#23 A home-cooked meal doesn’t have to be cooked in your home. Using the online platform, diners can order fresh, delicious meals made by members of their local community. The service helps talented cooks—many of them immigrants and women—earn money doing something they love, all from the comfort of their own kitchens.
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To eat in New York is to be spoiled with choice. Why settle for mere Chinese food when you can select from restaurants that specialize in Hunan, Henan, or Yunnan dishes? But there are limits: Some cuisines are too niche to sustain a commercial operation; others shine best when made on a small scale.
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The new online marketplace Shef connects customers with food entrepreneurs – many of whom are immigrants or refugees – working out of their homes. Correspondent Lilia Luciano looks at how Shef is offering opportunities to aspiring chefs (75 percent of whom are women) preparing cuisine from nearly 100 countries.
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Thanks to recent local legislative changes, Shef has expanded rapidly–offering a lifeline for immigrants and other frontline workers displaced by the pandemic.
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Launched in 2019, Shef provides freshly cooked meals that customers can browse and order to be delivered. Shef uses local, home cooks that are trained and safety certified.
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The corporate social responsibility category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors corporate initiatives that use a company’s platform and power to help advance change, either internally or for the community.
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This year’s list honors businesses that are making the biggest impact on their industries and culture as a whole—ultimately thriving in today’s ever-changing world. These companies are creating the future today with some of the most inspiring accomplishments of the 21st century.
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We’re excited to share the 2022 YC Top Companies. In addition to the list of top companies, we also launched the YC Breakthrough Companies list to highlight the fast-growing startups that have received significant additional investment from YC.
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“Laila Mir, a former accountant and financial advisor, is now cooking and delivering each week nearly a hundred home-cooked Afghan meals for the refugees, with help from Shef, a regional online food service specializing in ethnic cuisines.”
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