What Yimi Station does

Yimi Station (深圳市一米云站科技有限公司) is a Shenzhen-headquartered smart catering platform founded in 2014 that operates group-meal services for schools and commercial enterprises across China's Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta. The company runs three purpose-built central kitchens in Shenzhen (Longhua, Longgang) and Hangzhou, each certified to HACCP and GMP standards, with hot-chain logistics delivering meals to partner schools and enterprise accounts. Its differentiating layer is the Yimi Cloud Intelligent Data System paired with IoT-enabled smart food pickup cabinets (智能取餐柜) that link online ordering and payment to offline temperature-preserving terminals, enabling personalized campus dining, daily menu variety, and ingredient traceability from central kitchen to pickup point.

The product portfolio spans two commercial lines: campus meals (校园餐), the primary segment serving K-12 schools with personalized ordering and parent-committee engagement programs, and commercial meals (商业餐), providing contactless delivery and fixed-point distribution to office buildings and business parks. Revenue is generated through subscription-style, contract-based catering agreements negotiated via direct field sales rather than published pricing. The company voluntarily adopted and helped formulate the T/SZS 3029-2021 School Group Meal Delivery Service Specification, an early compliance signal in the Shenzhen school catering market.

Yimi is privately held and management-controlled, having raised approximately $2.9 million in a December 2018 Series A led by Fang Fund Partners. Operating units include wholly-owned kitchen subsidiary Shenzhen Yimi Kitchen Catering Management Co., Ltd. and regional entity Hangzhou Yimi Cloud Food Technology Co., Ltd. The company employs 11-50 staff and serves "tens of thousands" of users, but has disclosed no revenue, ARR, or headcount trend.

Name

Yimi Station

Legal name

深圳市一米云站科技有限公司

Website

https://yimigreat.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Institutional Catering Services

NAICS

Special Food Services (7223), Limited-Service Restaurants (722513), Caterers (722320)

SIC

Retail-Eating Places (5812), Refrigeration & Service Industry Machinery (3580)

akta.pro primary industry

Food Services & Catering (On-site/Corporate Dining/Vending) (IMAIAAAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Meal Prep & Subscription Virtual Kitchens (THAFAJAI), Cold Storage Warehouse Temperature Monitoring (Refrigerated & Frozen) (AFAOALAC)

Keywords

• Smart catering platform
• School meal services
• Centralized kitchen operations
• IoT food delivery
• Commercial catering services

Headquarters

HQ city

Shenzhen

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Campus Catering Services (校园餐): Provides personalized dining services for schools, including meal preparation, hot chain delivery, and on-site service. Revenue is generated through contract-based catering services with educational institutions.
2. Commercial Catering Services (商业餐): Provides contactless food delivery and catering services for commercial enterprises and business units. Offers convenient dining solutions with定点交付 and self-service dining.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Yimi Station is a smart catering platform providing personalized meal services for schools (校园餐) and commercial enterprises (商业餐) through three proprietary HACCP-certified central kitchens and IoT-enabled smart food pickup cabinets. The company pairs its own meal production with a proprietary Yimi Cloud Intelligent Data System that connects online ordering to offline pickup, supports ingredient traceability and full cooking-process visibility, and delivers meals to consumers via a hot-chain logistics network.

Product overview

Yimi Station operates as an integrated smart catering platform combining online ordering (消费互联网) with offline smart terminals. The core offering includes: (1) 一米云站 - the main brand platform, (2) 校园餐 - specialized school catering services, (3) 商业餐 - commercial/enterprise catering, (4) 一米厨房 - three international-standard central kitchen facilities (Longhua, Longgang, Hangzhou), (5) 一米云智能数据系统 - the intelligent data platform enabling personalized dining and production optimization, and (6) 智能取餐柜 - smart pickup cabinets for convenient food collection. The platform connects demand-side data reversely to central kitchens, achieving ingredient traceability and full-process visibility.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Campus Meals (校园餐) Specialized school catering service targeting K-12 students and educational institutions, featuring daily varying menus, healthy eating options, eco-friendly recyclable tableware, and integration with the personalized online ordering platform and IoT smart pickup cabinets for contact-free meal distribution on campus.
• Commercial Meals (商业餐) Contactless meal delivery service for commercial enterprises, office buildings, and business parks, offering fixed-point delivery (定点交付), self-service dining, and centralized collection to provide employees with safe and efficient dining options.
• Yimi Kitchen (一米厨房) Central Kitchen Operations Modern central kitchen facilities operating under HACCP and GMP international standards with 99 kitchen operating standards and 32 detailed on-site operational standards, professional food safety management teams, and an in-house laboratory for food safety testing; active locations include Longhua (Shenzhen), Longgang (Shenzhen), and Hangzhou.
• Yimi Cloud Station (一米云站) Smart Catering Platform The integrated online platform that ties together campus and commercial meal ordering, hot-chain delivery scheduling, smart pickup cabinet coordination, and the underlying intelligent data system to deliver personalized dining for institutional customers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 99 kitchen operating standards and 32 detailed on-site operational standards
• +1 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Maijindi (麦金地): Major Chinese group meal service provider focused on campuses and enterprises with centralized kitchen operations. Comparable in targeting the school catering vertical and operating capital-intensive kitchen infrastructure.
• Hexin Catering (和兴餐饮): Group meal and central kitchen operator serving schools and enterprises in southern China. Comparable in kitchen operating model and customer vertical.
• Hongjun Dietary (鸿骏膳食): Chinese group catering company with strong school and institutional focus in the Pearl River Delta and other regions. Comparable customer base and central kitchen operating model.
• Dingtai Group Meals (鼎泰盛): Centralized kitchen-based Chinese group catering company serving schools and enterprises. Comparable in capital-intensive kitchen infrastructure and institutional customer focus.
• Shuwang Catering (蜀王餐饮): One of China's largest group catering companies, providing centralized kitchen meal services to schools, enterprises, and government institutions. Closely comparable to Yimi Station in business model, customer base, and central kitchen operating model.
• Jiankun Group Meals (健坤餐饮): Chinese group catering company serving schools and government institutions with central kitchen production. Directly comparable as a multi-region school and institutional meal service competitor.
• Wanxi Group Meals (万喜餐饮): Chinese central kitchen-based group meal provider serving schools and government units. Comparable in operating model, customer vertical, and kitchen-led delivery approach.

Emerging players

• Meican (美餐): Tech-enabled enterprise catering platform that aggregates restaurant and catering options for corporate employees. Comparable as a technology-forward catering platform serving enterprise customers, though less focused on central kitchen ownership.

Broad incumbents

• Compass Group China: Global food services and support services major with significant China operations across schools and enterprises. Comparable as an institutional catering incumbent with international food safety standards and broader portfolio.
• Sodexo China: Global on-site services giant operating in China across schools, enterprises, and healthcare. Comparable in serving institutional catering customers, with broader portfolio and substantially larger scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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