Are Food Delivery Businesses a Gateway to Home Chefs’ Success?

In today’s busy world, from students to employees, most of the public eats cooked or readymade food. The reason is time shortage and the newer generations’ changing culinary preferences. Gone are the days when elderly women used to cook, and the rest of the family ate. As domestic life trends have changed, so have the consumption ones. Children and teenagers have different food choices than adults. So, various restaurants, food points, and culinary businesses have emerged globally, making the eatery business the second largest in the world, the first being electronics. Dining out has also become less of a favorite, today, the majority of consumers desire to have freshly cooked hot meals delivered to their doorstep. The transportation costs, the time to park vehicles and ultimately find a table, and the fatigue of choosing from the menu and ordering are all shriveled down to a phone call, resulting in food delivery at the doorway.

With increasing demand for food delivered at residences, offices, hostels, and workplaces, the concept of home chefs has risen too. Home chefs are people, mostly women, restricted to the vicinity of their home kitchens for various reasons (mostly stay-at-home moms) who want to contribute by providing freshly cooked homemade meals with natural ingredients. The main problem was delivery, some years ago, but thanks to technology, these home chefs can now easily deliver their meals to those wanting homely cooked food through specified apps. Today, businesses like DoorDash, Good Eggs, Food Panda, and Uber Eats provide swift delivery services to home chefs. When surveyed, home chefs have been delightfully providing such services and earning handsome amounts from the comfort of their homes. Some chefs have even informed through surveys that no extra or tiresome cooking is needed, and a portion of whatever is cooked in routine is delivered to customers, leading to higher profit margins.

The biggest advantage that every home chef avails from the food delivery business is saving the cost of food points or outer kitchen infrastructure. From aesthetics to seating arrangement, maintaining a restaurant itself is a tedious task that requires not only ample resourcing but also strategic planning. Cleanliness and regular updating of the premises are some of the many hitches restaurant owners have to face and deal with. Home chefs are free from any such hassles and cook easily from the ease of their own spaces.

A business’s cost and expenses to attract and retain customers through marketing and apt research is called CAC or customer acquisition cost. Today, businesses pay heavily to maintain attractive marketing techniques and spend quality time devising new and better marketing strategies through research and development on the customer base. Home chefs are those lucky tycoons who have no such hindrances, as according to statistics of 2023, 77% of the global population would prefer home-cooked meals over processed and artificially prepared ones. Hence, with such a huge consumer base already built and informed, home chefs have no stress of marketing their products and finding out the customer who wants such services.

Home chefs not only need zero marketing but are already in the good books of food connoisseurs. Home-cooked food is perceived to be free from additives, artificial flavors, carcinogenic MSGs, fondants, and preservatives, unlike restaurant-cooked food, which is famous for having all such toxins. Hence, home chefs are blessed with an already built positive brand image and food delivery businesses provide them with a platform to deliver their products and services to the right customers.

The cost of delivering food, ensuring its safety, with no spills and mess, and most of all, delivering it fast and sizzling hot all are the stresses of food delivery businesses that home chefs are devoid of. If you are a home chef, you just have to cook the meal; the rest is history. The cost of maintaining transport vehicles, GPS systems for better location tracing, and hiring educated and well-leaned staff to use GPS services are all borne by food delivery businesses.

Because a home chef operates from his vicinity, he needs minimal inventory checks as he is the only user or has a maximum of 1-2 helpers. As inventory is in minimal hands, no or little stress of inventory record is needed. Today, 35% of all restaurant and food businesses use an ITAM solution to keep inventory intact and under scrutiny. The process of tracking raw materials and restaurant assets such as kitchen supplies, cooking range, cutlery, and raw materials needed for food preparation all are maintained through IT asset management solutions. Today, many successful home chefs with extensive home-based eatery setups have employed small-scale ITAM solutions to their domestic kitchens, maintaining efficient asset checks.

Though the above given are just some of the many advantages food delivery businesses have provided to home chefs, this revolution in culinary business has enabled many gourmet chefs with limited resources but ample talent, to showcase their cooking skills in the best possible way. Food delivery services serve as middlemen for consumers searching for diverse and delectable cuisines every day and artistic food makers ready to unleash their cooking expertise anytime, with natural and healthy ingredients.