Mobile Startups Deliver Home-Cooked Meals in Fast Food 2.0: Tech

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If Nicole Jensen craves a hot meal prepared by an experienced chef, she simply taps an order into an application on her iPhone. Within 20 minutes, Jensen’s dinner -— today it’s a vegetarian goat cheese tart with a side of lentils -— is hand-delivered to her San Francisco home, courtesy of Sprig.

In a kitchen once occupied by a Chevy’s Fresh Mex restaurant near the Civic Center, Sprig Inc.’s Nate Keller, a former executive chef at Google Inc., whips up meals from healthy, locally sourced, organic ingredients, Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its Oct. 27 issue.