After successfully expanding its offerings to include dinner-to-door meal kits and subscriptions, Baton Rouge-based Indie Plate says it plans to take the service statewide by the end of this year.
Indie Plate co-founder and CEO Paritosh Sharma tells 225 Dine the company saw an influx of customers requesting dinner-to-door service after rolling out the kits in January last year. Sharma and his team discussed how to make at-home meal preparation easier, and enlisted the help of Nino’s chef Elton Hyndman to design and craft menus.
“We asked ourselves, ‘What is it about this recipe that we would hate to do at home?’” says Sharma, who launched the local foods delivery service in December 2013 with business partner Ben Bartage.
Indie Plate brings fresh groceries, many of which come from local farmers and food producers, to residents in the Baton Rouge region. Customers can register online for one of three dinner-to door meal subscriptions: Eight meal and snack servings per week; 12 meal and snack servings per week; or a raw produce basket that includes items like strawberries, beets, radish, kale or tomatoes from local farmers.
All of the food and raw goods are sourced within 250 miles of Baton Rouge. The company is limiting grocery delivery service to Baton Rouge and its surrounding areas.
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