: Home Chefs Are Earning upto a Lakh a Month, Thanks to This Noida Startup #IndiaNEWS #Empowerment After Monika Chhatwal’s husband passed away earlier this year, the financial burden of running the

Home Chefs Are Earning upto a Lakh a Month, Thanks to This Noida Startup #IndiaNEWS #Empowerment
After Monika Chhatwal’s husband passed away earlier this year, the financial burden of running the home entirely fell on her. With two children in the house, she had to find a stable livelihood.
So, she gave up her dream of opening a restaurant. But she still wanted to cook. So she looked for opportunities to sell food from her own kitchen in Noida.
But how could one start collecting orders other than through social media? Like so many of us, Monika could not build an app, or spend all her time marketing herself. She could cook for sure. But needed a place to sell digitally.
Monika found her opportunity via ‘Homefoodi’ in February. Homefoodi is an app where customers can directly order from home chefs. And thus Monika began her entrepreneurial journey with ‘Monika Kitchen’.
She started with a few orders, and the response has been overwhelming. “Dahi Bhalla, Pav Bhaaji and Biryanis are our popular food items. It is very encouraging to see 362 reviews and 685 likes for our ‘Kitchen’ on the app. We deliver to social gatherings and corporate functions as well, which makes our monthly earnings touch almost a lakh,??? says Harshita, Monika’s daughter.
Harshita, who is a school teacher, does the cutting and chopping and takes care of sourcing the right ingredients, “Financial independence is the biggest advantage, and mom is thrilled. ???
Like Monika, there are close to 250 home chefs who are unleashing their love for food and entrepreneurship via the Homefoodi app, launched in October 2019.
Homefoodi, a Noida-based startup founded by husband-wife duo, Narendra Singh and Dr Mona Dahiya, is a mobile app (available on Android and iOS) that brings authentic local cuisines from home chefs to customer doorsteps.
Dr Mona and Narendra, founders of Homefoodi
“There are two goals we aim to achieve,??? Narendra and Dr Mona tell The Better India. “Financially empower homemakers by getting the right value for their culinary skills and make home-cooked meals accessible with just one click. ???
The food venture is not your typical cloud or commercial kitchen as the food is not prepared in advance and kept ready for delivery. The chef begins preparations only after a customer places an order. That’s why the average waiting time is longer (45 minutes) under this ecosystem.
The app is a one-stop destination for regional and global cuisines that include everything, from a simple brunch choice of Kadhi Pakoda with Chawal, to Kashmir’s delight Mutton Rogan Josh, Rajasthani Dal Baati Churma, Gujarat’s Khaman Dhokla to sweets like Motichur ke Ladoo, Jalebi, Sewaiya Kheer.
The Ghar Ka Khana emotion is kept alive in every dish as all the FSSAI-registered chefs strictly follow hygiene protocols and sprinkle it with their love, “Only fresh ingredients and vegetables are used, and food is safely packed in containers.

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