MealPal operates a subscription platform that lets users pre-order a single dish from partner restaurants for timed pick-up rather than delivery. The service offers fixed-price lunches and dinners (U.S. prices cited at $5.99–$6.99 and U.K. at £4.50–£4.99) and restricts each restaurant to one menu item to simplify operations. MealPal emphasizes predictive analytics to forecast demand, helping restaurants batch-prepare orders and reduce labor costs; the company pays restaurants a flat fee per meal. Founders Mary Biggins and Katie Ghelli have focused the product on office workers and have calibrated the service using customer data and ratings. The company reports it has delivered 3 million meals since launching 18 months ago and says it makes a margin on each order. MealPal is expanding offerings (adding dinner in New York) and plans geographic expansion into new markets such as France. MealPal operates a subscription lunchtime meal service connecting members with one curated dish per day from participating restaurants. Members use a website or mobile app to browse nearby meals, filter by cuisine and portion size, and preorder the night before or the morning of pickup, selecting a pickup time. The company works with hundreds to thousands of restaurants that offer a daily dish to subscribers. Led by co-founder and CEO Mary Biggins, MealPal launched its first market in Miami in January 2016 and has since expanded to seven additional U.S. cities. The company has facilitated over 1 million reservations and is using growth capital to expand internationally, beginning with a launch in London as its eighth city and first international market.

Total raised

$35M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Sep 2017