# SideChef

> SideChef is a cooking app and recipe technology company that combines guided recipes, meal planning and grocery shopping for home cooks while licensing recipe platforms and selling contextual campaigns to retailers, food brands, publishers and appliance makers.

- **Founded:** 2013
- **Headquarters:** San Jose, United States
- **Founders:** Kevin Yu (Founder and CEO), Cadence Hardenbergh (Co-founder and COO)
- **Products:** SideChef app and website, SideChef Premium, Recipe platform technology, Shoppable recipe links and in-recipe campaigns, RecipeGen AI
- **Notable:** Named to the 2022 Inc. 5000 list., Recognized in Fast Company's 2022 Innovation by Design awards for Zero Waste Grocer., Google Play has featured SideChef as an Editors' Choice app.

## Products & services

- **SideChef app and website** — Step-by-step recipes with images or video, timers, meal plans, filters and grocery ordering.
- **SideChef Premium** — Optional subscription for on-demand cooking classes and premium recipes.
- **Recipe platform technology** — White-label web and app experiences with a recipe CMS, search, personalization and shoppable integrations.
- **Shoppable recipe links and in-recipe campaigns** — Ingredient-to-cart links and contextual food-brand campaigns with order and sales measurement.
- **RecipeGen AI** — Feature that proposes a guided, shoppable recipe from a dish photo.
- **SideChef Studio** — Food-content creation tools; beta signups were closed at the time of review.

## Achievements

- Named to the 2022 Inc. 5000 list.
- Recognized in Fast Company's 2022 Innovation by Design awards for Zero Waste Grocer.
- Google Play has featured SideChef as an Editors' Choice app.
- Sunset Foods launched a SideChef-powered site with more than 8,000 recipes in under four weeks.

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — SideChef recipes appeared in a Yahoo Search recipe carousel.
- **2025-06** — Sunset Foods launched Recipe Rack using SideChef's platform.
- **2025-04** — SideChef announced campaign-measurement partnership with Pathformance.
- **2024-10** — SideChef and Edamam announced a nutrition and recipe solutions partnership.
- **2024-08** — SideChef introduced RecipeGen AI in beta.

## Links

- Website: https://www.sidechef.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sidechef/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/sidechefapp
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SideChefChannel
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sidechef/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SideChef/

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Last updated: 2026-09-28