A setback we couldn’t plan for.
Our lorry was stolen, leaving us with heavy debt. We had to learn how to manage cash flow and keep the business moving.
THE RUNNINGMEN STORY · SINCE FEBRUARY 2014
What keeps
us running.
First, we ran to your doorstep.
Now, we run towards your biggest moments.
A small delivery project. A rainy night. A feeling we never stopped chasing.
A story about going a little further.SCROLL TO BEGIN
FEBRUARY 2014 · SETAPAK
Before the big days,
there were small steps.
Joel and Andrew were college friends with a simple idea: bring food from nearby hawker stalls to hungry students around TARC, now TARUMT.
With RM200 to get started, meals were ordered by phone and social media. Then came the part that gave us our name.
We ran.
Across the neighbourhood. To the hostels. Up the stairs when waiting for the lift took too long. One delivery, and one smile, at a time.
THE STARTING POINTRM200
A small beginning.
A lot of heart.
A memory from early 2015 · illustratedEARLY 2015
The rain came down.
We kept going.
It was a busy night. Orders were stacking up, the rain was pouring, and there weren’t enough hands to deliver them.
So the team went out. No umbrellas. Both hands carrying meals to the people waiting for them.
Some customers looked surprised. Some offered towels. And in those small moments of kindness, something stayed with us.
The food was the delivery.
The feeling was the reason.
Retold from our team’s account of that night.
25 AUGUST 2015A little project.
A little project.
An official new chapter.
RunningMen was incorporated as a company.
The journey had begun in February 2014. Now, we were making it official.
2017 — 2023
The road wasn’t
a straight line.
Some years opened doors. Others asked us to find a new way through.
Learn. Regroup. Keep going.
A place at a bigger table.
Accenture became our first corporate client in 2018. In 2019, we expanded into catering, discovering what it meant to serve a whole occasion.
When gatherings stopped.
The pandemic brought sales to zero. We adapted with food and grocery delivery, then found new ways to bring people together through virtual events.
Different ways of working. The same desire to deliver a little happiness.
Back together. With room to grow.
Physical celebrations returned. In 2023, we launched our first event space, 1301 by RMC—another way to help people make a moment their own.
THE SAME FEELING. A BIGGER TABLE.
Once, one doorstep.
Now, a room full of smiles.
What we do has grown. What makes it worthwhile hasn’t. Good food, thoughtful care, and the joy of sharing a moment.
It started with food for someone waiting at home.
Then came the joy of serving a whole gathering.
Today, we share that feeling with a whole room.
The same care, through every chapter. Illustrated with a little imagination.
FROM OUR WOW STORIES
The little things
are the big things.
Our WOW Mission gives a name to something we’ve cared about from the start: going a little further to make someone’s day.
A little help at the table.
Sometimes care is as simple as helping a guest peel their prawns. Our team’s stories remind us that hospitality lives in the small things, too.
Making room for little smiles.
Keeping children entertained is one of the ways our team has gone beyond serving food. A happy little guest can make the day brighter for everyone around them.
One more reason to celebrate.
Our WOW stories include buying cakes to surprise clients. A thoughtful gesture can become the part of a celebration someone remembers long after the last plate is cleared.
Moments from our celebration album. Photographs illustrate the spirit of these team stories.
RUNNING INTO THE FUTURE
Life keeps giving us
reasons to celebrate.
A first birthday. A wedding. A team’s hard-earned milestone. Then a new generation, with stories of their own.
Our ambition for RunningMen Celebrations is to be the name you think of for those moments. Through catering, welcoming spaces, and the celebration experiences we’re still dreaming up.
We’re still running.
And you’re why.
RunningMen · Delivering happiness since February 2014.Back to the beginning ↑