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Urban Plates Wants Your Dinner Habit. The Asking Price Is $5.
The California restaurant chain pairs scratch cooking with a paid discount club. Behind the bargain is a story of ambitious expansion, a pandemic retreat, and a more practical way to win the next meal.
Luna Grill Wants Your Weeknight Dinner
The Mediterranean chain is selling relief from the shopping, chopping and washing up. Its next test is making a family kitchen work at the scale of 62 restaurants.
Bon Appétit Management Company
Bon Appétit Management Company is an on-site restaurant company that runs more than 1,000 cafés and catering operations for corporations, universities, and museums across the United States. Founded in 1987 by Fedele Bauccio and Ernie Collins, it pioneered cooking from scratch in the contract food world and built a reputation as the industry's sustainability conscience - the first major food service company to commit to sustainable seafood, cage-free eggs, antibiotic limits, and tying food choices to climate change. A Compass Group subsidiary since 2002, it operates from Redwood City, California.
Fedele Bauccio
Fedele Bauccio is co-founder and CEO of Bon Appetit Management Company, the Redwood City onsite restaurant operator that runs more than 1,000 cafes for universities, corporations and museums in 33 states. He built the business in 1987 on a then-heretical pitch - hire trained chefs to cook from scratch for cafeteria diners - and turned it into the contract food industry's most outspoken laboratory for local sourcing, animal welfare and farmworker rights.