How Home Meal Replacement Delivery Companies Are Dealing With the Coronavirus Pandemic - DeliverLean

June 06,2024

Most of us know how prepared meal delivery services work even if we’ve never used one: Someone puts together a well-balanced meal of your choice. Someone else delivers it. All you have to do is store it and heat it up, if it requires cooking, and dispose of the container. In normal times, if restaurant dining, delivery, and home cooking were a Venn diagram, then prepared meal delivery services would be one of those wedges where the circles meet. But these are quarantine times. Could home meal replacement delivery grow so fast that it won’t exist between the spaces any longer, but become the spaces? Randazzo Italiano is one company stepping into the ever-widening gap where dining out and cooking at home used to be. In fact, the prepared-meals provider has seen “a sharp spike in business for sure due to current events,” according to proprietor Frank Randazzo. Randazzo Italiano is owned by Randazzo and wife Andrea Curto-Randazzo, both renowned Miami chefs who have run several popular restaurants and a catering company through the years. But despite their combined pedigrees, their prepped meal delivery service, comprising flash-chilled Italian-American specialties culled from family recipes, was a gamble when it began in