Meet smoodi: Start-up Revolutionizing Office Perks
In today’s workplace, office perks are becoming all the rage. Office managers are always needing to get creative with different ideas to motivate employees to perform their best — foosball table in the corner? Beer on tap? Why not! However, as more and more people are jumping on the health food bandwagon, people are starting to wake up to their unhealthy habits of office snacking..
Enter smoodi — a robot that delivers you fresh, customizable smoothies in your office, at any time of day. smoodi’s mission is to improve company culture by boosting people’s moods in the office — making employees happier and healthier.
Incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs, smoodi was founded by a Harvard Business School student, Pascal Kriesche. As a mechanical engineer, entrepreneurship student, and smoothie lover, Pascal merged his passions to create smoodi. While smoodi is still in its early stages, we, smoodi’s team of seven, have already tested the concept with users in several offices in Boston, including at BCG, EY Parthenon, GSVLabs, Wistia, and LearnLaunch.
So what happened? Well, employees were ecstatic to have fresh smoothies at the office. Some of them told us their moods were instantly uplifted, and got them through their afternoon slump. Based our our surveys, 90% of employees said they felt happier after drinking their smoodi. We made the smoothies from a fresh selection of fruits, greens, and boosters and these simple, natural ingredients got us a taste rating of 4.8 stars! More than half of the employees also felt more social at these smoodi tastings, where they either met someone new or spoke with someone they hadn’t seen in a while.
Now that we’ve taken the smoodi band out for a spin, we are ready to build the smoothie machine! We are in engineering mode and are scheduled to have a working prototype by the end of 2018. If you’re ready to make your employees happier and healthier or simply want to learn more, drop us a note at sales@getsmoodi.com!