Foodnome

The first legal marketplace for home-based restaurants

foodnome.com

Oakland, CA

Marketplace

Highlights

Legalized a new industry enabling thousands of home cooks to monetize their home kitchens

On track to have over 250 Restaurants in the next 9 months with $1,000,000 in annual revenue

5000+ Cook applications from across the country

Support and celebrate small minority and BIPOC owned businesses

Team

Foodnome — Democratizing the food industry one home cooked meal at a time

Foodnome is the first legal marketplace for home-based restaurants in the US. Thanks to a California state law called AB626 that we helped pass in 2018, local chefs can now legally & safely sell food from the comfort of their home kitchen. Since our early beginnings in Q3 of 2019, we have seen a 1,236% increase in monthly revenue

Neighbors have limited local food options & have no easy way to purchase homemade food.

Limited access to fresh, diverse food (especially in suburbs & rural areas)

77% of Americans rather eat homemade food than go out for dinner
85% of Americans do not enjoy cooking

Chefs don't have accessible ways to monetize their cooking.

Regulatory & logistical hurdles

Avg 3-9% profit margins
$275K initial startup costs

Foodnome connects local home-based restaurants with hungry neighbors:

Neighbors can find delicious, authentic food made safely at an affordable price & support small local businesses with just a few clicks.

- Local Chefs can make a living & test out food concepts by opening a legal restaurant from home. Home restaurants have less than 1% the startup costs of a traditional restaurant while yielding profit margins that are 8x as high. Chefs can make more money per hour cooking for their own home restaurant ($26-40/hour) than they can for a restaurant.

75% of independent restaurants won’t reopen after the pandemic according to the NY Times. 5-7 million unemployed food professionals are looking for new sources of income.
Most food sales have been pushed to digital, and diners are looking for safe food options. There has been a 3,868% increase in digital food sales in suburbs.
Safety trained and permitted chefs offer contactless takeout and delivery from their permitted home restaurant. This offers unparalleled transparency and further minimizes contact (1 chef vs an entire restaurant staff & foot traffic).
Chefs have more time for their home business, relying on Foodnome as their main source of income. This shows Foodnome’s stability, increasing neighbors' trust in our marketplace and chef activity.
Major legislative strides in key markets are occuring, enabling our immediate expansion.

While it is legal to sell food from your kitchen at the California state level, each county must opt-in in order for permits to be offered to local chefs. Riverside is the first county to take this leap towards this amazing opportunity to uplift their local communities. Within the last year we have helped over 100 chefs get permitted and start thriving restaurants from their kitchens. We've also built strong ties to local health officials, furthering solidifying Foodnome's deep involvement in this rising movement.