A meal kit is a subscription service–foodservice business model where a company sends customers pre-portioned and sometimes partially prepared food ingredients and recipes to prepare home-cooked meals.[1] Services that send pre-cooked meals are called meal delivery services. This subscription model has been cited as an example of the personalization of the food and beverage industry.[2]
A meal kit is not to be confused with convenience food, which is cooked and "prepared" at a kitchen facility before shipment—typically in a refrigerated container.
- ^ Duffy, Jill; Minor, Jordan. "The Best Meal-Kit Delivery Services for 2023". PCMAG. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ "Capitalizing on convenience: The rise of meal-kit services and what it means for grocers". Food Dive. 17 October 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2018.