ChefsFridge Co. Products

ChefsFridge is a transformative innovation combining the concepts of recipe-driven food markets, an access controlled locker, and technology-based social interaction for consumers and food providers. It is a multicompartment, stand-alone, temperature-controlled kiosk where food is organized or prepared by farmers and chefs and sold to consumers through an app on their phone. This seamless transaction opens the door for food industry innovators to transform how they grow, prepare and present food to future consumers.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, 78% of grocery store shoppers have changed the way they purchase food including a 28% increase in online shopping, and a 46% shift in where they shop for food. This restructuring of the marketplace provides immense opportunity for disruptive, novel food market technology for consumers expressing new values which include eating with family (87%), cooking more meals at home (41%), and minimizing grocery trips (42%).

Existing innovations such as ghost kitchens, restaurant delivery services, at-home meal kits, online shopping, and online direct farm to consumer sales have laid the foundation for ChefsFridge’s novel concept model. The multi-compartment kiosk is designed to accommodate many types of customers, including food producers such as farmers, chefs and food businesses as well as consumers.

One of the largest negative impacts on the food system from the pandemic has been in food service or prepared foods. Millions of workers are jobless, and restaurants are unable to adapt quickly enough to accommodate pandemic regulations and consumer comfort in a sustainable business model. ChefsFridge is the relevant technology for the transformation of the food industry. For food producers who want to reach consumers directly, each kiosk compartment has a temperature control feature with innovative thermal ‘banks,’ storing 5-7 times the energy of current vending machines and holds freezing temperatures for significantly longer periods of time.

The on-board technology controls the temperature within each compartment( > 2oF) and responds to temperature fluctuations due to food loads and door openings. ChefsFridge will design and build transformative facades, sustainable indoor/outdoor operation models, and offer scalability (16 compartments per kiosk with daisy chain build-outs) to embrace the latest energy efficient technology trends with our manufacturing partners. Our kiosks will ultimately be user-friendly, green, efficient, and approachable, both for the food providers and consumers.

Evolving consumer food decisions are broadening in scope: consumers are applying new food values such as transparency, health and wellness, and social impact, all of which influence what food they buy and where. Pandemic consumer behavior supports these findings, with the latest surveys showing healthier eating behaviors (36%) and minimization of perishable food waste (44%). Consumers are seeking new ways to purchase food which can lower their risk of illness and maximize their connection to local food producers. Consumers directly influence types of foods in the ChefsFridge kiosk, due to the robust tracking and information about their food choices communicated in real time to the food producers.

The innovative 24/7/365 ChefsFridge kiosk fulfills an unmet need of food producers and consumers. It enables strong producer to consumer connectivity that drives food system change. ChefsFridge is a transformative technology increasing the control farmers, chefs and consumers have on their food system while simultaneously supporting local food economies.

Inspired by a vision: allow curators to provide fresh, local food to everyone in every neighborhood, ChefsFridge will bridge cultural and economic zones across our country, battling food insecurity with the latest advanced manufacturing and technology innovations.

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