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New healthy food delivery service offers hybrid pickup and delivery

The shocker was just how much environmentally friendly food containers cost.

Rueben Major and his partners at healthy meal delivery service Vital Supply Co needed practical, affordable and compostable packaging for their meal deliveries.

Vital Supply Co. delivers locally sourced and/or organic, dietitian approved, gluten and dairy free meals twice a week to Vital branded fridges placed in businesses (often fitness centres) and offices. Home delivery is available for a fee.

Compostable containers turned out to be a surprisingly large expense in the already narrow margin food business. makes up 7.5 per cent of the entire (retail) cost of a dish, said Major, a former Earls top replica hermes handbags Restaurant director of culinary and bar development.

Vital Supply Co. is one of the newer entrants to Vancouver fake hermes handbags nascent convenient healthy food industry. Variations include Christine Day Luvo which wholesales prepared, frozen, meals in a pouch through grocery retailers; Fresh Prep Vancouver which home delivers pre portioned and chopped ingredients for customers to cook; Fresh in Your Fridge where staff visit individual homes with groceries, cook and stock the fridge with customized meals for clients individual tastes and health needs, and; Thirstfirst which installs mini marts with healthy prepared foods in offices.

Vital subscription model has no set terms and allows customers wide flexibility in ordering up to five meals a day from a weekly offering. Their hybrid customer pickup/home delivery model makes it possible to order five days of lunches (delivered on Mondays and Thursdays) for as little as $70 a week, or $14 a meal including taxes, delivery and fees.

The year and a half old business has 13 employees and now delivers 1,500 meals a cheapest hermes bag week and hopes to break even next summer. Their only location cost is rental commissary space at Ed Daily on Powell Street. They do their own deliveries but are seeking a logistics partner.

Complementary businesses such as gyms and fitness businesses allow Vital to place a fridge on their site in return for meal credits and other benefits. The businesses decide whether to allow non members to pick up Vital meals on site. Vital has about 16 open pickup locations.

Instead, the partners (Braden Matthews, formerly an Earl's head chef; Mackenzie Davis, formerly a Browns Restaurant Group general manager; and Dan Meyer, construction company owner)are seeing interest in office catering.

One key thing they've learned is their website needed much greater back end sophistication and investment to allow clients to fully customize their selections. Version 2will launch soon following a year's development.

Another surprise was menu demands. A restaurant typically offers 30 major items and might "change one or two every couple of months," Major said, but Vital hopes people will eat with them on a constant basis."Every four weeks or hermes replica bags so, we've gone through the entire menu."Major figures he needs to double their existing 60 menu items, a significant and time consuming job.

is definitely the key. In food, the margins are slim. This is a volume game for sure, Major said.

As for that packaging challenge some customers found Vital's first few compostable containers too flimsy "You can't just throw them in backpacks and take them to work," Major said. epaper, Digital Access, Subscriber Rewards), please input your Print Newspaper subscription phone number and postal code.

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