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Award-winning chain of restaurants & pop-ups serving healthy & delicious Mediterranean food, fast.

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Funded 29 May 2015
£250,007 target
£454,651 from 249 investors
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Business overview

Location London, United Kingdom
Social media
Website www.hbros.co.uk
Sectors Food & Beverage Non-Digital B2C
Company number 05045547
Incorporation date 5 Feb 2005
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Investment summary

Type Equity
Valuation (pre-money) £5.5M
Equity offered 7.46%
Tax relief

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Idea

Introduction

We currently operate 4 high street locations and 50 popups a month in canteens of large offices such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan or Morgan Stanley.

We serve healthy & tasty Mediterranean food including hummus bowls topped with mouthwatering toppings such as beef stew, sauteed chicken, guacamole or falafel and accompanied by pitta bread. We also serve home made soups, quinoa-based dishes, salads and desserts.

We intend to expand further by opening more high street locations, operate more canteens and sell our preservative-free hummus in supermarkets. To do this we would use High Pressure Processing (HPP) technology which extends the shelf life of the product without changing our award winning recipe. We found that there is virtually no hummus brand in supermarkets, only the supermarkets' own label. We believe that we could capture a significant share of this £100m market and grow it by offering our better quality hummus.

Intended impact

Over the past few years we have observed the popularity of Mediterranean food and hummus in particular increase significantly. We have been making our food available by first opening high street restaurants and more recently directly in canteens of large offices around London. We are now looking to make our hummus available in supermarkets.

Our menu offers healthy options including ones for vegans and vegetarians as well as for our customers that have food intolerances to gluten, lactose or nuts.

We are hoping to make our wholesome, freshly-made, preservative-free food available more widely so that more people can adopt a healthy diet.

Substantial accomplishments to date

Over the past 10 years we have had a number of accomplishments.

We have opened 4 high street locations and operated 350 popups in corporate restaurants in 2014. We are looking to double that number in 2015.

We have been named one of Time Out's Top 50 restaurants in London as well as regularly featured in their Top Cheap Eats. Hummus Bros has been featured in a number of publications such as the Evening Standard, The Drum, The Telegraph, The Financial Times, etc (our press coverage is available at www.hbros.co.uk/press).

In 2014 we released our first cook book packed with 60 of our best recipes.

We have also recently launched our pre-ordering mobile app for iOS and Android as well as a retail range of Mediterranean products in our stores.

We have also been developing new products such as wraps, soups, Shakshuka and quinoa.

Monetisation strategy

We currently turn over £2m* from our four restaurant locations, popups in corporate restaurants and deliveries to offices around London. These all operate predominately on week days at lunchtime.

We are looking to continue innovating with new products and how these are delivered to our customers to increase the revenue from all our current channels.

We are hoping to increase our turnover over the next 12 months by opening 3 more high street locations and doubling the number of popups that we operate.

*Source: unaudited management accounts

Use of proceeds

We have opened 4 branches over the past 10 years which have cost as low as £75k to acquire and refurbish per location (depending on the size of the unit and the rent).

We'd expect to use up to £200,000 of the proceeds to open 2 more branches. The remainder would be used to expand the capacity of our central kitchen (£25,000) and some working capital (£25,000).

The maximum we will seek is £500,000 in which case we will open 4 more branches (£400,000), expand the capacity of our central kitchen (£25,000) and launch a range of supermarket products (£25,000). The remainder will be used as working capital (£50,000).

Market

Target market

For our restaurants, we have observed that our target market is urban professionals between the ages of 23 and 40 that are looking to eat a quick & healthy meal at lunchtime.

For our corporate popups and corporate deliveries our target market is large companies based in central London predominantly in technology and financial services.

Characteristics of target market

The eating out market in the UK is valued in excess of £82.5bn and growing at 3% annually. Emerging fast food concepts, coffee shops and further proliferation of street food movement could drive the market over the next year.
We have been observing that demand for healthy, Mediterranean lunch options has been growing rapidly as well as meals that are suitable for customer with food intolerances or special dietary requirements.

Finally another trend has been emerging: flexegetarianism which refers to people looking to reduce the amount of meat they consume.

Marketing strategy

We currently have three channels to bring our products to market:
1. High street restaurants - we have 4 branches on busy high streets (Wardour Street, Southampton Row, Cheapside and Exmouth Market) that we market by sampling our product outside our unit, providing our customers with a pre-ordering mobile app, working on PR initiatives with our partners, suppliers and landlords, training & incentivising our staff to provide good service to ensure customers return, as well as developing new healthy Mediterranean products.
2. Mini-Hummus Bros in Corporate Restaurants - we have developed relationships with 5 of the main caterers who operate across many of the large corporate restaurants in London.
3. Corporate deliveries - we work with a number of logistics partners that provide us with catering opportunities as well as bringing free samples of our food to offices in the vicinity of our units to encourage them to place orders for our food for their meetings.

We are looking to develop all three as well as explore two other channels which include:
1. Supermarket retail products
2. Franchising - we have been in talks with two large franchise operators in the UK and abroad.

Competition strategy

We believe we succeed against our competition by constantly innovating with our product and the way we deliver it.

We also encourage customers to give us feedback so that we can constantly improve our standards. This could help us identifying trends early on and stay ahead of our competition.

Examples of innovation over the past 10 years include:
- Offering a product that was different from anything served on the high street.
- Being one of the first quick service restaurants to offer a pre-ordering app and soon self-checkout tills which allow users to jump the long queue that forms between 12noon and 2pm on a daily basis.
- Training our staff to know what all our products contain in order to advise customers who have food intolerances on what they can eat.
- Publish the nutritional information regarding all our dishes several years ago.
- One of the first businesses in Europe to be on Four Square.

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Valuation (pre-money)

Valuation rounded from £5,496,267

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