Meal Kit Delivery Services in the U.S.
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Meal Kit Delivery Services in the U.S.
Are meal kit delivery services the future of the U.S. food industry, destined to replace both at-home food preparation from store-bought ingredients and the seemingly indelible experience of food store shopping itself, while also cutting into the restaurant business? Some meal kit industry participants say so, and while perhaps not quite so starry as this, the future does appear bright. Culinary convenience is a quality many Americans search for when it comes to meal preparation. Bridging the space between home-cooked meals and takeout, meal kit delivery services have exploded into a $1.5 billion market in just the past few years and appear on track to at least double that number in the next few years. Based on the volume of meal kit delivery service orders nationwide, the food delivery industry will grow to a multi-billion dollar market over the next five years. Packaged Facts'report, Meal Kit Delivery Services in the U.S., explores the maturing meal kit delivery industry, analyzing in expert detail the emerging trends arising in this young and exciting market.
Meant to solve the perennial problem of “what’s for dinner?”, meal kit delivery services offer consumers a convenient way to cook at home without having to do the meal planning and grocery shopping. One out of every four Americans reported ordering meal kit delivery in 2016, and many of them are likely to make future purchases because of the convenience meal kit delivery services provide to consumers strapped for time. Meal kits offer convenience that is crucial to managing meal preparation. Meal kit delivery services also offer consumers options on the web, with features like online portals that allow consumers to order meals ahead of time from picture menus displaying gorgeous photos of the finished dish. These meal kit delivery services deliver the pre-measured fresh ingredients along with recipes to consumers' doorsteps to help them cook chef-quality meals at home. Marketers in the meal kit delivery industry are aiming for—and finding—a “sweet spot” with consumers who do not have the time, inclination, or know-how to shop for individual ingredients, navigate through a lengthy recipe, and cook an entire meal from scratch, yet who also don't want to eat another heat-and-eat prepared meal, order takeout food, or dine out. It's no wonder then that participants across the entire food spectrum—from grocery home delivery services like Peapod and FreshDirect, to packaged foods marketers like Barilla, to meal-kits-only grocery store Pantry—are climbing aboard the burgeoning meal kit delivery service bandwagon.
Why Meal Kits?
Meal kit delivery has exploded over the past few years for many reasons from the consumer viewpoint. For one, most meal kit delivery services operate in a similar manner by offering enticing, easy-to-use websites. Consumers can browse menus full of current (and sometimes future & previous) recipes complete with high-quality photographs of food. The same scroll-down or additional webpages describe how the meal delivery service works and who its suppliers are. But meal kit delivery services' popularity isn't due simply to attractive and intuitive online portals. Many Americans see the convenience meal kit delivery offers as highly important when deciding what to eat for dinner. Consumers who feel like they're strapped for time when it comes to meal preparation choose meal kit delivery services precisely because of the simplicity and convenience they offer. Meal Kit Delivery Services in the U.S. explores the many reasons consumers are increasingly choosing meal kit delivery over other food options such as grocery retailers, restaurants, or takeout.
Attractions of Meal Kit Delivery Services:
- Saves time and stress of shopping and meal planning
- Freshness
- No food wasted
- Teaches cooking skills
- Promotes discovery & introduces variety
- Makes exotic food ingredients available everywhere
- Allows consumers to make homemade gourmet meals
Scope and Methodology
Packaged Facts’ first-edition report, Meal Kit Delivery Services in the U.S., opens with an overview chapter presenting a thorough introduction to the new and exciting business of meal kit delivery services, exploring its history, the changing eating trends that are making it viable, how exactly meal kit delivery services are made to succeed in a feasible business model, and attractions and criticisms levied against the burgeoning meal kit services market. The next chapter, "The Consumer", concentrates primarily on analyzing data from a proprietary Packaged Facts National Consumer Survey conducted in February 2015 that delves into the scope and demographics of users of meal kit delivery services. The report's next chapter, “The Marketers”, profiles more than two dozen meal kit services market competitors and their strategies, including: Ahold USA, Blue Apron, Chef’d, Cooking Simplified, Din, Foodstirs, FreshDirect, Gobble, Green Blender, Green Chef, Handpick, HelloFresh, Home Chef, Hungryroot, Just Add Cooking, Markey Spoon, Munchery, Pantry, PeachDish, Plated, The Purple Carrot, Saffron Fix, Sun Basket, Terra’s Kitchen, and Tyson Foods. The report's closing chapter, "Trends & Opportunities", springboards off the past and current state of the meal kit delivery services industry to explore the future of this market.
In addition to the Packaged Facts consumer survey, primary research for Meal Kit Delivery Services in the U.S. includes telephone and email interviews with executives at meal kit delivery services, with secondary research encompassing more than 300 articles in consumer and industry publications, websites, and blogs, as well as other reports by Packaged Facts, along with websites and literature from individual meal kit marketers.
- Chapter 1: Executive Summary
- Overview
- Scope of Report
- Report Methodology
- Why Meal Kits?
- How Meal Kit Delivery Services Work
- The Attractions of Meal Kit Delivery Services
- An Industry Disrupter
- A $1.5 Billion Market and Growing
- Trends and Opportunities
- Projecting the Future
- Are Meal Kit Delivery Services Ripe for Mergers, Acquisitions, and
- IPOs?
- Opportunities for Regionals, Unique Marketing Angles, Retailers,and CPG Brands
- The Consumer
- Half of All Consumers Use Food Delivery Services
- Figure 1-1 6 Consumers Using Food Delivery Services in the Past 30 Days, 2016 (percent of U.S. adults)
- Meal Kit Consumers Also Favor RTE Food and Grocery Deliveries
- Most Meal Kit Consumers Under Age 45, Have Kids
- Meal Kit Users Are Urban, Well-Educated
- Other Surveys
- Brick Meets Click: How Consumers Are Using Online Grocery
- NPD Group on Cooking at Home
- The Marketers
- More than 150 Meal Kit Delivery Services in the USA
- Ahold’s Take on Meal Kits
- Blue Apron Targets Would-Be Chefs
- Chef’d Is Bringing Professional Chefs Into America’s Kitchens
- Affordability a Key Appeal of Cooking Simplified
- Din Recreates Restaurant Meals at Home
- Foodstirs: Baking and Foodcrafting Kits at the Core
- Chapter 2: Trends and Opportunities
- Key Points
- Projecting the Future
- Are Meal Kit Delivery Services Ripe for Mergers, Acquisitions, and IPOs?
- Opportunities for Regionals, Unique Marketing Angles, Retailers, and CPG Brands
- Celebrity Chefs
- Targeting Singles, Empty Nesters, Ethnic Groups
- Chapter 3: Overview
- Scope of Report
- Report Methodology
- Why Meal Kits?
- Changing Eating Trends
- Started in Sweden
- How Meal Kit Delivery Services Work
- But Are Meal Kits Really Cooking?
- The Attractions of Meal Kit Delivery Services
- Saves Time and Stress of Shopping and Meal Planning
- Illustration 3-1 Meme Posted on Facebook
- Freshness a Huge Selling Point
- No Food Is Wasted
- Teaches Cooking Skills
- Almost Foolproof
- Promotes Discovery and Introduces Variety
- Makes Exotic Ingredients Available Everywhere
- Lets Consumers Create a Gourmet Meal at Home
- Cost-Effective, Healthier Alternative to Takeout and Eating Out
- Fun to Do
- Brings People Together
- Promotes Portion Control and Caters to Special Diets
- The Criticisms
- It’s Like Paint-by-Numbers
- Too Expensive for Most People
- Something Intangible Is Lost
- Too Much Packaging/Environmentally Unsound
- Do Not Eliminate Grocery Shopping Entirely
- What? No leftovers?
- Too Much Work
- Too Much Cleanup
- Target Market
- Marketing Meal Kits Through Celebrity Chefs and Co-Branding
- Marketing, from Word-of-Mouth to National TV
- Illustration 3-2 Plated’s Road to Discovery Road Trip
- An Industry Disrupter
- A $1.5 Billion Market and Growing
- But Are They Profitable?
- Chapter 4: The Consumer
- Key Points
- Demographic Targets
- Marketers Target Professionals, Busy Families, and Millennial Urbanites
- Packaged Facts Consumer Survey
- Half of All Consumers Use Food Delivery Services
- Figure 4-1 Consumers Using Food Delivery Services in the Past 30 Days,2016 (percent of U.S. adults)
- Meal Kit Consumers Also Favor RTE Food and Grocery Deliveries
- Figure 4-2 Consumers Using Both Prepare-at Home Fresh Meal Kits and Other Food Delivery Services in the Past 30 Days, 2016 (percent of U.S.adults)
- Most Pizza and RTE Food Consumers Use Chain Restaurants for Delivery
- Table 4-1 Consumers Using Food Delivery Services in the Past 30 Days,2016 (percent of U.S. adults)
- Most Meal Kit Consumers Under Age 45
- A Whopping 79% of Meal Kit Consumers Have Kids at Home
- Hispanics and Blacks Prime for Targeting
- One Out of Three Meal Kit Consumers Lives in the West
- Nearly Two Out of Three Meal Kit Users Are Urban
- Meal Kit Users Well-Educated
- Meal Kit Delivery Use Increases Along with Income
- Table 4-2 Consumers Using Food Delivery Services in the Past 30 Days:By Age Group, 2016 (percent of U.S. adults)
- Table 4-3 Consumers Using Food Delivery Services in the Past 30 Days:By Presence of Children by Age, 2016 (percent of U.S. adults)
- Table 4-4 Consumers Using Food Delivery Services in the Past 30 Days:By Ethnic Group, 2016 (percent of U.S. adults)
- Table 4-5 Consumers Using Food Delivery Services in the Past 30 Days:By Region, 2016 (percent of U.S. adults)
- Table 4-6 Consumers Using Food Delivery Services in the Past 30 Days:By Locality (Urban, Suburban/Outer Suburban, Rural), 2016 (percent of U.S. adults)
- Table 4-7 Consumers Using Food Delivery Services in the Past 30 Days:By Level of Education, 2016 (percent of U.S. adults)
- Table 4-8 Consumers Using Food Delivery Services in the Past 30 Days:By Household Income, 2016 (percent of U.S. adults)
- Other Surveys
- Brick Meets Click: How Consumers Are Using Online Grocery
- NPD Group on Cooking at Home
- Chapter 5: The Marketers
- Key Points
- More than 150 Meal Kit Delivery Services in the USA
- Ahold USA
- A Supermarket Chain’s Take on Meal Kits
- Peapod Teams Up with Barilla to Develop Meal Kits
- Illustration 5-1 Peapod by Barilla
- Giant Carlisle Introduces In-Store Meal Kits
- Illustration 5-2 Giant Food
- Blue Apron, Inc.: The Nation’s Leader
- Largest Meal Delivery Kit Service Targets Would-Be Chefs
- Efficiency Minimizes Waste, Maximizes Profitability
- New Subscription Program Lets Customers “Wine and Dine”
- Decreasing Packaging, Increasing Market Penetration
- Illustration 5-3 Blue Apron
- Chef’d, LLC
- Bringing Professional Chefs Into America’s Kitchens
- Predictive Analysis Ensures Supply Meets Demand
- Wide-Ranging Appeal Spans Demographic Groups
- Illustration 5-4 Chef’d
- Cooking Simplified
- Affordability a Key Appeal
- Illustration 5-5 Cooking Simplified
- Din Inc.
- Recreating Restaurant Meals at Home
- Illustration 5-6 Din
- Foodstirs Inc.
- Baking and Foodcrafting Kits at the Core
- Illustration 5-7 Foodstirs
- FreshDirect LLC
- Online Grocer Delves into Meal Kits
- Illustration 5-8 FreshDirect’s FoodKick Taco Bundle
- Gobble
- “10 Minutes and One Pan”
- Illustration 5-9 Gobble
- Green Blender
- Smoothies Only
- Illustration 5-10 Green Blender
- Green Chef
- Certified Organic Meal Kits
- Illustration 5-11 Green Chef
- Handpick, Inc
- Smart Groceries
- Illustration 5-12 Handpick Smart Groceries
- HelloFresh USA
- Healthy, Tasty, and Jamie Oliver
- Illustration 5-13 HelloFresh
- Home Chef
- Variety, Flexibility, and a Midwest Approach
- Illustration 5-14 Home Chef
- Hungryroot Inc.
- Recipes Let Vegetables “Masquerade as Other Foods”
- Illustration 5-15 Hungryroot
- Just Add Cooking
- Eco-Friendly, New England Regional
- Illustration 5-16 Just Add Cooking
- Marley Spoon
- Competing with “The Weekly Grocery Shop”
- Illustration 5-17 Marley Spoon
- Munchery
- Locally Sourced, Gourmet Meals Cooked by Chefs
- Illustration 5-18 Munchery
- Pantry
- A Meal-Kits-Only Grocery Store
- Illustration 5-19 Pantry
- PeachDish
- Modern Southern Cooking
- Illustration 5-20 PeachDish
- Plated
- A Premium Service for the “Evolved Eater”
- Shark Tank Success Story
- A Leader in Sustainability
- Illustration 5-21 Plated
- The Purple Carrot
- Plant-Based Vegan Meals
- Illustration 5-22 The Purple Carrot
- Saffron Fix Inc.
- Ethnic Indian Meals
- Illustration 5-23 Saffron Fix
- Sun Basket
- Healthy California Lifestyle
- Illustration 5-24 Sun Basket
- Terra’s Kitchen LLC
- Eco-Friendly Packaging
- Illustration 5-25 Terra’s Kitchen
- Illustration 5-26 “The Vessel,” FreshRealm’s Cold Food Box
- Tyson Foods, Inc.
- Mainstream Food Producer Joins the Fray
- Illustration 5-27 Tyson Tastemakers
- Illustration 5-28 Tyson Ready for Skillet Meal Kits
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