Home Chef

Home Chef
Meal kit company
Headquarters Illinois, Chicago, United States
Area served
United States
Key people
Pat Vihtelic, Founder and CEO
Number of employees
Over 800
Website www.homechef.com

Home Chef is a Chicago, Illinois-based weekly meal kit company that delivers pre-portioned ingredients and recipes to subscribers weekly in the United States.[1] Founder and CEO, Pat Vihtelic started Home Chef in June 2013.[2] As of February 2017, the company delivers over 2.5 million meals monthly.[3]

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 Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago and Lithonia, Georgia, Home Chef is able to deliver its meals to all of the lower 48 states.[4]

Fare

Each meal kit comes with recyclable packaging, pre-portioned ingredients and instructions for meals that can be prepared within 30 to 45 minutes. The rotating menu includes up to 13 meals for dinner. The company also offers a weekly breakfast, smoothie and fruit basket option.[5]

References

  1. Dewey, Sam. "Home Chef cooks up $10M Series A". Built in Chicago. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  2. "Pat Vihtelic". CrunchBase.
  3. "Home Chef, Now the 2nd Biggest Delivery Meal Kit in the US, Moves Into New Wrigley Building Space". Chicago Inno. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  4. Ha, Anthony. "Meal kit service Home Chef raises $40M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  5. Sims, Bob. "Home Chef secures growth capital". Meat and Poultry. Retrieved 14 June 2016.

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