Case Study · E-commerce · Personal Chef

Meals by Emily

One chef, four revenue streams, one storefront — weekly in-home meal prep, private-chef events, custom meal plans, and a protein bakery, all sold through a single site that runs while she cooks.

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The Meals by Emily homepage
The outcome

What one storefront carries for a one-chef business.

+$80k
Monthly revenue
flowing through the site
15
Meals per weekly prep
scratch-made, in-home
4
Revenue streams
prep · chef · plans · bakery
24/7
Bakery ordering
Whey Better Bakery shop
The brief

Emily runs a personal-chef business in Tampa Bay with a shape no storefront template understands: weekly meal prep cooked in the client's own kitchen, private-chef events booked weeks out, custom meal plans sold as consultations, and a protein bakery shipping cookie dough bites and "Swole Bagels" to anyone. Four different offers, four different buying rhythms, one person doing all the cooking.

The site's job is to be the business's front of house while she's elbow-deep in someone's kitchen — qualify meal-prep leads, take event inquiries with enough lead time, sell the bakery around the clock, and give existing clients a login of their own. It carries +$80k a month in revenue for a team of exactly one chef.

What we owned
Brand-forward design around real food photography
WooCommerce storefront for the Whey Better Bakery
Service pages for each revenue stream
Client login area for active meal-prep clients
Event-inquiry flow with lead-time expectations built in
Newsletter capture for weekly recipes
The friction
  • Four offers with different price points, rhythms, and buyers — one coherent site.
  • Physical bakery products and in-person services sharing a single checkout brain.
  • Communicating scratch-cooking quality without a single stock photo.
  • Protecting a solo chef's calendar: events need 3+ weeks of lead time, and the site has to say so.
How we moved it
  • A service architecture that gives each revenue stream its own page and its own call-to-action — meal prep starts a conversation, the bakery checks out instantly.
  • WooCommerce handles the bakery's physical products while service pages route to consultations and bookings — commerce where it fits, conversation where it doesn't.
  • Food photography from her actual kitchen carries the design; the copy leads with "no seed oils, no shortcuts" scratch-cooking values.
  • Expectation-setting baked into the flows: 3+ week event lead times and consultation-first meal plans keep the calendar workable.
Three screens, four businesses

The homepage that introduces all four offers, the meal-prep page that starts the highest-value conversations, and the events flow that books her weekends — captured from the live site.

Meals by Emily homepage — personalized meal prep, made with love
Weekly meal prep service page — 15 scratch-made meals in your Tampa Bay home
Weekly meal prep01
Meals by Emily events page — private chef and event appearances
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See it in the wild

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