Kitchen Startup Ideas

4 years ago

A digital platform for automated room service ordering in hotels. Users can order from a menu of the hotel’s dishes, and the order is sent to the kitchen directly. The startup is working with a dozen hotels in India.

1,109

4 years ago

A mobile solution to ensure that restaurant kitchens aren’t overworking staff during busy periods.

197

5 years ago

A startup that turns unused kitchen appliances into bitcoin mining rigs

191

4 years ago

The startup is building an ecosystem of connected devices that’s meant to make the kitchen smarter. It’s a modular system, with sensors such as a thermometer and a oven that work together to track food and cook times.

187

5 years ago

A SaaS-based solution meant to help restaurants manage their “digital kitchen”.

186

4 years ago

This startup asks the question: “What if you could make your kitchen more efficient” If you want to save money on electricity, the company says, you could make your kitchen more efficient, cut down on your food waste, save time, and eat healthier.

186

4 years ago

A restaurant that allows customers to order food on their phones. The app is meant to be a more human interface to the kitchen and to reduce wait times at the restaurant.

179

5 years ago

Food delivery for restaurant kitchens — the company provides a central platform for kitchens to manage orders, and payment is handled via a proprietary service that only the restaurants can use

178

5 years ago

Bringing good food to your kitchen and your home.

170

4 years ago

A mobile app that helps restaurant workers stay in the kitchen, letting them monitor orders, prep, and cook more efficiently.

165

5 years ago

A business that will help people make the most out of their kitchen’s free-form surfaces, like cutting boards and cutting boards with built-in shelves.

163

5 years ago

A hardware company building a connected kitchen to help manage and measure food preparation.

161

5 years ago

A company that sells cool kitchen tops and pours that promote healthy eating habits

160

5 years ago

A kitchen system called the “KitchenPod” that’s meant to let you cook, then take the result home for later. The kitchen has a base unit, and a separate pod that connects to a smartphone. The fridge is connected to the base unit via Bluetooth, so it can track things like what you’re eating and how much of it you’re eating. When the pod is connected to the base unit, it can track the fridge’s temperature, as well as how much food it’s holding.

153

5 years ago

This app for restaurant managers lets them manage their restaurant’s food costs. The app is designed for restaurants with a large number of employees and several kitchens, and helps them track costs and improve efficiency.

148

5 years ago

A way to help fast food restaurants manage the waste they produce in their kitchens and on their premises. For every burger they’re able to cut, the startup is able to feed a human in need.

147

2 years ago

This startup wants to make “kitchenware box” technology available to everyone. It is building a subscription-based smart kitchen network for scale-up companies, and such as it is not available in the UK yet is set to roll out in the US this summer.

146

3 years ago

A kitchen appliance that assists you with meal planning, grocery shopping and meal preparation.

144

5 years ago

A startup that offers data-driven insights into the performance of a restaurant’s kitchen team.

138

5 years ago

A startup that wants to help small businesses make use of the time they spend in the kitchen. It’s a way of connecting people with other people who cook at the same level as them, and a way to help them learn from each other.

132

5 years ago

A way for people who need to move into a new apartment to take a photo of their living room or kitchen and quickly see a comprehensive price list of what it would cost to remodel it. The startup says it’s profitable and has a $150,000 monthly revenue run rate.

127

4 years ago

A company that sells kitchen equipment and supplies with a mobile app.

125

4 years ago

A company that builds and maintains a digital kitchen and dining guide (think a Yelp-style app for food).

112

5 years ago

A startup that wants to build a digital kitchen, with a programmable fridge, a robot, and a system for collecting and processing your data.

111

4 years ago

A startup that helps people get the most out of the 1.5 million items they have stored in their kitchen and pantry with a web-based software that allows them to create shopping lists, organize items, and track purchases. They’re also developing a separate mobile app.

111

5 years ago

A tiny kitchen appliance that can make up to 50 different types of foods.

110

3 years ago

This startup is building a tool for people who want to start their own Airbnb-like site to rent out their rooms. They’re targeting “micro-hosts” who want to supplement their income by renting out a spare room, kitchen, or patio space.

99

5 years ago

Idea: Put a camera in the kitchen and tell the world about what you make

96

5 years ago

A startup that provides on-demand access to a local barista. The concept is similar to Uber Eats, except these “district kitchens” are meant to be in neighborhoods that don’t have their own cafes. The service is currently only available in one city, but plans to expand to others in the near future.

94

4 years ago

A company building a $10,000 smart kitchen device that can track and measure food production, helping people get to know the nutritional value of their food, and making it easier to cook healthier food.

92

5 years ago

A web and mobile app for restaurants, allowing them to manage their kitchen operations from anywhere in the world. The startup also works with the restaurant delivery companies Postmates and DoorDash.

89

4 years ago

A real-time scheduling software for restaurants. It aims to replace the clunky, paper-based scheduling systems that exist today, and allow restaurants to manage wait staff, kitchen schedules and more.

86

4 years ago

A “game-changing” way to interact with a refrigerator. The startup wants to combine the features of a smartphone with a microwave oven to create a connected kitchen appliance that lets you shop and cook from any device.

85

3 years ago

The startup sells a 3D-printed “smart” kitchen that helps you control your home appliances from a smartphone.

83

4 years ago

A startup that helps companies provide food delivery to their employees. The startup is working with companies such as California Pizza Kitchen, Denny's, and Pei Wei to bring in revenue. The startup screens customers for a monthly membership fee of around $10 and works on a monthly basis. The startup says they have over 5,000 active customers, with over $2 million in monthly revenue.

82

5 years ago

This is a tool that helps restaurants make better use of their kitchen space. The startup’s product is a kitchen hand-held scanner that helps chefs size up customers to decide what to cook based on their food orders.

80

4 years ago

A platform for meal-kit delivery designed to eliminate the “kitchen limbo” where people lose track of how much is left in the fridge and need to go buy more. It streamlines the process of sending the meal components to the client, then doing the cooking for the client and keeping track of when it needs to be delivered.

77

4 years ago

A product that combines a “digital kitchen scale” with a connected kitchen appliance. The goal is to make cooking more precise; for instance, you can measure the exact amount of rice you’re using.

76

3 years ago

A homeware startup that makes a glass-door kitchen island, but they don’t know yet how much they’ll charge.

76

4 years ago

The startup makes a product called "The Chef's Helper," which it says is a "lean efficiency platform" for kitchen operations.

74

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps restaurants in India optimize their kitchen workflow, and take advantage of technology like smart fridges and credit card processing.

72

3 years ago

IFTTT, that connects the Internet of Things to your other applications and services. The startup is trying to build a “connected” kitchen in India that can monitor how clean the kitchen is, how many times the door has opened, and how much food is left in the fridge.

71

4 years ago

A startup that is looking to “reinvent the kitchen” and build a “digital kitchen,” which is a new way of cooking that is based on technology.

70

4 years ago

A company that makes a smart kitchen scale that measures weight, BMI, and body fat percentage.

70

4 years ago

A startup that lets you run a kitchen and bar business on the side or full time, or just help out in a friend’s kitchen for a night.

69

3 years ago

The startup is developing a new kind of appliance that can be used both inside and out of the home. It can be used as a coffee machine in the kitchen, a set-top box in the living room and as a smart plug elsewhere.

68

3 years ago

An invitation-only startup that helps restaurants and bars find and pool bartenders, kitchen staff, and more through a specialized job aggregator. The company wants to improve the bar industry experience.

67

3 years ago

This startup is building kitchen tools that let you build food, order food, and pay for it all online.

65

4 years ago

A food ordering service built around the idea of an “open kitchen”: diners can order directly from the chef.

64

2 years ago

Food delivery that uses software to help restaurants keep track of kitchen inventory, sales, and inventory.

64

3 years ago

A startup that provides subscriptions for a “smart” kitchen in which everything on the market is connected to a central system. It’s working with a hardware manufacturer on a modular smart refrigerator that works with an app.

63

3 years ago

A “food-delivery-as-a-service” startup that has launched in LA, San Francisco and New York. It’s a Web-based ordering system for restaurant kitchens, letting them order food for pickup or delivery and track delivery times.

61

4 years ago

A "kitchen scale with a twist": a smart scale that tells you whether you're cooking healthy or not. The scale can connect to the internet through your smartphone, and will send the results to an app on your phone for you to analyze.

59

3 years ago

This startup is building a “digital kitchen” that enables chefs to make and review recipes on the fly.

58

3 years ago

An on-demand marketplace for renting out commercial kitchen equipment for wedding catering, events, and other use.

56

3 years ago

The company is building a modular kitchen that allows you to pick the style you want and the size you want, then get a delivery date and install date, and then get a personalized installation guide.

55

3 years ago

A startup that helps your kitchen and home office become a “smart place”

54

3 years ago

A startup that wants to create a one-stop marketplace for healthcare and home goods — from doctor’s appointments to kitchen essentials. It’s a B2B business, with healthcare providers handing over their patients to a doctor to manage their care and sending in goods.

53

3 years ago

A startup that helps people find and manage their local food pantries, soup kitchens, food shelves, shelters, and other similar community organizations.

52

3 years ago

A food delivery service with a focus on vegetarian/vegan meals and rooftop urban kitchens.

51

3 years ago

This mobile application helps restaurant owners make better decisions about what to order when. The app makes it easier for them to order based on factors like the last time a dish was ordered, a chef’s recommendation, and what ingredients are available in the kitchen.

49

3 years ago

A food delivery app with a one-hour delivery guarantee, that targets customers that want to make food and order it in, but don’t want to be stuck in the kitchen making it.

48

3 years ago

A company that wants to bring a more collaborative, flexible alternative to Slack. The company’s CEO is focused on the project so deeply that he’s been known to send his employees to work from the kitchen while they’re cooking, getting all of their orders out and done.

48

3 years ago

Yupi is an app-based ordering system designed to replace the need to call in an order or visit a restaurant. The startup is building an app that allows customers to order food, and the app will call the chef and place the order, which gets then sent directly to the kitchen. The chef can also text back and tell the app when they’re done with their orders.

46

3 years ago

A startup for “food-as-a-service” startups that want to grow quickly with minimal overhead. The idea is to help startups provide a full set of food and kitchen services for startups, for $1,000 per month. The first batch of startups is a handful of restaurants in Philadelphia’s Queen Village neighborhood.

41

2 years ago

This startup wants to build a small-scale production environment for food and beverage companies, allowing them to test new products in small batches and develop them at a faster pace. The startup wants to create an “industrial kitchen” for $500-$1,000.

40

2 years ago

Co-working space for freelancers, located in New York City. The space is designed to encourage collaboration, with desks scattered around the common areas and a large kitchen. Red Kettle says it’s already hosted over 150 startups, and is currently looking to expand.

30

2 years ago

This startup is building a network of in-home cooks who make meals for people who have food allergies or food restrictions. The company says they’ve already built one of these kitchens and built a toolkit for others to use.

24

2 years ago

A company that sells kitchenware, including stoves and cookware, with an emphasis on innovation and materials.

24

2 years ago

A startup that provides “hippie-style” living to people looking for a more sustainable lifestyle. It provides a studio apartment with a studio bed, desk, and a kitchen that lets people live in a “micro-home” with their roommates.

20

2 years ago

This startup is building an automation service for kitchen and bathroom remodels that helps contractors and contractors’ customers plan and track their work.

19

2 years ago

A startup to help users and businesses find the right dishwashers, microwaves, and other kitchen appliances. The startup is focused on “inexpensive” kitchen appliances.

18

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that makes smart home devices. One of its products, a WiFi-connected laser for the kitchen called Clipi, automatically adds a plant-based seasoning to food as it cooks.

15

2 years ago

A startup that helps homeowners choose replacements for common household items like roofing tiles, kitchen appliances, flooring, and lighting. It’s an easy way to shop for similar products online, and then see them in person at a local store.

15

2 years ago

A company that helps companies find the best kitchens through a mobile app that enables users to search a database of past kitchen projects and see what’s working or not working.

11

5 years ago

Idea: A simple way for people to pre-order food online from local restaurants, picking up their food without waiting in a line or ordering into a kitchen. Customers place an order on the website, and then the startup calls the restaurant to confirm. The startup says it’s grown 10% week-over-week for the last year.

9

5 years ago

Idea: A maker of a line of smart kitchen products which includes a smart juicer, a smart steamer, and a smart knife sharpener.

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Kitchen Startup Ideas

A digital platform for automated room service ordering in hotels. Users can order from a menu of the hotel’s dishes, and the order is sent to the kitchen directly. The startup is working with a dozen hotels in India.

A mobile solution to ensure that restaurant kitchens aren’t overworking staff during busy periods.

A startup that turns unused kitchen appliances into bitcoin mining rigs

The startup is building an ecosystem of connected devices that’s meant to make the kitchen smarter. It’s a modular system, with sensors such as a thermometer and a oven that work together to track food and cook times.

A SaaS-based solution meant to help restaurants manage their “digital kitchen”.

This startup asks the question: “What if you could make your kitchen more efficient” If you want to save money on electricity, the company says, you could make your kitchen more efficient, cut down on your food waste, save time, and eat healthier.

A restaurant that allows customers to order food on their phones. The app is meant to be a more human interface to the kitchen and to reduce wait times at the restaurant.

Food delivery for restaurant kitchens — the company provides a central platform for kitchens to manage orders, and payment is handled via a proprietary service that only the restaurants can use

Bringing good food to your kitchen and your home.

A mobile app that helps restaurant workers stay in the kitchen, letting them monitor orders, prep, and cook more efficiently.

A business that will help people make the most out of their kitchen’s free-form surfaces, like cutting boards and cutting boards with built-in shelves.

A hardware company building a connected kitchen to help manage and measure food preparation.

A company that sells cool kitchen tops and pours that promote healthy eating habits

This app for restaurant managers lets them manage their restaurant’s food costs. The app is designed for restaurants with a large number of employees and several kitchens, and helps them track costs and improve efficiency.

A way to help fast food restaurants manage the waste they produce in their kitchens and on their premises. For every burger they’re able to cut, the startup is able to feed a human in need.

This startup wants to make “kitchenware box” technology available to everyone. It is building a subscription-based smart kitchen network for scale-up companies, and such as it is not available in the UK yet is set to roll out in the US this summer.

A kitchen appliance that assists you with meal planning, grocery shopping and meal preparation.

A startup that offers data-driven insights into the performance of a restaurant’s kitchen team.

A startup that wants to help small businesses make use of the time they spend in the kitchen. It’s a way of connecting people with other people who cook at the same level as them, and a way to help them learn from each other.

A way for people who need to move into a new apartment to take a photo of their living room or kitchen and quickly see a comprehensive price list of what it would cost to remodel it. The startup says it’s profitable and has a $150,000 monthly revenue run rate.

A company that sells kitchen equipment and supplies with a mobile app.

A company that builds and maintains a digital kitchen and dining guide (think a Yelp-style app for food).

A startup that wants to build a digital kitchen, with a programmable fridge, a robot, and a system for collecting and processing your data.

A startup that helps people get the most out of the 1.5 million items they have stored in their kitchen and pantry with a web-based software that allows them to create shopping lists, organize items, and track purchases. They’re also developing a separate mobile app.

A tiny kitchen appliance that can make up to 50 different types of foods.

This startup is building a tool for people who want to start their own Airbnb-like site to rent out their rooms. They’re targeting “micro-hosts” who want to supplement their income by renting out a spare room, kitchen, or patio space.

Idea: Put a camera in the kitchen and tell the world about what you make

A company building a $10,000 smart kitchen device that can track and measure food production, helping people get to know the nutritional value of their food, and making it easier to cook healthier food.

A web and mobile app for restaurants, allowing them to manage their kitchen operations from anywhere in the world. The startup also works with the restaurant delivery companies Postmates and DoorDash.

A real-time scheduling software for restaurants. It aims to replace the clunky, paper-based scheduling systems that exist today, and allow restaurants to manage wait staff, kitchen schedules and more.

A “game-changing” way to interact with a refrigerator. The startup wants to combine the features of a smartphone with a microwave oven to create a connected kitchen appliance that lets you shop and cook from any device.

The startup sells a 3D-printed “smart” kitchen that helps you control your home appliances from a smartphone.

This is a tool that helps restaurants make better use of their kitchen space. The startup’s product is a kitchen hand-held scanner that helps chefs size up customers to decide what to cook based on their food orders.

A product that combines a “digital kitchen scale” with a connected kitchen appliance. The goal is to make cooking more precise; for instance, you can measure the exact amount of rice you’re using.

A homeware startup that makes a glass-door kitchen island, but they don’t know yet how much they’ll charge.

The startup makes a product called "The Chef's Helper," which it says is a "lean efficiency platform" for kitchen operations.

Idea: A startup that helps restaurants in India optimize their kitchen workflow, and take advantage of technology like smart fridges and credit card processing.

IFTTT, that connects the Internet of Things to your other applications and services. The startup is trying to build a “connected” kitchen in India that can monitor how clean the kitchen is, how many times the door has opened, and how much food is left in the fridge.

A startup that is looking to “reinvent the kitchen” and build a “digital kitchen,” which is a new way of cooking that is based on technology.

A company that makes a smart kitchen scale that measures weight, BMI, and body fat percentage.

A startup that lets you run a kitchen and bar business on the side or full time, or just help out in a friend’s kitchen for a night.

The startup is developing a new kind of appliance that can be used both inside and out of the home. It can be used as a coffee machine in the kitchen, a set-top box in the living room and as a smart plug elsewhere.

An invitation-only startup that helps restaurants and bars find and pool bartenders, kitchen staff, and more through a specialized job aggregator. The company wants to improve the bar industry experience.

This startup is building kitchen tools that let you build food, order food, and pay for it all online.

A food ordering service built around the idea of an “open kitchen”: diners can order directly from the chef.

Food delivery that uses software to help restaurants keep track of kitchen inventory, sales, and inventory.

A startup that provides subscriptions for a “smart” kitchen in which everything on the market is connected to a central system. It’s working with a hardware manufacturer on a modular smart refrigerator that works with an app.

A “food-delivery-as-a-service” startup that has launched in LA, San Francisco and New York. It’s a Web-based ordering system for restaurant kitchens, letting them order food for pickup or delivery and track delivery times.

A "kitchen scale with a twist": a smart scale that tells you whether you're cooking healthy or not. The scale can connect to the internet through your smartphone, and will send the results to an app on your phone for you to analyze.

This startup is building a “digital kitchen” that enables chefs to make and review recipes on the fly.

An on-demand marketplace for renting out commercial kitchen equipment for wedding catering, events, and other use.

The company is building a modular kitchen that allows you to pick the style you want and the size you want, then get a delivery date and install date, and then get a personalized installation guide.

A startup that helps your kitchen and home office become a “smart place”

A startup that wants to create a one-stop marketplace for healthcare and home goods — from doctor’s appointments to kitchen essentials. It’s a B2B business, with healthcare providers handing over their patients to a doctor to manage their care and sending in goods.

A startup that helps people find and manage their local food pantries, soup kitchens, food shelves, shelters, and other similar community organizations.

A food delivery service with a focus on vegetarian/vegan meals and rooftop urban kitchens.

This mobile application helps restaurant owners make better decisions about what to order when. The app makes it easier for them to order based on factors like the last time a dish was ordered, a chef’s recommendation, and what ingredients are available in the kitchen.

A food delivery app with a one-hour delivery guarantee, that targets customers that want to make food and order it in, but don’t want to be stuck in the kitchen making it.

A company that wants to bring a more collaborative, flexible alternative to Slack. The company’s CEO is focused on the project so deeply that he’s been known to send his employees to work from the kitchen while they’re cooking, getting all of their orders out and done.

This startup wants to build a small-scale production environment for food and beverage companies, allowing them to test new products in small batches and develop them at a faster pace. The startup wants to create an “industrial kitchen” for $500-$1,000.

Co-working space for freelancers, located in New York City. The space is designed to encourage collaboration, with desks scattered around the common areas and a large kitchen. Red Kettle says it’s already hosted over 150 startups, and is currently looking to expand.

This startup is building a network of in-home cooks who make meals for people who have food allergies or food restrictions. The company says they’ve already built one of these kitchens and built a toolkit for others to use.

A company that sells kitchenware, including stoves and cookware, with an emphasis on innovation and materials.

A startup that provides “hippie-style” living to people looking for a more sustainable lifestyle. It provides a studio apartment with a studio bed, desk, and a kitchen that lets people live in a “micro-home” with their roommates.

This startup is building an automation service for kitchen and bathroom remodels that helps contractors and contractors’ customers plan and track their work.

A startup to help users and businesses find the right dishwashers, microwaves, and other kitchen appliances. The startup is focused on “inexpensive” kitchen appliances.

Idea: A startup that makes smart home devices. One of its products, a WiFi-connected laser for the kitchen called Clipi, automatically adds a plant-based seasoning to food as it cooks.

A startup that helps homeowners choose replacements for common household items like roofing tiles, kitchen appliances, flooring, and lighting. It’s an easy way to shop for similar products online, and then see them in person at a local store.

A company that helps companies find the best kitchens through a mobile app that enables users to search a database of past kitchen projects and see what’s working or not working.

Idea: A maker of a line of smart kitchen products which includes a smart juicer, a smart steamer, and a smart knife sharpener.