Sharebite has donated 18 million meals. Its CEO wants US employers to copy Brazil
Companies that join receive tax incentives for feeding their employees, and the program now reaches about 22 million workers, according to Brazil’s Ministry of Labor and Employment.
Key points
- Rao says Sharebite’s job is aligning “a real business need with a much broader problem,” and credits his team with developing “solutions to solve those problems at that scale” as it works with larger customers.
- A Government Accountability Office report found that Uber, Lyft and DoorDash now lead major employers in workers receiving SNAP benefits, ahead of Walmart and McDonald’s.
- Nearly half the country’s population is struggling; they’re living from paycheck-to-paycheck, and they don’t know where their next meals are coming from,” he said.
The company says it has donated more than 18 million meals to date.
That’s the reported number!” said Rao, CEO and co-founder of Sharebite, a New York–based employee meal-benefits platform.
Additional details
- For every meal ordered on the platform, Sharebite donates an equivalent meal through nonprofit partners including Feeding America and City Harvest.
- Workers surveyed by Owl Labs said they would come back if employers covered commuting, childcare, and lunch and coffee, Fortune reported in 2023.
- Sharebite raised a $39 million Series B round in 2022.
- The official baseline is 47.9 million people who experienced food insecurity in 2024, according to Feeding America’s analysis of federal data.
- How Sharebite turns office lunch into donations Founded in 2015, Sharebite is built for businesses, not consumers.
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