CAISSE DES ECOLES DU 17E ARRONDISSEMENT

What CAISSE DES ECOLES DU 17E ARRONDISSEMENT does

Caisse des Écoles du 17ème arrondissement de Paris is an autonomous public local institution (établissement public local autonome) operating under the authority of the Paris municipality and administered by a 36-member management committee chaired by the Mayor of the 17th arrondissement, Geoffroy Boulard. The organization holds the monopoly on school catering for all public schools within the 17th arrondissement, serving approximately 11,000 meals per day across 50 establishments, including all public maternelles and élémentaires, 5 public colleges, and 1 professional high school, plus holiday leisure centers. In 2025, it produced and served over 1.7 million meals, with operations distributed across six central kitchens (Brière, Buffet, Champerret, Courcelles, Pisan) all built or fully restructured within the last decade and operating under hot-catering principles from 6:30 AM daily.

The core service is built around in-house food preparation from raw ingredients, with menus developed by an in-house professional chef and dietitian and reviewed against PNNS guidelines. The kitchen operation sources approximately 47% organic products, with 50% of products carrying quality labels (AB, Label Rouge, MSC, Bleu Blanc Coeur), no palm oil, no GMO, and 50% of supply sourced within a 250km radius plus western French regions. Family-facing operations are supported by the online Espace Familles portal (espace-citoyens.net/cde17) for registration and payment, with 10-tier pricing structured around the CAF family quotient and set uniformly by Paris Council across all arrondissements. The organization also runs educational workshops in schools on food themes and maintains a supplementary meal service for leisure centers during school holidays.

The business model is a hybrid of municipal subsidies and user fees. Annual shareholder membership fees are symbolic (€3.05), with benefactor membership at €305+, while the bulk of operating funding flows through municipal budget allocation and school meal fees set by the Paris Council. There is no conventional commercial revenue model: the institution is non-investable in the PE/VC sense, with no funding rounds, no M&A activity, and no expansion beyond the geographic boundary of the 17th arrondissement. Technology is non-proprietary (standard WordPress stack, OVH hosting, PLG Productions development), and the operating model is fundamentally a regulated public-service mandate rather than a competitive enterprise.

Name

CAISSE DES ECOLES DU 17E ARRONDISSEMENT

Legal name

Caisse des Ecoles du 17ème arrondissement de Paris

Website

https://cde17.fr

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Caisse des Écoles du 17ème arrondissement de Paris is a public municipal institution that holds a monopoly on school catering for all public schools in the 17th arrondissement, preparing and serving approximately 11,000 meals daily across 50 establishments from six central kitchens.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public School Catering Services

NAICS

Food Service Contractors (72231), Elementary and Secondary Schools (61111)

SIC

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

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDALADAC

Catering & Events Food Service

Education/Student Services & Campus Operations/Dining, Food Services & Campus Retail

SECONDARYEDAEAEAG

Central Kitchen & Commissary Operations (Batch Cooking, Satellite Serving)

Education/Education Facilities & Support Services/School Food Services & Catering (Cafeteria Operations)

SECONDARYBPADAJAD

School Feeding & Child Nutrition Programs

Business & Public Services/International Organizations & Development/Food Security & Nutrition Programs

SECONDARYEDALADAJ

Nutrition, Dietary Management & Allergen/Accommodation Services

Education/Student Services & Campus Operations/Dining, Food Services & Campus Retail

SECONDARYEDAEAEAF

Meal Distribution, Serving Lines & Point-of-Sale (Cafeteria Service)

Education/Education Facilities & Support Services/School Food Services & Catering (Cafeteria Operations)

SECONDARYEDAEAEAC

Meal Program Compliance & Administration (NSLP/SBP, Reimbursements)

Education/Education Facilities & Support Services/School Food Services & Catering (Cafeteria Operations)

Keywords

• School meal services
• Public catering
• School cafeteria management
• Institutional food service
• School nutrition programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. School meal fees: Revenue from school meal services based on family CAF quotient with 10 different tariff levels. Fees are voted by Paris Council and applicable across all arrondissements.
2. Membership fees: Annual membership fee of 3.05 euros for shareholders. Benefactor membership requires minimum payment of 100 times the annual subscription fee (305+ euros).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The organization prepares and serves daily hot meals to approximately 11,000 pupils across 50 public schools in the 17th arrondissement of Paris (maternelles, élémentaires, five colleges, and one professional high school), with hot liaison catering from six central kitchens. It also runs school vacation/holiday-centre meals, food-education workshops, online family registration via the Espace Familles portal, and a tiered tariff schedule voted by the Paris Council based on family quotient.

Product overview

Caisse des Écoles du 17ème arrondissement de Paris operates as a public institution managing school catering services for the 17th arrondissement of Paris. The organization runs a single integrated catering platform consisting of: the core Restauration Scolaire service that prepares and delivers approximately 11,000 daily meals across 50 schools; 6 central production kitchens; the online Espace Familles registration and payment portal; downloadable menu and allergen information services; educational food workshops in schools; holiday and leisure center meal services; and recruitment operations. The service follows a seasonal menu philosophy with emphasis on organic, local, and sustainably-sourced ingredients. All offerings are centered around the school's meal service mission rather than distinct software products or modules.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Service de Restauration Scolaire (Cantine) Core school catering service preparing and serving daily lunches (and snacks for maternelle and leisure centers) to children in the 17th arrondissement's public primary schools, five public colleges, and one professional high school.
• Espace Familles Portal Family-facing online portal for school meal registration, payment management, and account access (hosted at espace-citoyens.net/cde17).
• Centres de Loisirs et Vacances Scolaires Holiday and leisure-centre meal service providing meals during school vacations, including for vacation stays for children aged 6-12 and leisure nature centers in the Bois de Boulogne.
• Central Kitchen Production (6 Cuisines Centrales) Production infrastructure: six central kitchens preparing meals daily that are transported hot to 50 establishments across the arrondissement.
• Ateliers Éducatifs (Educational Workshops) Educational in-school workshops covering milk/dairy products, seasonal fruits and vegetables, and food production themes for pupils.
• Gestion des Allergènes (Allergen Management) Allergen-aware menu planning and PAI protocols enabling individualized reception for children with food allergies, plus downloadable allergen lists.
• Menus à Télécharger Downloadable weekly menu PDFs and allergen information provided on the public website.

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• PLG ProductionsminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerWebsite development company that designed and maintains the organization's website. Located at 136 rue d'Avron, 75017 Paris, France.
• SCIC BIO d'Ile de FrancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember of this grouping of organic farmers in the Ile-de-France region. Supports the organization's commitment to sourcing organic produce from regional farmers.
• Various local suppliers (Bretagne, Pays de Loire, Poitou-Charentes)coreOthersPoultry from Brittany, Pays de la Loire, or Poitou-Charentes; pork from Brittany; beef from Normandy; charcuterie from Sarthe; dairy products from Cotentin; bread made with Ile-de-France wheat flour.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Api Restauration: France-focused school and municipal catering contractor specializing in collective restaurant management, with strong presence in the education segment. Direct comparable in terms of customer type, scale, and menu philosophy (organic, local sourcing).
• Convivio: French contract caterer focused on school, municipal, and corporate catering, with commitments to local and organic sourcing. Operates with a similar central kitchen + satellite distribution model and is a credible alternative operator for the same customer segment.
• Elior Group: Major French-headquartered contract caterer operating in school and educational catering across France and internationally. Provides comparable institutional meal services to schools and could in principle bid for or replace the Cde17 franchise under a privatization scenario.
• Restoria: French regional contract caterer focused on school, healthcare, and corporate clients with strong organic/sustainable positioning. Directly comparable in production model and quality differentiation strategy.
• Caisse des Écoles du 16e arrondissement de Paris: Another adjacent arrondissement public school catering establishment with identical legal structure (établissement public local autonome) and operating model. Useful peer for benchmarking scale, menus, and parent engagement practices.
• Caisse des Écoles du 18e arrondissement de Paris: Sister public institution performing identical school catering for the adjacent 18th arrondissement under the same Paris Council tariff regime. The most direct functional peer — same institutional structure, same customer base type, same pricing model.
• Ansamble (Brigade de cuisine): School catering specialist in France with emphasis on home-style cooking, local supply chains, and dietary accommodation. Closely comparable in operating philosophy and target customer (French public schools).

Broad incumbents

• Sodexo: Global food services and facilities management incumbent with a large school and university catering segment in France. Operates at much greater scale and across geographies, making it both a comparable in function and a potential privatization threat to public school catering monopolies.
• Compass Group: International contract caterer with significant school catering operations. Comparable in service model (centralized production, institutional meal delivery) but serves a much broader customer base across multiple countries.

Regional players

• Ville de Paris (Direction de la Restauration Scolaire): Municipal-level coordination authority for school catering across all Paris arrondissements. Sets tariffs, nutritional standards, and quality policy that all Caisses des Écoles must follow — effectively the parent regulator and a key stakeholder rather than a competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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