Home Chef is a Chicago, Illinois-based weekly meal kit and food delivery company that delivers pre-portioned ingredients and recipes to subscribers weekly in the United States. As of February 2017, the company delivers over 2.5 million meals monthly. It has around 800 employees.
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Overview
Home Chef is a meal delivery service that provides a ready-to-cook box of pre-portioned fresh ingredients directly to consumer households. With distribution centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Lithonia, Georgia, Home Chef delivers meals to all of the lower 48 states. Each meal kit comes with recyclable packaging, pre-portioned ingredients and meal instructions. The rotating menu includes up to 13 meals for dinner, and the company also provides a weekly breakfast, lunch, smoothie and fruit basket option. Home Chef has the highest satisfaction rating and the lowest customer churn of companies in the meal kit market.
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History
Founder and CEO, Pat Vihtelic started Home Chef in June 2013. In September 2016, the company raised $40 million in funding from consumer focused private equity fund L Catterton. In late 2017, Home Chef starting selling their products via Walmart, which is in addition to its website.
References
Further reading
- "Home Chef delivers meal kits to those who love to cook, hate to shop". Chicago Tribune.
- "Homemade goodness: Home Chef delivers recipes, ingredients to your doorstep". The Times of Northwest Indiana.
- "We Tried Blue Apron, Hello Fresh and Their 4 Competitors--One Was Clearly the Best". 5 January 2016. New York Observer.
- "Are meal-kit delivery services worth the cost? We tried seven". St. Paul Pioneer Press.
External links
- Official website
Source of article : Wikipedia