

With the application on, food lovers are guaranteed convenience as they will receive their food on time,” said Apptivate Africa CEO Neil Ribeiro.Īpptivate notes that, since the inception of the application, it has recorded there has been a growing number of signups from companies who are adopting the lunch provision concept.Īs the company eyes expansion to larger markets, Neil Ribeiro urges more companies to take advantage of the tax-free lunch scheme inscribed in Kenyan laws to achieve shared growth with their employees.

“Since the launch of the application, we have 110 companies, 360 merchants who have signed up and we have 7,000 transactions per day.

CEOs from both companies have undoubtedly confirmed that since the introduction of meals scheme, their employees have improved in productivity and also recorded positive energy from the deliveries they have made since then.Ĭubist pharmaceuticals one of the companies that had incorporated lunch provision on the company daily schedule did a pilot test for 30 employees and they pointed out that the employees were productive and more energetic. Nairobi based companies Tespok, Bean Interactive, Grant Thornton are among other firms that have signed their employees on the M-Kula App for their daily meals. Employers are allowed to choose on the payment plan and are permitted to pay up to Sh12, 000 per employee per month. The M-Kula idea was handpicked from the Kenya Finance Act gazetted in 2015 which allows employers to spend Sh48, 000 annually on every employee’s lunch as tax-free income a voluntary scheme that is slowly gaining traction among corporate companies.Īpptivate charges every employer an average Sh3,600 shillings per month for every employee using the M-Kula App.
