The Ultimate Guide Of 52 F&B Social Enterprises In Singapore
While Singapore is home to notable unicorn tech startups, it is also a place where social enterprises are alive and well. According to the ranking by ACRA, Singapore ranks third among 190 economies in the “Starting a Business” indicator, and this is evident in the increasing number of startups across all industries, emerging now and then. As we work towards becoming a more progressive nation by reducing the social inequality in our society, many businesses have reinvented new ways of doing businesses by having an element of social purpose to it.
We have compiled 52 F&B social enterprises in Singapore and categorised them into bakeries, cafes, restaurants, snack and dessert shops, and grocery wholesalers and retailers. Do give them some support by making a purchase from them -- and you will get to eat food, do good, and feel good -- all at once. Isn’t that great?
Bakeries
1.Oh My Goodness!
Social Enterprise | @ohmygoodnesssg
Oh My Goodness! is an e-bakery that produces gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free baked goods and hires ex-offenders and PWIDs
For those interested in placing an order, you can either do so online via their website. Delivery or pick up option is available from these locations!
Oh My Goodness!: Website | Facebook
2.Bake A Joy
Social Enterprise | @bakeajoyshop
Bake A Joy is a bakery that provides customised cakes, cupcakes and dessert catering, and provides disadvantaged women, single moms or vulnerable youth with flexi-work employment and empower them with baking skills and financial independence.
For those interested in placing an order, do note to place an order 2 weeks in advance as all their creations are hand made. You may place your order online via their website or drop them an email or call. Delivery is available!
Bake a joy: 2 Mandai Link #04–06 Singapore 728664 | Website | Facebook
3.Crunchy Teeth
Social Enterprise | @crunchy__teeth
Crunchy Teeth is a bakery that employs autistic youths and adults.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website. Delivery or pick up option is available!
Crunchy Teeth: 156 Macpherson Road, #01–01 PSL Industrial Building, Singapore 348528 | Website | Facebook
4.WILDNESS Asia
Social Enterprise | @wildnessasia
WILDNESS Asia is a bakery tat sells organic chocolates, pralines, cookies, biscuits, tea and manuka honey while partnering APSN to provide training to special needs adults.
You may find products from Wildness Asia at these locations.
WILDNESS Asia: Website | Facebook
5.Ugly Cake Shop
Social Enterprise | @uglycakeshop
Ugly Cake Shop is a bakery, cafe and cake shop that bakes delicious, artisanal cakes locally and part of their revenue goes to feeding hungry kids in Timor-Leste.
For those interested in placing an order, you can either do so online via their website. Delivery or pick up option is available!
Ugly Cake Shop: 535 Kallang Bahru, GB Point, #01–06, Singapore 339351 | Website | Facebook
6.Flour Power
Social Enterprise | @flourpowersg
Flour Power is a bakery that aims to empower individuals with special needs to be trained in baking and enable them to support themselves through employment.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their Facebook page.
Flour Power: Blk 247 Hougang Ave 3 #01–44 Singapore | Facebook
7.MINDS Social enterprise
Social Enterprise
MINDS Social enterprise sells bakes and crafts items
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so via their website.
MINDS Social enterprise: Website
Cafes
1.My Nonna’s
Social Enterprise | @my_nonnas
My Nonna’s is a restaurant serving home-style Italian and international food that empowers individuals with special needs by training and employing them with cooking skills.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website. Check out their locations here!
2.Foreword coffee
Social Enterprise | @forewordcoffeeroasters
Foreword coffee runs cafes, coffee workshops, training mobile barista carts, coffee subscription for offices, learning journeys and sharings and coffee door gifts. It strives to inspire and empower individuals with autism, intellectual disability, physical disability, deafness, and mental health conditions.
For those interested in placing an order, you can either do here. Or check out their location here!
Foreword coffee: Website | Facebook
3.Bettr Barista
Social Enterprise | @bettr.group
Bettr Barista is a cafe and regionally-recognised academy providing professional specialty coffee education. They provide training programmes for marginalised women and youth, by nurturing direct and sustainable trade across its supply chain, and by building socially conscious communities wherever they operate.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so here. Delivery or pick up option is available!
Bettr Barista: Website | Facebook
4.Professor brawn cafe
Social Enterprise | @professorbrawn
Professor brawn cafe is a cafe that provides job and social integration opportunities to people with special needs and the disadvantaged in society.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website. Find them at these locations.
Professor brawn cafe: Website | Facebook
5.The Social Space
Social Enterprise | @thesocialspace.sg
The Social Space is a socially conscious multi-concept store, featuring a Tea Bar & Café, a fair trade retail area and a nail salon, all promoting a greater awareness for sustainability, an appreciation for providence, and more accessible conscious living. The mission of The Social Space is also to provide a platform for individuals who face a higher barrier to employment opportunities due to circumstances beyond their control, and equip them with varied skills sets that will allow them self-sufficiency in the long term.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website. Delivery or pick up option is available!
The Social Space: 333 Kreta Ayer Road, #01–14, Singapore 080333 | Website | Facebook
6.Seeds Cafe
Social Enterprise
Seeds Cafe is a cafe set up by Rainbow Centre which empowers and employs individuals with developmental disabilities.
For those interested in placing an order, you can either do so via Grab or Foodpanda. Self pick up option is available! Check out their menu here.
Seeds Cafe: 501 Margaret Drive Singapore 149306 | Facebook
7.Crossings Café
Social Enterprise | @crossingscafe
Crossings Café is a cafe serving food at affordable prices with all their profits channelled to charitable causes. It provides employment opportunities and personal development for the disadvantaged in collaboration with graduates from Assumption Pathway School.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website. Delivery or pick up option is available!
Crossings Café: Catholic Centre 55 Waterloo StreetSingapore 187954 | Website | Facebook
8.Linas cafe
Social Enterprise | @linascafesg
Linas cafe is a Muslim-owned halal cafe that aims to create a safe haven for families with ASD kids to dine in.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website. Delivery or pick up option is available!
Linas cafe: 7 Jln Pisang Singapore 199074| Website | Facebook
9.Ashraf’s cafe
Social Enterprise
Ashraf’s cafe is a cafe that aims to support individuals with special needs by helping them to achieve long term paid employment and live a fulfilling and independent life.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their Facebook page. Delivery or pick up option is available!
Ashraf’s cafe :168 Changi Rd, Fragrance Building #01–01/02 Singapore 419730 | Facebook
10.The Caffeine Experience
Social Enterprise | @theofficialtce
The caffeine experience is a cafe and takeaway kiosk offering drinks (e.g. coffee and tea) and food (e.g. pastry, cakes and finger food) while hiring ex-offender and ex- drug abuser as baristas.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website. Delivery or pick up option is available!
The caffeine experience: 10 Hospital Boulevard, #01–04, Outram Community Hospital, Singapore 168582 | Website | Facebook
11.Art Bar
Social Enterprise | @theartfacultysg
Art Bar is a cafe located within Enabling Village that provides the best of arts, crafts, and creative experiences.
Art Bar: The Art Faculty By Pathlight, 01–07 Enabling Village, 20 Lengkok Bahru | Website | Facebook
12.Metta Cafe
Social Enterprise | @mettacafe1
Metta Café aims to empower those with mild intellectual disability and/or autism to achieve self-reliance and create future employment opportunities through Metta cafe’s comprehensive training and development programmes.
Support them at their location below. Delivery via FoodPanda/Grab or pick up option is available!
Matta Cafe: 32 Simei Street 1, Level 1 Metta Building, Singapore 529950 | Website | Facebook
13.APSN Mystical cafe
Social Enterprise | @apsn.sg
APSN (Association for Persons with Special Needs ) Mystical cafe provide learning opportunities to trainees at the APSN Centre for Adults (CFA).
Support them at their location below.
APSN Mystical cafe: 11 Jln Ubi, #01–31 Block 4, Singapore 409074 |Website | Facebook
14.Bizlink Cafe
Social Enterprise
Bizlink Cafe is an F&B social enterprise that empowers disadvantaged individuals such as those recovering from psychiatric conditions.
For those interested in placing an order, you can either do so online via their website or the location below. Delivery or pick up option is available!
Bizlink Cafe: 10 Buangkok View Buangkok Green Medical Park Singapore 539747 | Website
Restaurants
1.Ifood
Social Enterprise
iFoodoperates 30 Cafes and Restaurant in closed communities such as in learning institutions, hospitals and government buildings. Currently, 85% of their stage is above the age of 55. They aim to build a supportive workplace for the elderly with flexible work arrangements.
Visit their website to view their F&B Operator & supplier.
Ifood : Website
2.Pope Jai Thai
Social Enterprise | @popejaithai
Pope Jai Thai is a restaurant that provides employment opportunities for people with special needs, physically disabled and the disadvantaged.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their Whatsapp @+65 9642 4539.
Pope Jai Thai: 2 Orchard Link, #03–03 Scape, Singapore 237978 | Website | Facebook
3.Wangz F&B (Jollibean franchise)
Social Enterprise | @jollibean_sg
Wangz F&B(Wangz) is a Jollibean franchisee that plans to hire the marginalized such as persons with disabilities (PWDs) and persons from low-income as counter and kitchen staff.
Find them at these locations.
Jollibean: 1 Coleman Street #10–06 The Adelphi Singapore 179803 | Website | Facebook
4.Five & 2
Social Enterprise | @fiveand2.co
Five &2 is a bistro offering alfresco dining and feast on Asian-fusion creations. They employ the marginalised such as individuals with disabilities and ex-inmates. Five & 2 works with family welfare organisation, and invites underprivileged families for a nutritious meal.
Check out their menu here!
Five & 2: Punggol Park 97 Hougang Avenue 8 Singapore 538792 | Website | Facebook
5.Food For Thought
Social Enterprise | @ffthought
Food For Thought is a restaurant that supports Living Water International and Food Bank Singapore. It is a part of The Thought Collective, a group of social businesses whose mission is to build up social and emotional capital in Singapore.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online here. Delivery or pick up option is available!
Food For Thought: 93 Stamford Road #01–04/05 National Museum of Singapore, Singapore 178897 | Website | Facebook
6.Dignity Kitchen
Social Enterprise |@Dignity Kitchen
Dignity Kitchen is the first hawker training school for disabled and disadvantaged people. They specialised in structured street food training, food hygiene and safety within a real-world environment. The company established Dignity Kitchen™ and Dignity Mama run by the differently-abled and disadvantaged, running a Train-and-Place programme for adults with special needs.
Dignity Kitchen: Blk 267 Serangoon Avenue 3 #02–02 Singapore 550267 | Website | Facebook
7.Soul Food Enterprise
Social Enterprise | @soulfoodenterprise
Soul Food Enterprise is a restaurant and food production business with the mission to equip, employ and empower persons who are differently-abled, and their slogan is "Made by Many Hands". It provides a platform to contribute as well as build confidence and a sense of independence so that their employees are included meaningfully as dignified, strong and productive members of our nation.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website. Find them at these locations.
Soul Food Enterprise : 20 Lengkok Bahru #01–10 Singapore 159053 | Website | Facebook
8.IronSupperClub
Social Enterprise | @ironsupperclub
IronSupperClub is a restaurant dedicated to enabling individuals with disabilities (PWDs).
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website.
IronSupperClub: 9 Jalan Wangi Singapore 349354 | Website | Facebook
9.Soon Huat Bak Kut Teh
Social Enterprise | @soonhuatbkt
Soon Huat Bak Kut Teh is a restaurant with a vision of giving ex-offenders and former drug-abusers a second chance by employing them.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website.
Soon Huat Bak Kut Teh: 302 Bedok Rd Singapore 469460 | Website | Facebook
10.Kimchi Korean Restaurant
Social Enterprise | @kimchi_sg
Kimchi Korean Restaurant aims to empower NKF patients by employing and providing them with flexible working hours so that they have the financial means for their kidney dialysis treatment.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their Facebook page.
Kimchi Korean Restaurant:3 Temasek Boulevard, #02–387, Suntec City, Singapore 038983 | Facebook
11.Eighteen Chefs
Social Enterprise | @eighteenchefs
Eighteen Chefs is a western halal-certified restaurant chain that hires troubled youths and people with conviction backgrounds
For those interested in placing an order, you can either do so via Foodpanda or Grab food. Find them at these locations.
12.Nox
Social Enterprise | @noxdineinthedark
Dine in the dark is a restaurant that hires blind or visually impaired individuals
For those interested in experiencing dining in the dark, do note that pre-booking is required via here.
Nox: 269, Beach Road Singapore 199546 | Website | Facebook
13.The Assumption Restaurant for Training
Social Enterprise
The Assumption Restaurant for Training (The ART), is a training restaurant provides a realistic working environment for APS’ students to practice the skills and knowledge learnt
For those looking to head to The Assumption Restaurant for Training, please visit their location.
The Assumption Restaurant for Training: 30 Cashew Road Singapore 679697 | Website | Facebook
Catering
1.Yoon’s Traditional Teochew Kueh
Social Enterprise | @yoonstraditionalteochewkueh
Yoon’s Traditional Teochew Kueh is a cultural concept studio offering lunch and/or Kueh High Tea packages and rental of premises for corporate events that provide employment and rehabilitation to beneficiary employees.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website. Delivery or pick up option is available!
Yoon’s Traditional Teochew Kue: Jun Jie Industrial Building, 153 Kampong Ampat, #07–05, 368326 | Website | Facebook
2.Al Husna Catering
Social Enterprise | @alhusnacatering.sg
Al Husna Catering is a caterer of Malay/indian food that provides employment opportunities to the less privileged.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website.
Al Husna Catering: Facebook
3.Saffrons Restaurant
Social Enterprise | @saffronssg
Saffrons Restaurant is a F&B outlet offering catering services, food distribution and packaging that employs less abled, single mothers, seniors and those from needy families.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website. Check out their locations here.
Saffrons Restaurant: Website | Facebook
4.BLISS Restaurant
Social Enterprise | @bliss_restaurant
BLISS Restaurant offers event management services, corporate pantry, halal & non-halal catering services, that employs the marginalised groups
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website. Delivery or pick up option is available!
Bliss Catering / BLISS Restaurant: 1 Old Parliament Lane, The Arts House, #01–02, 179429 | Website | Facebook
5.DON8URI
Social Enterprise | @don8uri
DON8URI offers F&B live station catering pop-up booths with gourmet donburi curated by deaf advocates at companies in Singapore for corporate events.
For those interested in booking them for an event, you can do so online via their website.
Snack And Dessert Shops
1.Sng Kee
Social Enterprise | @sngkeesg
Sng kee is an ice cream shop that makes their ice cream without artificial flavorings and coloring. The aim to empower the deaf by employing them as well as providing them with the opportunity to teach ice cream making classes through simple sign languages.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so via Facebook.
Sng kee: Facebook
2.The Dancing Elephant
Social Enterprise | @dancingelephanticecream
The Dancing Elephant is an ice cream shop that donates to Wildlife SOS. Their ice cream is fresh and free from preservatives, artificial colours and artificial flavours.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website.
Tusker/ dancing elephant ice cream: 20 Ah Hood Road, Zhongshan Mall, Unit #01–12 Singapore 329984| Website | Facebook
3.Boxgreen
Social Enterprise | @boxgreenco
Boxgreen is a snack retailer that sustainably sourcing for the best ingredients to make their products.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website.
Boxgreen: Gambas@Proxima #08–14 50 Gambas Crescent 757022 | Website | Facebook
4.Brice
Social Enterprise
Brice sells rice puffs snacks that aims to create a sustainable source of funding for Phrao’s Children’s Home in Thailand, Chiang Mai by leveraging on available skills and resources in Chiang Mai.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so here.
Brice:Website
5.Tea Ideas
Social Enterprise | @teaideas.sg
Tea Ideas is a gourmet tea company that hires the Long Term Unemployed (ex-PMEs).
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website.
Tea Ideas: 201 Henderson Road #03–28 Apex@Henderson S, 159545 | Website | Facebook
Grocery wholesalers and retailers
1.My Gentle Foods
Social Enterprise
My Gentle Food is an e-wholesaler that sells nutritious puréed mould food for elderly and dysphagic patients.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website.
My Gentle Food: 10 Senoko Way, Singapore 758031 | Website | Facebook
2.UnPackt SG
Social Enterprise | @unpackt.sg
UnPackt SG is Singapore’s first zero-waste bulk store with the mission to build a green and mindful Singapore, one community at a time. Their products range from food, beauty & personal care,lifestyle & homeware.
For those interested in placing an order, you can check out their stock list via Facebook.
UnPackt SG : 6 Jln Kuras, Singapore 577724 |Facebook
3.Ugly Food
Social Enterprise | @uglyfoodco
Ugly Food is a grocery and retail shop that strives to maximise the value of food resources and to offer healthy and delectable food products.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website.
Ugly Food: 8 Somapah Rd, #01–202 Building 2, Singapore 487372 | Website | Facebook
4.Kindness Mart
Social Enterprise | @kindnessmart
Kindness Mart is a grocery shop that sells groceries and basic necessities that supports and aids physically and mentally challenged individuals, elderly persons and low income families.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website or their app.
Kindness Mart: 705 Sims Dr, #06–05 Shun Li Industrial Complex, Singapore 387384 |Website | Facebook
5.GobblerCo
Social Enterprise | @gobblershop
GobblerCo is a grocery shop that helps marginalised communities and “sandwiched population” through low-cost provisions, education and partnerships.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so online via their website.
Gobbler5 / GobblerShop: 600 Sin Ming Ave 57573 | Website | Facebook
6.Hangguk Kitchen
Social Enterprise | @hanguk_kitchen
Korean Food Wholesaler & Supplier that employs underprivileged and NKF patients
For those interested in placing an order, you can either do so online here or via Foodpanda / Grab / GrabMart.
Hangguk Kitchen: 2 Senoko South Road #05–03 Singapore 758096 | Website | Facebook
7.Edible garden city
Social Enterprise | @ediblegardencity
Edible Garden City is a social enterprise that is pushing the urban farming movement in Singapore, while providing employment opportunities for marginalised communities.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so via their website.
Edible garden city 60 Jalan Penjara, Singapore 149375 | Website | Facebook
8.The Little Rice Company
Social Enterprise | @thelittlericecompany
The Little Rice Company is a manufacturer that brings quality rice to consumers at affordable prices through responsible farming from seed to harvest — a brand by Golden Sunland.
For those interested in placing an order, you can do so via their website
The Little Rice Company: 100 Beach Road, #33–01, Shaw Tower Singapore 189702 | Website | Facebook
All in all, a little support goes a long way in not just helping the social enterprises, but also helping further and sustain the social cause that they support in the long term. We will be continuously updating this list with any new entries of F&B social enterprise merchants. If you find this useful, please share it around on social media and with your friends and family.
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