[wp_scm_launchpad]
Name: Munchery
One-Liner Pitch: Home-delivered meals from world-class chefs.
Why It's Taking Off: Munchery delivers fresh, affordable dinners prepared daily by professional chefs to the San Francisco Bay area.
Thinking about ordering pizza or chinese food for dinner? For close to the same price, how about freshly-made pacific red snapper with artichoke hearts, instead?
Munchery offers fresh meals prepared daily by local, professional chefs that you can order and have delivered the same day for dinner. With a new menu each day, you can choose from delicious entrees like lemongrass fried chicken or churrasco steak with chimichurri, or from organic, vegetarian, low carb and gluten-free meals.
To make sure your meal it hot for dinner, Munchery’s chefs design and prepare each meal for you to reheat for up to five minutes in an oven or microwave when its delivered to your door. Once you choose an hourly time frame, Munchery will deliver your dinner during that time for a delivery fee of about $4. You can also choose to pick up your meal to waive the delivery charge.
In case you can’t be home during the delivery hours, you can leave a cooler in front of your door and Munchery will place your meal in the cooler. You can follow the chef’s reheating instructions once you get home so that your meal is hot and ready to eat.
Munchery was founded in 2010 and recently raised $3.6 million in funding. The startup now sells between 250 and 500 meals a night, and it earns up to 30% on each meal sold.
Although Munchery is only available in the San Francisco bay area, the company is planning to expand to Los Angeles, Seattle and New York City.