Home Chef is a Chicago, Illinois-based meal kit and food delivery company that delivers pre-portioned ingredients and recipes to subscribers weekly in the United States. According to the company it delivers three million meals monthly to its subscribers.
On May 24, 2018, Kroger announced they were acquiring Home Chef for $200 million with an additional $500 million in incentives if certain targets are met by Home Chef. The acquisition closed during the end of June 2018 and the meal kits will begin to be stocked at Kroger stores in the summer of 2018.
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Overview
Home Chef is a meal delivery service that provides a box of pre-portioned fresh ingredients directly to consumers that are ready to cook. 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 15 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". New York Observer. 5 January 2016.
- "Are meal-kit delivery services worth the cost? We tried seven". St. Paul Pioneer Press.
External links
- Official website
Source of article : Wikipedia
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