The Future of Meal Kits When UK Restaurants Reopen After Lockdown
No one got into meal kits for the fun of it. Packing up pre-prepared food for a customer perhaps hundreds of miles away was not the reason why most chefs got into the profession. And adding a series of logistical headaches — reallocation of space, different quality-control standards, appropriate packaging, national distribution — to an already tenuous business model was no restaurateur’s idea of a good time. And yet as the COVID-19 pandemic intensified during the second half of 2020, more and more of London’s restaurants found themselves moving toward some form of prepare-at-home opti...