I love this idea. I recently saw a documentary about the home-cooked lunch business in India -- basically women, often single mothers, cooking great food at home and then middlemen selling it on a subscription level to office workers.
But how do you reconcile "home-made" (as opposed to restaurant-made) with whatever Health Department equivalent operates in your area?
Are you just planning an end-run around regulations[0] a la Uber/AirBnB?
As far as I can tell, in most of the US (and probably many other countries) this isn't quite legal[1], for a combination of bad and good reasons.
1. Reconciling the "home-made" food with restaurant food is not really necessary. It just gives home chefs to compete with restaurants regardless of whether or not they use this service. It is like Airbnb where regular folks like us can list our homes, but they don't stop commercial properties listing either.
2. As for regulations, yes for now run around the regulations until it gets really noticed. If it does, that means we already gained some traction. Recently many states introduced "cottage food laws", where they allow limited amount of food selling considered non-commercial, but I believe the food items are limited as well. We have to see how this goes. This is indeed an area of concern.
3. This type of business if not quite illegal. Most of it falls under gray area with "collage food laws".
But how do you reconcile "home-made" (as opposed to restaurant-made) with whatever Health Department equivalent operates in your area?
Are you just planning an end-run around regulations[0] a la Uber/AirBnB?
As far as I can tell, in most of the US (and probably many other countries) this isn't quite legal[1], for a combination of bad and good reasons.
[0]: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/licenses-need-home-cooking-bu... [1]: https://www.fastcompany.com/3061498/the-food-sharing-economy...