I am also trying out recipes to launch a prescription service where people get sent recipes that can be prepared in less than 15 minutes. A service that provide healthy delicious food for people on the go. I plan to launch a national service where people can subscribe to my recipes for a monthly fee of 9.99. In the local area (SF) i am planning to provide an extended service where the subscribers get a delivery once a week that contains both the groceries and the recipes to cook them. This service will be modeled after the grocery bags i subscribed to when i Lived in Sweden a few years back. A country where it is very popular to subscribe to grocery bags that come with recipes. In Sweden there are a large selection of different companies that offer grocery bags with recipes and a number of websites like
matkasse.se that let you compare them.
My hope is that these services will provide me with a secondary stream of income and make me rely less on the sometimes fickle lunch and dinner crowd. The grocery bags will involve a lot of extra work but will also be able to give me higher margins since i can by groceries from the same vendors i use for the restaurant and pay a lower price than that in the grocery store. This margin combined with the delivery fee should make it a profitable venture if I can reach more than 100 subscribers. A rather modest goal.
