Category: Sharing Economy
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Almost a decade ago, back in the early days of the Smart Kitchen Summit (SKS) — the event I created about the future of cooking and food — Ashley Colpaart was nice enough to travel out to Seattle and talk about how shared kitchens, a still niche corner of the food world, fit into the…
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For more than a decade, startups have built online marketplaces in hopes of turning home kitchens into legitimate food businesses. Unfortunately, for most of that time, while demand existed, the regulations permitting these businesses did not. The first serious attempt came more than a decade ago with Josephine, a startup that gave home cooks a…
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Back in 2016, the CEO of Swedish appliance company Electrolux floated the idea of possibly using a sharing economy model for washing machines. “We have a few fun ideas we are testing, like: how about a laundry Uber, where people share their unused laundry time?” Jonas Samuelson said at the time. While Electrolux never did…
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Homemade food marketplace Shef announced today it has raised $8.8 million in seed funding. The round included participation from Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, and M13 with participation from founders and executives from Instacart, TaskRabbit, StubHub, AngelList, Lyft, Airbnb, and Yelp. Shef says that right now, it is focused on expanding its service, which is available…
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Today DishDivvy, an online marketplace for home-cooked meals, officially announced its integration with DoorDash to facilitate food deliveries. Previously, hungry folks who had purchased a meal from a home cook over DishDivvy’s platform had to go and pick up their homemade lasagna/spanikopita/pad thai themselves. Now they have the option to pay a mileage-based delivery fee…
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Talented cooking hobbyists of Utah, you’ve got a new potential side hustle. Yesterday DishDivvy, a marketplace which connects home cooks with hungry neighbors, announced that it had begun operations across Utah. DishDivvy is a mobile app that lets preapproved home cooks sell food to local consumers. The startup helps home cooks get certified and onboarded…
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Come next week there will be a new kitchen in town, but it won’t have any dining room attached. Zuul Kitchens, a ghost kitchen facility that will exist solely for the purpose of helping restaurants fulfill delivery orders, will launch operations in New York City starting in September, according an article from Eater NY. Zuul will…
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When AB-626 (also known as the 2018 Homemade Food Operations Act) passed in California last year it ushered in the start of what we at The Spoon have started calling the Home Cook Economy. Now, home cooks in the Sunshine State are allowed to sell up to 60 meals a week and make up to $50,000…
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Call it uberization, the sharing economy or collaborative consumption, the idea that people may have something others want and can rent or sell a portion of it frictionlessly through online marketplaces has changed the game for industries ranging from hospitality to transportation. Food and cooking is no different. Uber Eats, virtual kitchens and the fast…
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