Chef and restaurateur Shane Delia’s Providoor was a lifeline for a lot of hospitality companies throughout one of many largest obstacles the trade has ever confronted.
The restaurant-to-your-door idea gave individuals a small sense of normalcy in the course of the pandemic, however the enterprise collapsed in April this 12 months, with Delia confirming it had been “formally positioned into liquidation” after lower than three years in operation.
Unused reward playing cards have been valued at a staggering $4.4 million, with liquidators RSM Australia Companions stating there was “inadequate cash to pay a dividend to collectors or present refunds to clients, together with reward card holders”.
However Providoor has been given a brand new lease of life by investor Sam Benjamin (Seventh Road Ventures), who acquired the enterprise in April and re-launched it right this moment.
Whereas the unique Providoor mannequin noticed eating places put together and cook dinner meals that have been delivered to clients, the present model is break up into two ideas: Providoor Native and Providoor Frozen.
Clients can now place centralised orders for dishes designed by former MasterChef Australia judges Matt Preston, George Calombaris, and Gary Mehigan in addition to My Kitchen Guidelines‘ Manu Fiedel and chef Anna Polyviou, with extra collaborators but to be introduced.
Benjamin says the brand new Providoor has “labored with well-known cooks and main meals technologists to disrupt” the established order, with the enterprise creating “processes that enable us to arrange, retailer, and end restaurant-quality meals in a means that has by no means been performed earlier than.”
The meals are ready in Providoor kitchens below the Kaspa banner positioned throughout Sydney, with extra places set to open in Melbourne and Brisbane sooner or later.
“It’s an absolute game-changer to have this any cooks and personalised menus below one banner,” says Benjamin.
Nevertheless, it appears the problem of unused reward playing cards remains to be up within the air, with Good Meals reporting Benjamin had “invited voucher holders to get in contact”.
“In due time, we’ll perceive the way to finest serve all people,” he advised Good Meals. “We’ll discover a method to make it proper.”
Orders will go stay on the platform later right this moment, with launch dishes together with a mushroom burger by Preston, coq au vin by Fiedel, and a white chocolate cheesecake with strawberry basil salad by Polvyiou.
Providoor Native may also be accessible on Uber Eats from 24 October, with frozen orders positioned by noon delivered in Sydney the next day. Orders positioned in Melbourne and Brisbane will probably be delivered twice per week and require a three-day lead time.
