MealPal is open for business in Los Angeles.
The subscription lunch service, which is headquartered in New York, has expanded to downtown L.A. and Century City with daily lunch options from popular restaurants for less than six bucks per meal, L.A. Biz reports.
Here’s how it works: Every day, participating restaurants offer a dish to MealPal members, who can browse the options near them or filter by cuisine and ingredients. Then users can preorder their selected dish the night before or morning of and set a pickup time, at which point they can just pop in, skip the line and pick up their lunch with MealPal covering their tab.
MealPal is already available in 16 cities around the world, including New York, San Francisco, Paris, London, Seattle, Sydney and Singapore.
“With many of the healthiest fast casual restaurants in the world calling Los Angeles home, it is a perfect market for MealPal,” said co-founder and CEO Mary Biggins in a statement. “We are excited to connect people working in DTLA and Century City with their favorite restaurants in an affordable and fun way.”
Founded in 2016 by Biggins, a co-founder of ClassPass, and Katie Ghelli, previously of Zocdoc, MealPal has facilitated more than 10 million reservations and paid more than $100 million to restaurant owners. The company, which employs 85 people, including five to get the service up and running in L.A., has raised $35 million in funding, per Crunchbase.
“Prior to MealPal, I struggled to get a good workday lunch. I’m impatient and cost-conscious, so I always found delivery expensive and waiting in line for food inefficient,” Biggins told LA Biz. “MealPal solves both of those problems by making weekday lunches affordable and efficient to pick up. What’s more, I love working with small business owners.”
Source: “Los Angeles” – Google News