From phone to table: Reno startup connects chefs with folks hungry for in-home dining

Benjamin Griffith, CEO of Homebite

by Kaleb Roedel, NNBW

A while back, Benjamin Griffith noticed something while gathered with family to celebrate his brother-in-law’s college graduation. 

Griffith’s mother-in-law, he realized, spent most of her time preparing and cooking food in the kitchen, missing out one time with family and friends. 

“She really got no time to spend her son’s graduation with everyone,” Griffith said in a phone interview with the NNBW. 

It reinforced a business venture that Griffith, a Reno-based entrepreneur, had been chewing on with his friend Alexander Tash, a Kansas City-based entrepreneur he met in college. 

What if, Griffith and Tash wondered, they created an app that connected chefs with people who wanted an intimate dining experience in the comfort of their own home? 

With that, Homebite was born. Simply put, the app allows people to hire local chefs that create their own menus, dictate their own prices, and set their own schedule.

While Uber is synonymous with ridesharing, Homebite hopes to carve out its own niche in “foodsharing” for chefs. 

Read the entire article in the NNBW: https://www.nnbw.com/news/from-phone-to-table-reno-startup-connects-chefs-with-folks-hungry-for-in-home-dining