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The founders of a new app and online marketplace听offering听the best in home-cooked food to your door听say the model could be scaled across the UK.听

Cook My Grub, founded in February 2020,听launched in听Berkshire听late last year听and听has seen 250% growth month–on–month.听It is currently available in Slough and Maidenhead.听

Providing a new twist to takeaways听by offering authentic home cooked food at the touch of a button,听other local launches planned in the next few months听with a wider UK launch before the end of the year.听

Cook My Grub has听been helping furloughed chefs听and aspiring home cooks to earn as much as 拢3,000 a month and build听their听brand and business.听

The company was started in February this year by two serial entrepreneur friends, Shabbir听Mookhtiar听and Dinesh Patil,听who听saw听a gap in the market for authentic and healthy home–cooked food that could easily be delivered to people鈥檚 homes through a mobile app.听听

It also wants to solve the problem of people cooking unregulated and unsafe food and selling it illegally through channels such as Facebook Marketplace.听

Since September, Cook My Grub has delivered over 1,000 Indian and world cuisine meals听from 40 chefs.听听

Brands like Raquel鈥檚 Kitchen in Maidenhead have offered European cuisine such as warming Beef Bourguignon, while Vegi Kitchen in Maidenhead has served up authentic North Indian dishes like Rajasthani Thali.听

Vidya Jadhav, or ‘Mumbai听Tadka’ on the Cook My grub app, is originally from India, married and lives close to Maidenhead town centre. She now earns 拢300 a week via the app.听

She had only ever cooked at home for friends and family 鈥� sometimes large gatherings of 10-15 people in Paris, where she lived until recently 鈥� but听now has听2-3 orders a day听via the app after joining in September.听听

On Fridays she can have 7-8 orders for speciality dishes such as听chicken and prawn Konkani, a recipe from the Konkan region which is very hard to find outside India.听听

Individual chefs are star-rated by the consumers to keep standards high, and each home cook is vetted by the founders before coming on board.听听

Co-founder Shabbir听Mookhtiar听said: 鈥淲e are so thrilled to have had such enthusiastic support from the community since September, and we鈥檝e also loved seeing new home chefs come on board and start building a following for their food through the site.听听

鈥淥ur next goal is to launch in Swindon, Marlow in January and West London, Reading, and High Wycombe by June.听听

鈥�There is no one out there offering really genuine home-cooked world cuisine to consumers, and the success so far has shown this is scalable nationwide.鈥�听