Empty desks kill culture. Lunch brings people back.
86% say food brings them to the office.
Fresh, chef-cooked lunch. Tax-free, and traceable to the farm.
Meal passport
Tokyo Teriyaki Bowl
Served today · lot-linked at production
Hero ingredients traced
Free-range chicken
CHK-2026-118Biohof Leipzig · 12 km
Jasmine rice
RCE-2026-042Hof Sonnenblume · 28 km
Broccoli
BRC-2026-031Gärtnerei Lindner · 15 km
0.42 kg
CO₂e
18 L
Water
12×
Bowl reused
Every serving gets a scannable passport. No login required.
The problem
The office became optional. Connection went with it.
Hybrid won. Most desks sit empty most days, and the casual moments that built your culture stopped happening.
€164B
lost to disengagement in Germany every year (Gallup)
11%
of German employees feel engaged at work (Gallup)
One ritual still pulls people in. A shared lunch.
The fix
One lunch. Four edges.
A daily lunch your team shows up for, built to win on every line item.
Tax-free, up to €7.67 a day.
Under Sachbezug rules you cover up to €7.67 per person per workday, tax-free and social-insurance-free. The benefit your team feels most, at the lowest cost per euro.
Traced to the farm. Every bowl.
Scan any bowl and see the farms, lots and kitchen batch behind it. Not labelled regional. Proven regional.
Cooked in Leipzig. Not shipped to it.
One local kitchen, batch-cooked every morning, short routes. No dark kitchens, no national logistics.
Reusable bowls. Nothing in the bin.
Smart bowls go back with the next delivery. Your lunch produces zero single-use packaging.
Lunch on rails. Every workday.
Three steps. Zero admin for you.
Everyone orders.
Your team picks meals in the app by 09:00. Standing orders run on their own.
We batch-cook.
Our Leipzig kitchen cooks every order fresh in one batch, ingredient lots logged as we go.
One drop. Scan to trace.
Lunch lands at your office in one delivery. One invoice a month, Sachbezug paperwork auto-generated.
Everyone solves part of lunch. We solve the whole job.
Catering marketplaces
They broker menus and leave the subsidy rules, the admin and the why-bother to you.
Meal vouchers
Money on a card. Everyone spends it alone, and the shared lunch never happens.
Delivery apps
Thirty couriers, thirty bags, no idea where any of it came from.
Rivo does the whole job.
One shared, subsidised, chef-cooked lunch that gives your team a reason to be in the room. And only Rivo lets you scan any bowl back to the farm that grew it.
Built for Leipzig. Sized for your office.
Offices of 35 to 250 people with hybrid teams that want more days together.
Founders & MDs
Make the office worth the commute again.
People & HR leads
A benefit people feel every day, with the paperwork done for you.
Office leads
One drop, one invoice, nobody chasing couriers.
FAQ
Catering and benefits in Leipzig. Answered.
What Leipzig founders, HR and office leads ask before they book.
Do you offer corporate catering for offices in Leipzig?
Yes. Rivo Meals is a B2B catering service for Leipzig offices of 35 to 250 people. We cook fresh every morning in our local kitchen and deliver one batch to your office by 12:00, so there is no canteen to run and no couriers to chase.
How does Rivo work as a B2B employee benefit?
A subsidised daily lunch is one of the most-used corporate benefits because employees feel it every working day. You set a daily subsidy, employees order in the app, and we handle cooking, delivery and the payroll paperwork. It gives hybrid teams a reason to come into the office together.
What does it cost per employee?
Under German Sachbezug rules you can give up to €7.67 per person per working day completely tax-free and social-insurance-free (Sachbezugswert €4.57 plus Essenszuschuss €3.10). That is far cheaper than the equivalent gross salary increase for the same net benefit, and you get one consolidated monthly invoice.
How does the tax-free meal subsidy (Sachbezug) work?
German tax law lets employers subsidise one main meal per working day tax-free, up to €7.67 in 2026 under SvEV and §40 (2) EStG. Rivo generates the Sachbezug payroll documentation automatically, so HR has no manual work. This is not tax advice.
How many employees do we need to start?
Rivo is built for Leipzig offices of roughly 35 to 250 people with hybrid teams. If you have a smaller or larger team, talk to us and we will tell you honestly whether it works.
How is this different from a canteen or a delivery app?
A canteen costs six figures a year to run. Delivery apps mean thirty separate orders and no shared lunch. Rivo gives you one shared, subsidised, chef-cooked meal with zero infrastructure, and every bowl traces back to the farm that grew the ingredients.
Turn lunch into the reason your team comes in.
Pilots start July 2026. Limited pilot slots for Leipzig offices.
Free 3-day pilot
We cook for your team for three days at no cost. You watch who shows up.
Questions? Write to us at team@rivomeal.com