Home-cooked food,
community, and love.
Affordable meal kits and groceries, built in Detroit.
Our mission.
Our Kitchen is a Detroit low-profit LLC (L3C) built to make quality, affordable food accessible to every neighborhood in the city. We allow you to pick up food at convenient spots in the neighborhood. Our food is sold cost-plus-small-margin and we will accept SNAP/EBT. Our employees own the L3C and our communities own our brick-and-mortar locations.
Detroit's food access gap.
- ~69%of Detroit residents struggle to access quality foodDetroit Food Policy Council, 2021
- 165thDetroit ranks 165th out of 182 for healthiest U.S. citiesWalletHub, 2026
- $500Min grocery spending leaves the city each yearDetroit Economic Growth Corporation, 2018
What makes Our Kitchen different.
- Minimal-waste, pre-portioned meal kits
Every ingredient is pre-portioned, saving you time and money, and cutting down on waste. We design our process and packaging to keep food fresher, costs lower, and waste minimal, so we can pass on the savings to you.
- Lower prices, no lock-in or surprise bills
We let you set a weekly goal and lower our prices as you stick to it — you only pay for orders you place when you place them. We care more about your well-being and trust, which is why we'd rather you choose Our Kitchen each week than lock you in or take money we haven't earned.
- SNAP/EBT & Double Up Food Bucks
We will accept SNAP/EBT. As soon as possible, we will participate in Michigan's Double Up Food Bucks program to double the value of SNAP dollars spent on eligible produce.
- Team and community ownership
Every member of our team earns a living wage and holds equity in our L3C. At its core, Our Kitchen is an incubator for community-owned food: when we create brick-and-mortar locations, we turn them over to community ownership so our neighbors can reinvest the proceeds of their work and food spending back into the community.
The founder.
Founder
"I grew up in metro Detroit, with the example of a mother who kept homemade meals on the table even when time and money were tight. I founded Our Kitchen because feeding the people we care about should be easier than it is. Our product is love.
My goal is to build a business that outlives any of us and only succeeds when we put greater resources in the hands of our communities. While I bring lessons from over a decade in innovation, operations, technology, and public policy, that goal is only possible with a huge community supporting and trusting us. If our vision resonates with you, join us as a neighbor, partner, or part of our team!"
Careers.
Our Kitchen is small and growing carefully. We're not actively recruiting right now, but if you're a Detroiter who wants to get involved, write us at jake@ourkitchendetroit.org.
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