Down your block, someone is cooking the dish her grandmother taught her. Her kitchen is licensed. Her recipe is 60 years old. She'd love to cook for you this Sunday.
Most food apps optimize for speed and scale. We optimize for community. Every decision β how we price, who we onboard, how we pay cooks β comes back to four values.
Food travels less than two miles. The cook is your neighbor. You pick up, say hi, and see the hands that made your meal.
No black-box algorithms pushing ghost kitchens. Every cook has a face, a story, and a home address. You follow them like friends.
Eritrean injera. Oaxacan mole. Vietnamese pho. Sicilian arancini. Every cuisine, cooked by someone who learned it from family.
Meals start at $8. No surge pricing. No hidden fees. Cooks keep 85% β the highest rate in food delivery.
Every cook on Mehko is a licensed home kitchen operator with a real story. These are a few of them.
Open the app, see every licensed home cook within walking distance. Filter by cuisine, mood, or what's cooking tonight.
Tap the dish. Pay in the app. Get a pickup time. Every meal is cooked fresh that day β no reheated freezer food.
Walk or drive five minutes. Say hi to the cook. Leave with a hot meal and β usually β a new friend.
California's MEHKO law lets you legally sell food from your home kitchen. Mehko walks you through every step β from the food safety certification to the pre-filled county application.
MEHKO is legal statewide, but counties turn it on one by one. We launch where home cooks are already licensed and neighbors are hungry.
Maria's tamales are the first real food I've had since moving to California. Now I text her every Sunday.
I was cooking for my family anyway. Mehko helped me get licensed and now I'm making $1,800 a week from the same kitchen.
I've lived on this street for eleven years and never met the Vietnamese family two doors down. Now I have pho every Tuesday with Hoa.