anticipation.
This really is a problem! Without the necessary ingredients, restaurants are just places to sit.
Here are the choices you have as a chef or food operator when it comes to leafy greens. You can take a gamble on the commodity product and get a case of half brown wilted lettuce shipped from a field 2000 miles away or even worse, short shipped, you get nothing at all. Your only other option is spend 3 to 5 times that price to get locally grown stuff. And remember, restaurants are businesses with razor thin profit margins to begin with.
Bit-Farms will innovate the food service industry by offering a new way to source fresh ingredients. Grown on-site. Providing superior ultra-local greens at a better price.
We do this by installing our modular farm platform inside the host business, which takes 144 sq ft, and about 2 days to assemble. Then, using our service infrastructure, we maintain that farm for a monthly subscription fee. Farming as a service. Its completely hands off for the host business. They just sit back and watch their business thrive.
We provide them control over their own supply chain by integrating our crop plan with their menu. Incorporating historical numbers and seasonal trends. This significantly elevates the entire dining experience by providing an overabundance of deliciously vibrant greens and herbs, just when they need them, for the same predictable monthly price.
These farms are specially engineered pieces of equipment, designed to minimize costs and maximize usable output. By leveraging the operators existing infrastructure, and combining easily assembled parts with low cost open-source IoT technologies, we minimize the cost of materials to build, install, and maintain these indoor farms, while maximizing every cubic inch of grow space.
These farms allow Food Service Operators to select from a variety of herbs, greens, mushrooms, berries and other produce, year-round, regardless of the weather outside. Turning food miles into food minutes.