Blue Apron Inc., founded in 2012, is a service that delivers ingredients and recipes to create home-cooked meals. Customers choose the number of recipes they want each week, choose their preferred delivery days, and put in their orders online. The company was created by Matt Salzberg, Ilia Papas and Russ Jen in New York City and is now headquartered in New York as well as Jersey City, NJ.
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Wild One was born out of a need to provide better designed and more functional pet products. Our line of products includes leashes, collars, harnesses, beds, bowls and treats. We work extremely hard to create well thought out products with our customers in mind. We hope these products enhance the experiences of loving your pets.
Wild One was born out of a need to provide better designed and more functional pet products. Our line of products includes leashes, collars, harnesses, beds, bowls and treats. We work extremely hard to create well thought out products with our customers in mind. We hope these products enhance the experiences of loving your pets.
Wild One was born out of a need to provide better designed and more functional pet products. Our line of products includes leashes, collars, harnesses, beds, bowls and treats. We work extremely hard to create well thought out products with our customers in mind. We hope these products enhance the experiences of loving your pets.
- Good variety of meals to choose from and pricing is reasonable.
- Meals are delicious and do exactly as advertised.
- Easy to follow recipes with quality ingredients.
- Recipes are detailed and include images to help anyone new to cooking.
- Introduces new ingredients and techniques.
- Makes week night meals easy and the food is good.
- Fun way to learn how to cook new recipes and have a fun evening in the kitchen.
- Not prepped to use.
- Cannot share meals.
- A lot of packaging.
- Servings are small.
- Meals can be a bit involved and not suitable for picky eaters or large families.
- Expensive.
- Basic/cheap ingredients that produce unremarkable, simple dishes.
- Recipes can be labor intensive and underestimated.
- Menu is simplistic and ingredients necessarily streamlined/unremarkable.
- Subscription isn't friendly to manage.
- More weekly selections would be great.
- A lot of packaging and insulation used for delivery.
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