We're Ten Years Old! Dinner Elf was founded in 2014 by a wife and husband team (Nicole and Jesse) in Austin, TX. The company started when Nicole sent me an email. We decided to use professional chefs without kids. 😀 We asked for business feedback on Facebook. We asked for recipe feedback from co-workers. We
New recipes and AI The press is full of possibilities using AI or ChatGPT to write a paper, cure cancer, etc. How can this growing technology help Dinner Elf? One bottleneck to creating new recipes for Dinner Elf has been creating great photos. Back in 2015, I took the photos myself (ugly). Then we
Dallas Expansion We're excited to now be cooking in North Dallas! Know anyone in South Lake, Flower Mound, Little Elm, Prosper, Frisco, The Colony, or Plano who might like some home-cooked love? Let 'em know! More areas in Dallas - Ft. Worth are coming soon.
1,000th 5-Star Review! We're so excited to announce that we received our 1,000th 5-star review [https://dinnerelf.com/reviews/] today! To put this achievement in context, to get a single 5-star review is really, really hard. People are busy. Here's what has to happen... * A customer books an
Price change To keep our amazing chefs and to help add new ones, we're increasing our service fee to $135 from $124. All of this increase will go directly to chef pay. Through technology and low overhead, we work hard to keep our prices low, so we don't
Expansion to Denver! I'm excited to announce Dinner Elf is now cooking in Denver. 🎉 Why did we choose Denver? * It's an amazing city. * I moved to Denver a few years ago from Austin and I want a chef. 😀 We'll be cooking from Boulder to Denver to Littleton.
Company news New pricing Today we're announcing an increase in our pricing to $124 (from $99) + ingredients for a chef to grocery shop, cook three nights of family size dinners in your home, and clean up. Why? We work hard to keep our prices low, but this increase is necessary to create
COVID COVID-19 Safety Protocols 😷NEW SAFETY PROTOCOLS Since 2014, our customers, from busy families to immunocompromised patients, have trusted Dinner Elf to fix dinner. Safety has always been our top priority, and we’ve added extra precautions. 👩🍳ELVES Your Elf will wear a mask to grocery shop and in your home. Upon entry, they’
Austin Summer Hacks For Busy Families: Turquoise Tuesdays We just put a Turquoise Table [http://www.kristinschell.com/the-turquoise-table/] in our front yard. This table is a bright, kitschy signal that we are part of the “front yard people” movement. This means we are people who want to know and live in community with our neighbors. This summer,
