New Fooda Price Index draws on millions of transactionsacross 270 cities as the cost of lunch at work rises approximately 5% year overyear
Chicago, IL(May 12, 2026) – Fooda (“theCompany”), a workplace food platform, today announced the launch of the Fooda Price Index (FPI). TheFPI tracks the price of lunch and offers historical and current insight into aworkplace cost that impacts millions of workers.
The FPI iscalculated by reviewing the average price paid by consumers at checkout formeals at their workplaces across 270 cities. The data comes from Fooda’sproprietary point-of-sale application and includes both credit card and cashtransactions. The index is calculated by dividing total transaction value bythe total number of transactions and is updated quarterly.
“As moreemployees return to the office, employers and restaurant partners seek reliablebenchmarks,” said Orazio Buzza, Founder and CEO of Fooda. “The FPI provides ourrestaurant partners and clients with a simple, comparable measure of howworkplace meal prices are changing over time and helps inform pricing and menudecisions. Based on recent FPI data, workplace meals are up approximately 5%year-over-year, and we expect this trend to continue in 2026.”
About Fooda
Founded in 2011,Fooda is a leading workplace food platform. The Company works with more than2,500 companies and 4,000 restaurant partners across 38 states, servingworkplaces through popups, delivery, catering, pantry, and modern caféprograms. The company has served more than 125 million meals to date acrossAmerica. Fooda has built its own proprietary technology experience – Fooda OS –that is supported by AI and enables data-driven scheduling, demand forecasting,and concept rotating. For more information, please visit https://www.fooda.com/.
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