For meal-prep & meal delivery businesses
Cook Sunday. Deliver Monday. Sleep in between.
You rent the kitchen by the hour, and customers expect breakfast on the porch. FreshRoutes plans the routes while the last batch cools — cold food, gate codes, and morning windows handled.
Free plan · 100 stops a month · No card required
The Sunday-night problem
You started a food business. You ended up running a courier company.
Every meal-prep owner we talk to has the same second job — routing. Here's what changes when the software takes that shift.
“It's 11 PM on Sunday and I'm still dragging pins around a map.”
Routing stops being a second shift
Bring in the week’s orders from a spreadsheet and press Optimize — every van’s route, planned at once. Do the whole week from one screen, and when it repeats, roll it forward with one click.
“Everything I deliver is perishable. Everything.”
Nothing goes out past the point it's still good
Tell FreshRoutes how long the food keeps, and it won’t build a route that gets there too late. The cold stops stay on the cold van, and the clock resets each time a van reloads at the kitchen.
“My drivers are part-timers with their own cars and their own phones.”
Drivers get a link, not an app
Send a link or hand over a printed QR sheet. The route opens on their phone — no app, no account — with one big Navigate button per stop, a photo at the door, and a heads-up if they try to mark a stop done from too far away.
“Half my Monday is answering ‘where's my box?’”
Customers watch the run themselves
Everyone with a delivery gets a page that shows where their order is and when it’ll land — on the way, three stops away, delivered — with the photo attached. The question answers itself before it’s asked.
“Everyone wants their meals before they leave for work.”
Morning windows FreshRoutes treats as promises
Set a latest drop-off to keep the whole run in the morning, and give the early risers a “by 8:30” time. FreshRoutes puts the commuters first, and the stops that truly can’t slip go earliest.
Shared-kitchen ready
Built around a kitchen you don't own
Your kitchen slot ends and the vans leave — there's no warehouse to fall back on. FreshRoutes plans from that reality.
Your day starts when your kitchen time ends
Set the commissary as your starting point and the exact time the vans pull out. Every arrival time after that follows from when your kitchen slot actually ends.
Small vans, big cook day — reloads included
When one trip won't hold it all, FreshRoutes plans the run back to the kitchen for trip two — and each printed sheet says which trip it is and what to load.
A paper trail for the walk-in
One sheet per van, with numbered stops, COLD tags, delivery windows, and a QR code that opens the same route on the driver's phone.
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Give yourself your evenings back.
Bring in this week's orders, set how long the food keeps, and see Monday's routes before you've wiped down the counters.
No card required.