Jean Gutierrez wrote the plan for a food business at a desk in his living room, knowing nothing about cooking professionally. On July 12th, 2015, he started selling meals online anyway.
It got busy fast. Busy enough to hire two people, and then busy enough to make a phone call that went roughly: Mom, quit McDonald's, I need you here, and I'll make you a fifty-fifty partner. She said yes. Tim, her husband and the best stepdad in the deal, came with her.
Ten years later the whole family works here, and the business feeds thousands of people across Portland every week. We are not a startup and we are not a national brand. We are a family that cooks for a living and cares about getting your week right.