Lou Malnati's has spent 55 years turning one stubbornly local recipe into restaurants, delivery kitchens and a nationwide cold-chain business. Its next challenge is expansion without sanding away the family ritual that made the pizza travel in the first place.
Manettas Seafood Market is a Sydney-based online seafood market that delivers market-fresh fish, shellfish and gourmet groceries to homes and businesses across Australia. Founded in 2016 by third-generation fishmonger Peter Manettas, the company pairs a consumer-facing (B2C/D2C) online fish market with ShoreTrade, a B2B digital trading platform that connects fishers and wholesalers along the seafood supply chain. It sources traceable seafood from producers around the country and offers next-day delivery, chef recipes and specialist cold-chain packaging.
Crowd Cow is a Seattle-based online meat marketplace that connects independent farms, ranches, and fisheries directly with home cooks. Founded in 2015 as a 'cow-sharing' crowdfunding experiment, it grew into one of the best-known direct-to-consumer protein brands in the U.S., known for radical transparency about where each cut comes from, hard-to-find products like Japanese A5 and Olive Wagyu, and a mission to give consumers an alternative to the anonymous, commodity grocery-store meat case.