Shared Personal Chef Service

A new way to access great food.

Your Monthly Subscription

Your journey with us begins by choosing a monthly commitment level that works for your household. Starting at $50 per month, your subscription gives you access to our full range of offerings, with the flexibility to distribute your monthly commitment however you choose - ordering different items each week, varying quantities based on your changing needs, or even concentrating your orders during specific weeks of the month.

To help establish a strong foundation during our launch phase, we ask for an initial six-month commitment. This allows us to build reliable relationships with local producers and ensure consistent work for our chef-owners.

During our limited phase, you'll receive an e-gift card loaded with your payment amount plus any earned bonuses. Use this to shop our online store, selecting from our weekly offerings of prepared meals, baked goods, and pre-prepped ingredients.

Getting Your Food

We've designed our distribution system to be convenient while strengthening community connections. Our primary pickup locations are local businesses you may already visit – cafes, community centers, and markets that share our vision of a better food system.

During our limited phase, we'll also offer van service at specific locations, creating pickup points near where you live and work. While this service will have limited time windows, it allows us to test and refine our distribution approach.

We will be exploring partnerships with local delivery services to bring your order from our pickup locations to your door for those who need home delivery. These same services could potentially collect your empty containers, returning them to your pickup location for sanitization and reuse. We'll share more details about home delivery options as these partnerships develop.

Simple Container Returns

Every pickup location also serves as a container collection point. Simply return your clean containers during your next pickup, or drop them off at any time during business hours. Our team regularly collects these returns, ensuring they're properly sanitized before their next use.

This approach embodies our commitment to thoughtful resource use - finding opportunities to collaborate that create value for everyone involved. When you pick up your order from a local café, specialty shop, or community space, you're helping support multiple local businesses with a single transaction.

Making It Work for You

We believe in transparent pricing and fair value. When you choose to pay through ACH bank transfer, you'll receive a 2% discount on your commitment. This reflects the actual savings in processing fees compared to credit cards – another example of how we pass efficiencies directly back to you. Additional discounts are available at higher commitment levels – just another way we're working to make good food more accessible.

Your monthly payment is converted into an account balance, with any earned discounts added to your available funds. You have 60 days to use your monthly balance, giving you flexibility to order more in some weeks and less in others.

If any balance remains unused after 60 days, it automatically converts to a donation supporting food access in our community. You'll receive an annual donation receipt for tax purposes, knowing your commitment continues to support wellbeing even when your own needs fluctuate.

Making your Orders

Pre-Order System: Better For Everyone

Our one-week advance pre-order system is a key way we keep costs lower while improving quality. This approach allows us to:

  • Work directly with farmers to harvest ingredients to order, eliminating waste from overharvesting

  • Purchase exactly the quantity of ingredients needed for confirmed orders

  • Enable our chef-owners to plan their time efficiently without idle hours

  • Avoid the costs of maintaining "open hours" with staff waiting for walk-in customers

By reducing waste in both ingredients and time, we create a more efficient system where the savings can be passed directly to you while ensuring the highest quality food and fair compensation for everyone involved.

Community Pickup Locations: Smart Collaboration

Our partnership with local businesses as pickup locations represents another way we're creating efficiencies that benefit everyone:

  • Maximizing Existing Resources: These businesses already have facilities, staff, and operating hours - our partnership helps them generate additional revenue and foot traffic without significant added costs.

  • Extended Access Windows: Unlike dedicated pickup points with limited hours, these partnerships offer you much wider pickup windows - often the entire business day of our partners.

  • Community Strengthening: Every pickup creates an opportunity to support another local business, creating a network of mutual benefit throughout our community.

  • Reduced Overall Costs: By sharing infrastructure instead of building our own pickup facilities, we keep our overhead lower while providing better service - savings we pass directly to you.

Our Pricing Approach: Fair Value for Everyone

While our service isn't designed to be the cheapest option available, we make a fundamental commitment to fair pricing and complete transparency. Every dollar you spend supports a system designed to bring wellbeing to everyone involved – from the farmers who grow our ingredients to the chef-owners who prepare your food.

Our Value Commitments

Fair Compensation

Everyone involved in preparing the food we bring to your table receives fair compensation for their work. This includes our chef-owners and all cooperative staff.

Quality Ingredients

We source highest-quality, primarily local ingredients from farmers and producers who share our commitment to environmental stewardship and nutritional excellence. These partnerships not only support human and environmental health but also recognize and fairly value the expertise, care, and dedication our local food producers bring to their craft.

Community Centered

By prioritizing local sourcing, distribution partnerships, and community collaboration, we ensure that the money spent with us largely stays within our local economy. When you choose our service, your dollars support not just our cooperative, but a network of local farms, pickup location partners, and other community businesses - creating a multiplier effect that strengthens our entire local food ecosystem.

Sustainable Operations

Our model and pricing support efficient, environmentally conscious operations, including our reusable container program and waste reduction efforts.

Waste Elimination

Our pre-order system eliminates multiple forms of waste that drive up costs in traditional food businesses:

  • Ingredient waste: Working directly with farmers to harvest exactly what we need

  • Preparation waste: Chefs know exactly what needs to be prepared each week

  • Labor waste: No staff standing idle during slow periods

  • Operational waste: No expensive storefront space being underutilized

These waste reduction strategies allow us to offer higher quality food at reasonable prices while ensuring everyone in our supply chain is fairly compensated.

Smart Systems and Transparency

We're committed to using smart systems and technology to keep our operations as efficient as possible. As we achieve greater efficiency, we'll pass these benefits back to our community, working to make high-quality, ethically-produced food accessible to more people.

When you choose options that help lower our costs, we pass the benefits of those savings along to you. This is why we offer discounts for ACH payments and perks for higher commitment levels - these choices help us operate more efficiently and sustainably.

Our transparent pricing means you'll always understand exactly how your money supports the entire system. We believe this transparency is essential to building trust and demonstrating the value we create together.