Best Food Service Chains Companies in Paris, France
The 58 best Food Service Chains companies in Paris, France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Sushi Shop.
Our analysis of 50 Food Service Chains companies
$8.5b in tracked funding; 90% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Food Service Chains companies in Paris
| # | Company | Employees | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elior Group Catering service provider | 96,912 | — | 124 mo ago | Public | 1991 | DrupalApple iCloud MailPHP+13 | — |
| 2 | Groupe Bertrand Chain of full service restaurant | 35,000 | — | 240 mo ago | Series A | 1997 | WordPressMySQLPHP+15 | — |
| 3 | Elior Provider of catering & facility management services to public and private clients | 8,464 | — | 228 mo ago | Acquired | 1991 | DrupalPHPYouTube+11 | — |
| 4 | Fauchon A French gourmet and delicatessen company | 1,500 | — | 288 mo ago | Late Stage | 1886 | Amazon WebstorePHPHere+27 | 1 internship · 1 expansion · 1 award |
| 5 | Lon de Bruxelles Chain of casual dining restaurants offering food and liquor | 1,500 | — | — | Acquired | 1989 | — | — |
| 6 | Pomme de Pain Chain of restaurant offering sandwiches 62Tech top 40%Product top 42%Market top 44%Funding top 45% All 6 signals ▾Techtop 40% Producttop 42% Markettop 44% Fundingtop 45% Growthtop 45% Globalbottom 36% Tech: 30 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare Product: 1 published app (23.6k installs) · Company stage: Acquired rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | 725 | $6M | 53 mo ago | Acquired | 1980 | WordPress Site EditorWordPressMySQL+27 | — |
| 7 | Maison Lyovel Chain of coffee cafe | 680 | — | — | Funding Raised | 2015 | SimpléboRubyRuby on Rails+12 | 1 launch |
| 8 | lenôtre Lenôtre symbolizes the elegance and rigor of French luxury. | 630 | — | — | Acquired | 1947 | Cart FunctionalityMagentoElasticsearch+23 | — |
Top 12 Food Service Chains companies in Paris
#1
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2016 · 42 employees$3.3Mraised▾
Offers catering service provider for corporate clients
- Nov 2024Series A$3.2M
- Mar 2021Seed$3.3M
#2
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 1980 · 725 employees$6.5Mraised▾
Operator of an eating joint and a chain of fast food restaurants. The company's eating joint and a chain of fast food restaurants various fast food such as coffee, sandwiches, salads, desserts and hot drinks.
- Jan 2022Grant (prize money)$1.6M
- Dec 2021Grant (prize money)$227K
- Nov 2021Grant (prize money)$824.4K
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$818.8K
#3
Series C · Paris, Ile de France · founded 1998$46Mraised▾
Chain of limited service restaurant offering Japanese cuisine
- Aug 2011Series C$46M
#4
Series B · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2008 · 132 employees$19.7Mraised▾
Restaurant serving wines and popping champagne
- Apr 2019Series B$19.7M
#5
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2019 · 10 employees$10Mraised▾
Chain of limited service restaurant
- Feb 2020Series A$8M
- Jun 2019Seed$2M
#6
Early Stage · Paris, Ile de France · founded 1994$11Mraised▾
Chain of coffee cafes
- PE$11M
#7
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2013 · 29 employees$3Mraised▾
Operator of coworking cafe space intended to entertain clients while working. The company's shop offers coffee, tea, snacks, and fruits and additionally provides access to high-speed Wi-Fi, a projector, printer, scanner, and board games, enabling customers to work on their projects or prepare for exams, advance their start-up, or find new team members.
- Oct 2019Seed$1.9M
- Jun 2016Seed$1.1M
#8
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2006 · 500 employees$4Mraised▾
Operator of a chain of restaurants in France. The company offers various types of specialities that are prepared to order and with premium ingredients inspired from Japanese traditions. It is the third french sushi restaurant with 30 restaurants all over France.
- Feb 2012Seed$4M
#9
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2010 · 105 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Bagel Corner owns and operates a chain of fast food restaurants. Its offerings include bagels and other fast foods. The company operates through franchises across France. The products can also be ordered online for home delivery, take away or on spot dining.
- Oct 2016Series A$1M
- Jun 2014Seed$272.4K
#10
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2010 · 66 employees$143.7Kraised▾
Boca Mexa owns and operates restaurant chain. The restaurant specializes in Mexican food and offers burritos, tacos, salads, quesadillas, beverages, etc. The company is based in Paris, France.
- 2015Seed—
- Jan 2010Seed$143.7K
#11
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2014 · 150 employees—raised▾
Limited service restaurant chain serving Thai cuisine
- Nov 2021Seed—
#12
Public · Paris, Ile de France · founded 1991 · 96912 employees—raised▾
Elior Group is an operator in contract catering, support services and concession catering for travel retail. In addition, the company offers concession catering and travel retail services at motorways, airports, railway stations, and city sites and leisure parks. As of 2017, the company operates in 25,000 restaurants and points of sale in 16 countries worldwide, and claims to be third in concession catering and fourth in contract catering worldwide.
- Mar 2016Post IPO—
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
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How research on Food Tech in Paris is moving
A read on the academic research around Food Tech in Paris — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 89 papers.
AgroParisTech and Université Paris-Saclay lead Paris's food-tech research, dominantly examining sustainability and food waste reduction across 89 papers, with a cautiously contested tone (mean stance 0.07, concerns outweighing breakthroughs).
- AgroParisTech43
- Université Paris-Saclay15
- Institut d\'écologie et des sciences de l\'environnement de Paris8
- Université Paris Cité5
- CEA Paris-Saclay4
- Agriculture4
- Food processing2
- Stylized fact2
- Productivity2
- Natural resource economics2
- Contamination5
- Sustainability4
- Production (economics)4
- Product (mathematics)3
- Workflow3
- Agriculture1→14
- Food processing1→7
- Production (economics)1→4
Common questions
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