What is a meal assembly kitchen?
We are glad you asked! A meal assembly kitchen is the ultimate partner in helping busy families get healthy, tasty dinners prepared. The typical kitchen has 12 to 16 stations that look like salad bars. Each station includes all of the ingredients necessary to put together a main entrée that serves 4 to 6. The ingredients are already chopped, sliced, and/or cut. Customers either order meals pre-assembled, or visit the kitchen and follow detailed instructions at each station to assemble their own meals. Buying and preparing the ingredients, as well as cleaning up the mess, is the responsibility of the meal assembly kitchen. Customers can order up to 12 meals, and take them home in freezer bags for use at a later date. Actual cooking happens at home. Why are meal assembly kitchens so popular? The ‘nuclear family’ of today scarcely resembles the Cleavers of the 1950s. Today’s hard working heads-of-household find themselves time- and energy-challenged when it comes to putting a tasty, nutri
