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I enjoy sports and being in the outdoors.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaveh-nemati-1b6205100/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/25b5c2083f72e9fc69bb61cf51fe7a915dd73d2c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Locale Raises $14 Million For Its Curated Food Delivery Platform", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathankeane/2022/05/17/locale-raises-14-million-for-its-curated-food-delivery-platform/?sh=692fc28b51cc", "date": "May 17, 2022" }, { "title": "Locale puts $2M to work helping people discover local cuisine – TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/19/locale-puts-2m-to-work-helping-people-discover-local-cuisine/", "date": "Oct 19, 2021" }, { "title": "Starting a Business During the Pandemic and Joining Y Combinator: | by Jonathan Friedland | Aug, 2021 | Medium", "url": "https://medium.com/@jonathan_68425/starting-a-business-during-the-pandemic-and-joining-y-combinator-9bc49f872290", "date": "Aug 10, 2021" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 88937, "title": "Locale: Unlock 50% more daily energy ⚡️ by optimizing what you eat", "tagline": "Locale delivers meals made with natural ingredients and optimized nutrient ratios — all designed to improve your energy and productivity (California only).", "body": "**TLDR:** After noticing how much my diet impacted my productivity, I spent six months researching and A/B testing different diets to find one that gave me the most energy and mental clarity. Eventually, I found a protocol that worked — not just for me, but for dozens of my closest friends. But I couldn't find the time to cook consistently and no meal service met my standards. So I built my own.\n\n### **Problem ❌**\n\nAs a founder, I never had time to cook, so I’d always settle for Doordash meals that made me feel sluggish and low energy. After doing some research, I realized that most prepared meals have:\n\n* **Low quality and processed ingredients** - produce sprayed with synthetic pesticides and sauces filled with processed ingredients and artificial emulsifiers (neurotoxins that can harm brain function over time)\n* **Unhealthy oils** - full of low-quality vegetable and seed oils, which throw off your Omega 6 to Omega 3 ratio (key to optimal cellular and brain function)\n* **Little to no fiber and protein** – dietary fiber and lean muscle mass are both huge components to regulating blood sugar (critical to sustaining energy levels)\n* **Packaging full of microplastics -** heating food in plastic containers leeches toxic chemicals and disrupts hormones\n\nAfter realizing that the way I eat can have a huge effect on my productivity levels, I started trying out “healthy” meal delivery services. Most tasted bad and claimed to be healthy, but after digging deeper, I realized it was mostly BS marketing with no real nutrition standards to back them up.\n\nThe Blueprint service appeared to be the best option, but after doing more research, I found that they just outsourced their food production to a company that uses seed oils and low-quality ingredients.\n\nEvery service I tried was compromised in some way. **I couldn’t find any options that hit all of the science-based health standards that I cared about and helped me perform my best.**\n\n---\n\n### **Solution 💡**\n\nI spent a long time doing research (and crunching studies with chatGPT) to come up with a strict list of rules for the food that I wanted to eat. Then, I found an experienced chef with over 20 years of fine dining experience and gave him a carefully curated list of approved ingredients for each meal.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88937&key=user_uploads/714052/e2221663-6c7b-4412-91ff-e4f7240f6c40)\n\nThe meals that he created were delicious, and after a few weeks, I started noticing I felt different. **I had more energy throughout the day, felt much less fatigue after a long day of work, and started sleeping better.**\n\nMy friends asked to join in and get meals from my chef, and many began to notice the same benefits that I did. That’s when I decided to offer this as a service to everyone.\n\n### **Our Ask ❤️**\n\nWe want Locale to be the best delivery service for people who care about their mental performance and long-term health.\n\n* **Have you found any nutritional hacks that have helped you be more productive?** Tell us what worked (or didn't). Feel free to email me at [chris@shoplocale.com](mailto:chris@shoplocale.com).\n* **Want to try Locale and live in the SF Bay Area or LA?** Check it out [here](https://shoplocale.com/?auto-code=YCLAUNCH2FREEMEALS). We’ll include 2 free meals on your first order.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N8T-locale-unlock-50-more-daily-energy-by-optimizing-what-you-eat", "votes": 158, "created_at": "2025-03-25T13:54:05.752Z" }, { "id": 73795, "title": "Locale: Office lunches designed for startups", "tagline": "We partner with local restaurants to offer heat-and-eat meals that last the whole week in your fridge", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\n**It’s time-consuming and expensive to coordinate food delivery every day for office lunches** so we partnered with local restaurants to offer heat-and-eat meals that last the whole week in your office fridge. Your employees place one group order the prior week and all meals arrive Monday morning. No need to coordinate daily orders and deliveries. Employees can grab meals from the fridge and microwave for 1 min whenever they’re hungry.\n\n### **Who we are**\n\n👋🏻 Hi everyone! We’re Chris and Jonny with Locale. We both grew up in the Bay Area and love good food & supporting local restaurants!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73795&key=user_uploads/714052/de350a63-3fbb-475f-a8d5-0732dd859bcb)\n\n_Chris (left) and Jonny (right)._\n\n### **😡 The problem**\n\nWhen we started working in person this year we tried dozens of lunch services and couldn't find a good option for startups with <20 employees\n\n* It’s a pain to coordinate daily orders and daily deliveries for employee lunches\n* Food delivery is expensive and it’s hard to find one restaurant that everyone likes\n* Most small startups are below the order minimum for catering services\n\n### **😋 Our solution**\n\nLocale partners with top local restaurants to offer heat-and-eat meals that last all week in your office fridge. Your employees place one group order by Friday for all their lunches for the following week and they arrive Monday morning. Employees can grab them and quickly reheat whenever they’re hungry.\n\n### **⚙️ How does it work?**\n\n1. Employees choose from 100+ prepared meals from 20+ top restaurants. All meals are $11 or less.\n2. Since orders are pre-scheduled, we're able to place bulk orders days ahead of pickup with restaurants, saving them time and money. We then pass along savings to you.\n3. Meals from multiple restaurants are **delivered together** and arrive refrigerated. Meals are sealed to extend their shelf life. All meals are ready in 2 steps or less.\n\n### **🙏🏻 Ask/Give**\n\nWe’re offering a **week of free lunches** to Bay Area-based YC startups to get your feedback and improve the service.\n\nIf you’re interested, take 1 min to fill out [**this form**](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckO2DlHw7nZ7D7CprRgDHYIdutqipfRj8V9tdIa4GXg2h6Uw/viewform) and I’ll reach out ASAP to send you a link that your employees can use to order.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JCF-locale-office-lunches-designed-for-startups", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2023-08-04T14:46:38.610Z" }, { "id": 71813, "title": "Locale: We’re making restaurant delivery affordable", "tagline": "A marketplace for prepared meals from top restaurants", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\nStop overpaying for restaurant delivery. Locale offers prepared meals from top restaurants for **$11 or less per meal.** You can order meals from **multiple restaurants, all bundled in one delivery**.\n\n### **Who we are**\n\n👋🏻 Hi everyone! We’re Chris and Jonny with Locale. We both grew up in the Bay Area and love good food but rarely have time to cook, so we started Locale!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71813&key=user_uploads/714052/211aa943-8ac3-48c3-a205-806457f2da30)\n\n_Chris (left) and Jonny (right)._\n\n### 😡 **The problem**\n\nI never have time to cook but I want good food to eat during the week\n\n* Restaurant delivery is $25+ per meal after fees and I can’t afford that every time\n* Frozen food from the grocery store is bland and unhealthy\n\n### 😋 **Our solution**\n\nUse Locale to order prepared meals from top restaurants for $11 or less per meal. Get heat and eat meals from your favorite SF restaurants like **Sweetgreen, Pizzeria Delfina, Oren’s Hummus,** and more. All delivered in one box, for a flat $5 fee. Meals are packaged to store in your fridge or freezer so you can eat them throughout the week. **No subscription required.**\n\n### ⚙️ **How does it work?**\n\n1. 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Please also share any questions/honest feedback below!\n\nCheck us out at [**localemeals.com**](https://localemeals.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IgH-locale-we-re-making-restaurant-delivery-affordable", "votes": 50, "created_at": "2023-05-25T16:14:35.861Z" }, { "id": 66850, "title": "Locale 🍕 The Affordable Food Discovery Platform", "tagline": "The most popular eateries across America for retail prices and $5 overnight shipping", "body": "Hi everyone, we’re Jonathan and Chris. We met in high school and we’re co-founders of [Locale](https://www.shoplocale.com). We’re very excited to share the launch of nationwide shipping of America’s best eateries with you.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=66850&key=user_uploads/718129/1897c90c-b09d-4c66-93d6-e49871752d61)\n\n### **How We Started:**\n\nWe started with local delivery in the Bay Area, expanded to Los Angeles and San Diego. 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We’re offering you $20 off with code YC20 —> [www.shoplocale.com/nationwide](http://www.shoplocale.com/nationwide)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HOE-locale-the-affordable-food-discovery-platform", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2022-10-21T18:15:57.983Z" } ] }, { "id": 24255, "name": "Perfekto", "slug": "perfekto", "former_names": [ "Eatgood" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3d27f7a7a6420ccf8c785c2c2dd7bc7b012b1e9c.png", "website": "https://www.perfekto.mx/", "all_locations": "Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico", "long_description": "Over 1/3 of food is being thrown away and in Latin America 72% of it prior to the consumer stage. Mainly due to physical imperfections or surplus production, despite being fresh and edible.\r\n\r\nPerfekto offers a grocery subscription box with imperfect and surplus food, home-delivered. 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While there are great options for plant-based milk and meat, there are hardly any for seafood. Options available are not convincing in taste, texture and nutrition. **Check out our launch** [**video**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAjnP8ow1xQ)**,** [**website**](https://www.numifoods.co) **and** [**instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/numi_foods/)**!** \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65060&key=user_uploads/777857/2edbdea1-e07c-44cc-a1d7-a7542abf4de3)\n\n\nThese are our numi foods plant-based shrimp! In the last 10 weeks of product iteration we’ve increased the number of customer who said they would buy the product from _23% to 63% for shrimp and to 85% for salmon._\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65060&key=user_uploads/777857/a3abba8c-c246-4206-98a4-5c5ff0aa5116)\n\n_From left to right:_ \n\n🌱 [Anton](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-pluschke-998b045b/) is the guru when it comes to developing plant-based alternatives: PhD in food and biotechnology, founding team member and Head of R&D for a venture-backed plant-based dairy company \n\n⛩️ [Marilena](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marilena-schmich/) combines strategic thinking and business building: previously senior consultant at McKinsey and business development at food-tech unicorn \n\n# Why do we need plant-based seafood?\n\n1. Bottom trawling creates **more GHG emissions than the entire global aviation sector.**\n2. Almost 80% of the world's marine **fish stocks are now fully exploited** (FAO). \n3. **93% of CO2 is stored in marine vegetation** and every 6 days an area in the size of Germany is destroyed by fishing trawlers.\n4. Nearly all **seafood contain mercury** or in aquaculture antibiotics\n\n# 💡 Consumers are looking for great seafoods alternatives, but current options just don’t cut it. 💡\n\n# **Our ask 🙏**\n\n1) Any intros to restauranteurs, creative chefs or restaurant chains, who might be interested in collaborations\n\n2) Follow numi on [Insta](https://www.instagram.com/numi_foods/) and [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@numi_foods) for the laughs\n\n3) Tell all your friends about us!\n\nThanks 💗\n\nThe numis!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GvM-numi-foods-brings-plant-based-shrimp-and-salmon-to-your-plate", "votes": 197, "created_at": "2022-08-02T06:31:28.507Z" } ] }, { "id": 26903, "name": "Chowdeck", "slug": "chowdeck", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1cb3611d48c9867e080282b7a0bbe6718d647fc6.png", "website": "https://chowdeck.com", "all_locations": "LA, Nigeria", "long_description": "Founded in October 2021, currently based in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous city, Chowdeck is an on-demand food delivery service and marketplace where people can purchase their favourite meals from a wide range of restaurants. Whether local or continental, customers can buy food in a few short steps and have it delivered to their doorstep in under 30 minutes. \r\n\r\nChowdeck is on a mission to empower restaurants in Africa to deliver meals to customers anywhere and anytime. Part of our unique offering to the restaurants listed on our marketplace is that we’ll help them grow, and so far, most of the restaurants we work with can boast of this achievement. With their help and the help of an ambitious team of relentless and fearless riders, we’ve delivered over 80,000 meals in the last six months in two major cities in Lagos.\r\n\r\nWe’ve come this far because we’re passionate about understanding the teething pains of delivery service in Africa and believe strongly in a world where ordering a meal is seamless.", "one_liner": "On-demand food delivery for Africa", "team_size": 103, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Food and Beverage", "launched_at": 1658177231, "tags": [ "Logistics" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Food and Beverage" ], "regions": [ "Nigeria", "Africa", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/chowdeck", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/chowdeck.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": null, "country": "NG", "linkedin_url": "https://ng.linkedin.com/company/chowdeck", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/chowdeck", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/chowdeck", "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1cb3611d48c9867e080282b7a0bbe6718d647fc6.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 503602, "full_name": "Femi Aluko", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Femi is the co-founder and CEO of Chowdeck. He was a former Principal Engineer at Paystack, an African payments company acquired by Stripe in 2020. When he started at Paystack in 2017 (as the fifth engineer and the first Core Payments Engineer), he was responsible for building the core payment infrastructure for multiple payment methods. As a Principal Engineer, he was in charge of designing multiple core systems like the circuit breaker for routing over 100k transactions daily.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/femialuko/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/LordBinary_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/da05aeebcda12866813892be1ab409dff3a9d5ee.jpg" }, { "user_id": 886154, "full_name": "Olumide Ojo", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Olumide is co-founder and CTO of Chowdeck. 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Our mission is to empower restaurants to deliver meals to customers anywhere and anytime.\n\nToday, we serve customers in two major neighbourhoods in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria and the most populous in Africa.\n\nIn the seven months since launch, we’ve achieved a record delivery time of under 30 minutes even as order volume increased from an average of 40 daily orders in January to an average of 650 daily orders in July. In addition, at least 88% of the 67 restaurants we partner with have recorded an increase in sales.\n\nAfrica’s biggest economic hub still doesn't have an efficient on-demand food delivery for restaurants. We’re on a mission to fix this, starting in Lagos and soon throughout Africa.\n\n**Milestones**\n\nIn the last six months, we’ve:\n\n* Done over 60,000 deliveries(did 17k in July)\n* processed over $500k in GMV($125k in July)\n* made $24k in monthly revenue in July\n* 3500+ active users (65% of whom have ordered more than once)\n\n**The Team**\n\n* Femi Aluko, former Backend Principal Engineer at Paystack (acquired by Stripe for over $200m)\n* Olumide Ojo, former Frontend Principal Engineer at Paystack (acquired by Stripe for over $200m)\n* Lanre Yusuf, former Engineering Lead at Crown Interactive.\n\n**Ask:**\n\n* If you live or work around Ikeja or Yaba in Lagos Nigeria, kindly try us out ❤️\n* If you don’t live in Lagos or Nigeria, kindly follow us and support us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/chowdeck) or [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/chowdeck/). We’re building a community!\n* If you have some experience running operations for a delivery startup, please do reach out. We’d love to learn from you.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H2v-chowdeck-the-easiest-and-fastest-way-to-deliver-food-in-africa", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2022-08-22T12:43:37.192Z" } ] }, { "id": 27147, "name": "FoodCourt", "slug": "foodcourt", "former_names": [ "CoKitchen" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8b310f196c9d3bbee68d94946f5184db3f66e95.png", "website": "https://www.getfoodcourt.com", "all_locations": "Lagos, LA, Nigeria; LA, Nigeria", "long_description": "FoodCourt (CoKitchen) is Africa's leading virtual restaurant company. We've served over 350,000 meals in the last 12 months & our goal is to make good food and quick convenience goods more accessible across Africa, through virtual restaurants & dark stores.\r\n\r\nUnderstanding the unique problems of the African on-demand/ food delivery market, we've taken a full-stack approach by controlling different areas of the value chain such as technology, production & delivery to give users a seamless & consistent experience while giving us unlimited flexibility for growth. \r\n\r\nLearn more at www.getfoodcourt.com or email henry@cokitchen.ng ", "one_liner": "Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa", "team_size": 80, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Food and Beverage", "launched_at": 1659104642, "tags": [ "Ghost Kitchens", "Consumer", "Delivery", "Food Tech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Food and Beverage" ], "regions": [ "Nigeria", "Africa", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/foodcourt", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/foodcourt.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Lagos", "country": "NG", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinco-kitchen/", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/foodcourt_app", "fb_url": "https://web.facebook.com/getfoodcourt/", "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8b310f196c9d3bbee68d94946f5184db3f66e95.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 741494, "full_name": "Henry Nneji", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Henry is the Co-Founder & CEO of CoKitchen. He is from a very entrepreneurial family and has always had a keen interest for solving problems with technology. Prior to CoKitchen, Henry has been able to accumulate a range of experiences cut across design, marketing, product development/ management & entrepreneurship. In 2019 he co-founded Fashion Map, a quick way for Nigerians to find tailors & fashion designers across the country, dubbed as the “Uber for Tailors” by The Economist. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/henrynneji", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a519dd5142b07a70ec6fcfaabf31a082f36d8eb6.jpg" }, { "user_id": 741516, "full_name": "Paul Adokiye Iruene", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Paul is the Co-Founder & CTO of CoKitchen. \nHe has a strong engineering background and has always been passionate about technology. \nPaul is a full-stack engineer with vast experience in back end, web, mobile development, AI, machine learning & DevOps. Prior to CoKitchen he was on the founding tech team of Prospa (YC W21), a digital bank for small businesses across Africa. As a personal project, built “for food only” an AI Vision app that identifies African food items using image classification.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-adokiye-iruene-5537a5163/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/bcb01390b60435cb0b6579e41c4c271ae501fb1e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "How Nigeria’s FoodCourt is making meals more accessible via cloud kitchen approach - Disrupt Africa", "url": "https://disrupt-africa.com/2023/06/06/how-nigerias-foodcourt-is-making-meals-more-accessible-via-cloud-kitchen-approach/", "date": "Jun 05, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 64997, "title": "CoKitchen (FoodCourt) ⚡️ - Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa", "tagline": "Good food, snacks, liquor & essentials delivered in a single order! ", "body": "Hello YC fam,\n\nThis is [Henry](https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrynneji/) & [Paul](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-adokiye-iruene-5537a5163/) from [CoKitchen](https://www.getfoodcourt.com)!\n\nWe are building the future of on-demand delivery in Africa with Virtual Restaurants & Dark Stores.\n\n**📲 FoodCourt App**\\\nThe [FoodCourt](https://onelink.to/foodcourtapp) app lets people order from a curation of virtual restaurant brands & shops focused on the most popular food & convenience categories wherever you are in Africa. With FoodCourt, you don’t have to decide between burgers, traditional Nigerian food, Chinese food or even liquor & snacks. You can order across brands & have everything delivered in a single order!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64997&key=user_uploads/741494/6447f895-8407-42e9-83a3-3888319ee070)\n\n**❎ The Problem**\\\nDespite the rise of aggregator food delivery apps across Africa, traditional restaurants still find it hard to adapt to the changes in consumer behaviour & keep up with the growing demand for on-demand delivery services. This has led to a **poor experience** for online food delivery users on the continent.\n\n**✅ Our Solution**\\\nWe’ve built a full-stack model where we control different areas of the value chain such as the technology, food production & delivery to give users a seamless & consistent experience.\n\n1. Order on the FoodCourt app - a curation of good food & convenience goods with our unique & easy to use multi-brand ordering experience.\n2. Order gets prepared in our multi-brand delivery hub - Fully optimised for delivery efficiency.\n3. 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Coming to stores in Summer 2023.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/jLpHHfZw35HrIMIF1TO2kvVP4fSVdxODZ2KlK1pjbrBV3YVSMjAkSog59f_yZSFCr9xbCAZ-l6nMkdIdGHt0ATcp5hL1oGrxjDfFKDs8ZXytZT4P8rDdgDSvP8mar01ofMSltyofn_BCIlLdG2KkBeg)\n\nA sneak peek product photo (sans BBQ sauce):\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69856&key=user_uploads/1182533/e0db13c1-8b74-46f8-b3da-f24267b53732)\n\n### **Team (more than just mustaches)**\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/0S3AbYE7CGE68wHbI297eYwiq-Ye8ljgR2v1xm_lIkpuHficvHpOn-vNdlo8QIP-ayQs3JkOKsN8cBa7cIAmLVyJ-ErnSpx2XCYtcfhPvcPj38VRXhINHdpAZ-_IcwbGxCdErThlm3I1ADzYXg3hV08)\n\nI ([Saba](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saba-fazeli-8b686067/)) spent the past five years heading up the R&D engineering department at Beyond Meat, where I helped develop and scale the textured proteins that underpin every product introduced to the market since 2017. 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Think of us as Chipotle for African meals. \n\nChow Central started as a fun experiment shortly after we graduated from University.  We created a virtual restaurant page on Twitter to sell affordable meals and also help underutilized restaurants get sales during the Covid lockdown.\n\nWe relaunched 18 months ago, currently active in just one region and we are doing over $80,000 in monthly revenue.\n\nWe have modified our approach, we operate a central kitchen to improve quality and maintain consistency. We then partner with highly-vetted underutilized commercial kitchens to serve as our fulfillment centers. \n\nOur customers love our delicious recipes and our faster & cheaper deliveries. 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