With Home-Cooked Meals to Go, This Ridley Chef’s Business Is Thriving
A chef in Ridley may have found a way around the limitations imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times.
Chef Jeff Palladino and Alenrry Iniguez recently opened Chef Jeff’s Hot Meals to Go at 718 MacDade Blvd., and it is thriving.
For $40, customers receive a fresh home-cooked dinner for a family of four.
“The Delaware County community has been phenomenal in their support for us and I am so very grateful. I always wanted a reason to get out of waiting tables and this is turning out to be my dream job!” says Palladino.
Palladino, an alumnus of the College of Culinary Arts at Johnson and Wales University, was laid off from Barclay Prime in Rittenhouse Square when the pandemic hit.
The Ridley High 2001 graduate followed up on a suggestion from his wife. Jill Palladino is a 2001 Cardinal O’Hara graduate and assistant principal at Upper Darby High School.
She suggested her husband cook meals for his friends who were stuck at home.
After Jill started posting on social media what meals would be offered, orders poured in.
Palladino partnered with friend Alenrry Iniguez, leasing kitchen space in his neighborhood.
Read more about this successful new business here.
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