What Cojean International does

Cojean International, operating as COJEAN SAS, is a French healthy fast-casual restaurant chain founded in November 2001 at rue de Sèvres near Place de la Madeleine in Paris, and led by Thomas Pluchart as Président. The company operates 40+ company-owned locations across Paris (1st through 16th arrondissements), La Défense, Île-de-France suburbs (Neuilly-sur-Seine, Levallois-Perret, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine), and Lyon. The offering centers on fresh, made-to-order balanced meals including seasonal salads, hot dishes, gourmet sandwiches/toastés, breakfast items, light desserts, and a juice bar featuring proprietary functional juice blends (Bodyguard, Glow Elixir, Chill Pill, Whey to Go, Citronnades cold-pressed lemonades) developed with scientifically-supported wellness positioning.

The business operates a multi-channel revenue model combining dine-in, take-away, online ordering via cojean.fr with click & collect and home delivery across Paris and parts of Île-de-France (a fixed €0.10 TTC service fee applies), and a B2B corporate catering service providing customized quotes for breakfasts, working lunches, and event catering. Customer segments split between health-conscious urban professionals (primary, individual consumers) and corporate/enterprise clients (secondary). Pricing follows a per-unit pay-as-you-go model with a "Mon Cojean" loyalty program (1€ = 1 point, redeemable for 60+ products). Underlying operations rely on standard restaurant POS, Flipdish for order management and session authentication, and Google Analytics for site measurement; no public API, proprietary technology platform, or AI/ML capabilities are documented.

The company is privately held with capital social of €1,218,765.06, no disclosed institutional investors or funding rounds, and no identified parent company. Strategic partnerships support both commercial and ESG positioning: Too Good To Go (48,500+ Paniers Anti-Gaspi saved in one year) and Linkee (2+ million products redistributed) for food waste, Combeau for collagen sticks, La Main Noire with Maison de Thé d'Uji for ceremonial-grade matcha, RoseUp for October Rose, and SamuSocial de Paris for the Winter Sleeps 2025 solidarity initiative. Cojean holds B Corp certification and pursues quarterly seasonal menu rotations.

Name

Cojean International

Legal name

COJEAN SAS

Website

https://www.cojean.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Cojean is a privately held French healthy fast-casual restaurant chain founded in 2001, operating 40+ locations across Paris, Île-de-France, and Lyon. It serves health-conscious urban professionals with seasonal salads, functional juices, hot dishes, and corporate catering.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthy Fast-Casual Restaurant

NAICS

Restaurants and Other Eating Places (7225), Limited-Service Restaurants (722513), Caterers (72232)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Health & Wellness / Functional Fast Casual (macro-counted, high-protein, allergen-friendly) (THAFABAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Health-Focused Cafes (Organic/Vegan/Wellness) (THAFADAL), Healthy/Salad/Grain Bowl QSR (THAFAAAJ)

Keywords

• Healthy fast food
• Fresh-pressed juices
• Functional beverages
• Quick-service restaurant
• Corporate catering

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Restaurant Food & Beverage Sales: Direct sales of food and beverages through restaurant locations, take-away, and online orders with click & collect and delivery options. Point-of-sale transactions with various payment methods including credit cards and restaurant vouchers.
2. Corporate Catering: B2B enterprise catering service for corporate events, meetings, and office catering with customized quotes and menu planning.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Cojean operates a chain of healthy fast-casual restaurants selling fresh, made-to-order salads, hot dishes, gourmet sandwiches and toastés, breakfast items, and a signature range of cold-pressed functional juices (Bodyguard, Glow Elixir, Chill Pill). The brand also runs a B2B corporate catering service for business events and a points-based loyalty program (Mon Cojean) supporting dine-in, take-away, click & collect, and home delivery.

Product overview

Cojean is a healthy fast-casual restaurant chain founded in 2001, operating over 40 locations in Paris and the Greater Paris region. The offering consists of a unified restaurant concept with integrated product categories: fresh-pressed functional juices (Bodyguard, Glow Elixir, Chill Pill, Whey to Go, Citronnades), protein beverages (Matcha bio, Blue Ginger Latte, Collagen sticks with Combeau), hot and cold beverages, seasonal salads, hot dishes, gourmet sandwiches/toastés, light desserts, and full breakfast menus. Services include corporate catering, a loyalty program (Mon Cojean), and online ordering with delivery/click & collect. The portfolio is unified under the Cojean brand with seasonal menu rotations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Jus fonctionnels (Functional Juices) Fresh-pressed juices and smoothies with targeted functional health benefits, including Bodyguard (immune support), Glow Elixir (skin health), and Chill Pill (mood regulation). Targeted at health-conscious urban consumers seeking beverages with proven wellness benefits.
• Whey to Go

Quantifiable outcome

• 48,500+ food baskets saved from waste in one year via Too Good To Go partnership
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• LinkeecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFood waste redistribution partnership where unsold products from the day, still consumable, are redistributed to associations helping people in need. Over 2 million products have been redistributed since the partnership began.
• Too Good To GocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPaniers Anti-Gaspi partnership selling unsold daily products at reduced prices to prevent food waste. Over 48,500 baskets have been saved from waste in one year of partnership.
• CombeauminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration offering collagen sticks - pure collagen with no taste or odor, designed to be added to drinks or daily recipes. Integrates wellness into daily routines aligned with Cojean's naturality commitments.
• La Main NoirecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTea and matcha partnership selecting ceremonial bio matcha finely worked and of incredible quality. Collaboration with Maison de Thé d'Uji, historic Japanese tea house founded in 1836 near Kyoto, working with tea master M. Kikuoka.
• RoseUpminorOthersOctober Rose charity partnership supporting women affected by cancer. 1€ donated to RoseUp Paris for each Energy Ball framboise sold during October, funding care, support, nutrition and dietetics workshops.
• SamuSocial de ParisminorOthersWinter Sleeps 2025 solidarity initiative where Cojean donates underwear to SamuSocial de Paris for each soup purchased on Mondays and Fridays during December, distributed to people in great precarity.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Bagelstein: French QSR chain focused on bagels and quick-service offerings. Competes for the same urban lunch traffic with similar price-to-quality positioning and footprint across Paris business districts.
• Exki: Closest direct competitor - a French healthy fast-casual chain offering salads, soups, and grain bowls in similar urban professional locations. Operates comparable dine-in, take-away, and corporate catering channels with an analogous health-conscious positioning.
• Prêt à Manger: International healthy fast-casual chain with Paris locations. Direct competitor in sandwich/salad/juice offerings with similar quality-conscious positioning and corporate catering business.
• Eat Salad: French salad-focused fast-casual chain with strong Parisian footprint. Competes directly for the same health-conscious urban professional lunch customer with a similar format of customizable salads and bowls.
• Pokawa: French poké bowl fast-casual chain with significant Paris presence. Direct competitor in the healthy lunch segment targeting the same demographic with similar order-customization and click-and-collect delivery proposition.
• Jour: French healthy fast-casual chain offering salads, warm bowls, and seasonal menus. Comparable concept targeting similar urban professional customers with dine-in and takeaway formats.

Broad incumbents

• Sushi Shop: Large French QSR/sushi chain competing for healthy lunch and takeaway occasions. While cuisine differs, comparable footprint, delivery/click-and-collect infrastructure, and urban professional target base.
• Big Mamma: Large French fast-casual/Italian restaurant group. While not exclusively healthy, Big Mamma competes for the same Parisian lunch and dinner traffic with comparable price points and dine-in experience quality.
• Starbucks: Global coffee and light-food incumbent with significant Parisian footprint. Competes for breakfast, coffee, and casual lunch occasions and serves as a benchmark for branded café chain economics.

Regional players

• Maison Pradier: French healthy/salad-focused foodservice operator with presence in Paris and other French cities. Comparable menu philosophy (seasonal salads, balanced meals) and corporate catering business model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/cojeanrestaurants
• Facebookfacebook.com/cojeanrestaurants
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cojean

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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