Frank Manning (https://www.linkedin.com/in/manningfrank) is our special guest on today's episode of PDX Small Business Podcast. He is the owner of StayinPDX (https://stayinpdx.com/), that's about a meal kit delivery service. You will get a meal kit that has all the ingredients you need to create an awesome, delicious meal—but they’ll deliver it right to your office using fresh, locally-sourced ingredients so dinner is ready to be made as soon as you get home.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN:
* His business, StayinPDX. His goal was to get people to connect over food and make it really easy by providing locally-sourced ingredients for a meal you can make in thirty to forty minutes. We also talk about when the company got started; November 2016, in case you were curious, but he took some time off to revamp the idea and eventually turned it into what StayinPDX is today.
* How StayinPDX works. The gist is a company, such as an office, can sign up with StayinPDX and pay a small, monthly delivery fee. Then, the employees of that company can go onto the StayinPDX website and order their meals and have them delivered directly to their office—and you can order up until 1PM day of delivery!
* Why they cater to businesses. With services like Blue Apron, there’s something called the “last mile commute”—where the package of ingredients has to travel that last bit of distance from the delivery’s Portland place of origin to your house. By delivering to businesses instead, it cuts the amount of emissions needed for a delivery significantly, since the customer is going to make that last mile commute themself.
* How to get StayinPDX in your office! They usually work with HR folks, but just suggest it to someone in your company and see if it’s something they’d be interested in signing up for. If they ARE interested, make sure you do it fast; StayinPDX only takes on one new client per week!
