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Local Kitchens
Helping local restaurants expand across micro food halls
- 101-200 employees
- B2C
- Hospitality
- B2B
- Food
- SaaS
- Delivery
- West Oakland, Oakland, CA
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Company mission
To be the future of restaurants
Our take
In contrast to other delivery apps such as Deliveroo and UberEats, Local Kitchens combine the convenience of online delivery with the atmosphere and social elements of street food dining halls.
With many restaurants struggling in a highly competitive marketplace to expand their brand further afield, Local Kitchen has rapidly grown its food halls and sources its menus from handpicked local restaurants in the San Francisco Bay. Local Kitchens diverge from their hospitality-driven industry through the option of delivery and give customers the freedom to mix and match their orders from different restaurants on their foodhall sites.
The combination of on-site hospitality staffing and the gap in the market-plugging digital app aims to be a boutique service that puts the customer first. Its success so far has led to the development of a real estate sector within the company.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company values
- Guest love: Local Kitchens exists to make guests happy.
- First principles thinking: We keep asking “why” like a 4-year-old and never accept the status quo.
- Operate at the lowest level of detail: We solve problems at the lowest level of detail e.g. by going to the kitchen. We measure everything and win arguments with data. We don’t use sloppy thinking.
- Relentless: We outwork everyone, it’s our most controllable competitive advantage. We don’t get knocked down when things are tough
- Drive for excellence: We are intrinsically motivated and strive to get 1% better every day
- No job beneath you: We do whatever is needed to help the team win. We don’t understand the words “that’s not my job”. We always wash the dishes
- Play with joy: We bring joy to work every day. We support each other with contagious energy and optimism. We choose to have fun even when it feels like a grind
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2024
$40m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $68m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Andrew Munday
(COO & Co-Founder)Co-founder & COO of Pilaris, Ops for Dutchie and Open.
Jon Goldsmith
(CEO & Co-Founder)CEO & Co-Founder of Tetra, Software Engineer for Comma.ai and DoorDash.