Porch pickup
Customers reserve ahead and follow your pickup instructions.
For home cooks and small kitchens
Turn homemade food into local preorders.
Post baked goods, meal prep, family trays, and comfort meals for scheduled local pickup. Customers reserve ahead, and you choose when pickup happens.
Early access program now openLocal pickup only
Why cooks choose KCM
Start selling for free
List your kitchen for free. You set your own prices, keep the full listed price you set, and customers pay the platform service fee at checkout.
- No seller fees
- Free to join
- No monthly subscriptions
- You set your own prices
- You keep the full listed price you set
- Customers pay the platform service fee
Who this is for
If you cook, bake, or prep meals, you may be ready to start.
Home bakers
Cookies, breads, cakes, rolls, and small batch sweets.
Meal prep cooks
Weekly trays, lunches, dinners, and ready-to-heat meals.
Family-tray cooks
Comfort meals, holiday trays, and group dinners.
Farmers market vendors
Reserve online and pick up at your booth or event table.
Church or shared-kitchen cooks
Use a community, commissary, or partner kitchen path.
Small food businesses
Give repeat customers one place to find your pickup food.
How it works
From kitchen setup to first pickup
Kitchen pages and listings may be reviewed before going public so the marketplace stays clear, local, and trustworthy.
Create account
Start with your Kitchen Counter-Measures account.
Set up kitchen
Add your kitchen name, pickup area, and food plans.
Review rules
Check what applies to your menu and prep setting.
Post a meal
Set price, quantity, cutoff, and pickup window.
Receive orders
Customers reserve ahead so you can plan prep.
Coordinate pickup
Share timing, notes, and handoff details.
Pickup styles
Choose how pickup works
Use the pickup style that fits your food, prep space, and customers.
Curbside handoff
Set a short pickup window and meet customers outside.
Public meetup
Coordinate pickup at a park, lot, pop-up, or public spot.
Farmers market booth
Let customers reserve online and pick up from your booth.
Community kitchen
Use a church, community, licensed, or shared-use kitchen.
Shared kitchen
Use a partner prep space for larger runs or public pickups.
What can I sell?
Examples of local pickup foods
Examples only. Actual allowed foods depend on your location, prep setting, and food rules.
Cookies
Boxes and batches
Cinnamon rolls
Weekend pickup runs
Meal prep
Weekly prepared meals
Family dinners
Dinner trays and comfort food
Bread
Loaves and baked goods
Market food
Pickup at booths and events
Inside the platform
Inside your kitchen dashboard
Post a meal
Create listings in minutes with pricing, quantities, pickup windows, and meal details.
Kitchen dashboard
Track orders, customer messages, pickup schedules, listings, and payouts from one dashboard.
Storefront
Customers see your specialties, pickup style, availability, and active listings.
Pickup options
Choose porch pickup, curbside handoff, or public meetup locations.
Ready to start?
Set up your storefront
Start with a kitchen name, pickup area, and the foods you want to offer. You can finish the rest later.
Start your kitchenCook questions
Questions cooks often ask
Payments & payouts
Customers pay when they reserve a meal. You choose the listed meal price, customers see applicable checkout fees before paying, and payouts go to your connected payout account.
Learn about payoutsWhat happens next?
Create an account, complete the cook application, review food and pickup details, then wait for approval before your kitchen goes public.
See the cook processHow customers find you
Customers can discover meals through Browse, pickup areas, categories, kitchen profiles, and direct links shared by cooks.
See how discovery worksFood laws & pickup safety
Food rules vary by location and menu. Pickup guidance explains address privacy, public meetups, and safer handoff expectations.
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