Happy Holidays from Let’s Dish!

December 25, 2008 – 9:19 am
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December 25th.  Whatever you are celebrating this day or this season, we hope you are enjoying some downtime with friends and family.

Our stores are closed today (although, pssst, you can still buy gift cards online in case you forgot someone!) so the 250+ employees of Let’s Dish! can spend the day with their loved ones.  After shopping, chopping, prepping and cleaning all year long, here’s hoping they get some well-deserved pampering from people close to them.

And to our customers, many thanks for staying with us through a challenging 2008.  With 4+ years under our belts, we’ve made many wonderful friends.  We love seeing you every month, and are proud of the important role you allow us to play in your busy lives.

As for the future, we’ll keep working a little harder… to make your lives a little easier.  Thanks to you — employees and customers — our business is strong.  As a company, and as a country, we’re not out of the woods yet.   But as long as we keep getting notes like this one we know we’ll be OK:

“I was very impressed with the meals and the staff at ‘Let’s Dish’.  I do not like to cook, but ‘Let’s Dish’ provides a fun atmosphere in which to make healthy meals for my family.  It is also more economical than going to the grocery store.    I will definitely visit ‘Let’s Dish’ once a month.” - Ellen S, first-time disher, Fairfax VA.

We look forward to continuing to serve Ellen and all the other dishers out there.  Just not today.  Today we’re with our families.

Wishing you all the best,

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Stuff Their Stockings with Salmon (figuratively!)

December 19, 2008 – 3:23 pm
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Ceramic toothpick display case from the Mesozoic era?  So 2007.   This year, givers and receivers alike are thinking about practical gifts.  Gifts that don’t require a schlep to the mall.  Gifts you know they’ll use.  Gifts that reflect what’s important to us - healthy living, time with family, spending our money responsibly.

Enter Let’s Dish!

We’ve got three great gifts they’ll love– and you hardly lift a finger

  • Gift Cards  Available in amounts from $5 (for a flatbread pizza!) to $500 (lots of flatbread pizza… or other meals of their choice).  Order online by clicking here and you can even print from your own computer.  Presto Gifto!!
  • DishDelivery Go ahead, place a DishDelivery order for them.  Print out our menu (or grab a copy from our store) and place it in their stocking.  Watch happiness ensure.
  • DinnerDirect Subscription Packages Who wouldn’t adore getting a monthly delivery of wholesome meals from Let’s Dish sign them up for DinnerDirect and they’ll get a delicious reminder of your love, month after month.

Whatever gift you choose, you’ll know they’ll be getting the wholesome, delicious, convenience of Let’s Dish! Way, way better than a ceramic toothpick holder from just about any era.

Best wishes, everyone, for a happy holiday, and a prosperous New Year.

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Fundrasing - It’s Easy and Fun With Let’s Dish!

December 4, 2008 – 1:45 pm
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Fundraising with Let’s Dish! 

Raise money for your organization and put delicious, healthy meals on your dinner table at the same time. 

Two Ways to Raise

Let’s Dish! offers two great ways for your non-profit organization to raise money.  Both options allow your organization members to make great-tasting, homemade meals for their families while raising money for the group. If you are interested in hosting a fundraiser with us, simply download this brochure and fill out the application form on the back, then bring it to your nearest Let’s Dish! location or email it to fundraisers@letsdish.net. We’ll help you get everything set up so you can start dishing dinners and raising money!

   Fundraising Private Party 

  • Fill out the fundraising application (page 2) and submit to Let’s Dish!
  • We will coordinate with you to choose a date and time for your fundraising party
  • We will give you a special promotion code for party invitees to use when signing up for your party
  • You and your invitees have the store to yourselves for your  party and everyone dishes!
  • Fundraising party requires a minimum of 10 orders
  • Let’s Dish! donates 10% of each order back to your organization

   Ongoing Fundraiser 

  • Fill out the fundraising application (page 2) and submit to Let’s Dish!
  • We will coordinate and establish a time frame for your fundraiser to be held (minimum of 1 week; maximum of 3 months)
  • A fundraising code and customized electronic flier is created for you to distribute to your organization members
  • Members of your organization must enter the designated promotional code when placing their Let’s Dish! orders on www.letsdish.com
  • Promotional code may be used an unlimited amount of times during the fundraiser time frame
  • Let’s Dish! donates 10% of all sales associated with the promotional code to your organization

Why Raising Money With Let’s Dish! Makes Lots of Sense

  • 10% of sales from fundraisers go back to your  organization
  • Everyone who participates also benefits from having a freezer full of convenient Let’s Dish! meals
  • Dishing as a group is a fun and unique experience where group members can get to know each other and mingle
  • Let’s Dish! always provides great snacks and desserts for sampling
  • If you’re already a disher, a Let’s Dish! fundraiser is a great way to multi-task—get your month’s dishing done and raise funds for your group at the same time!
  • It’s easy to set up!

                                                                                                                              

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Respect Your Elders (And help them eat well)!

December 1, 2008 – 7:30 pm
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Most of us owe a whole lot to our parents and grandparents.  They raised us and provided for us and so sometimes it’s nice to give back.  We’ve realized that Let’s Dish! can help with that.

Since we opened in 2004, we’ve had a loyal following of seniors who truly adore our product.  They typically split (or use the new HALVES option) because they are usually feeding just 1-2 people.   Many prefer to dish themselves because it’s a fun and social outing.   It makes their lives easier by simplifying meal time, saving money, and limiting necessary trips to the grocery store.

When we launched DishDelivery, things got  more interesting.  A handful of our customers were having our meals shipped to their parents or grandparents, especially if they lived a bit farther away (we’re able to ship our meals along the eastern seaboard as far as Hartford, CT and Albany NY in the north and Raleigh, NC in the south).  We saw spikes in this around holidays.  Sometimes it was just a nice gift; other times, the recipient had lost some mobility for one reason or another and this was a big help.

My wife and jumped on this trend.  For a few years, we had been bringing our food with us when we visited relatives.  Now, with delivery, we started shipping.  With the help of both sets of our parents, we’ve been sending meals to each of our grandparents, who range in age from late 70’s to late 80’s (and still looking great, I might add!).  We do it fairly regularly and it’s really a nice feeling to know they are eating healthy food and don’t have to trouble themselves much with grocery shopping or complicated meal prep.

So to all the grandmas and grandpas and moms and dads and aunts and uncles out there to whom we owe so much– thanks, and enjoy the meals!

 

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The Perfect Gift

November 25, 2008 – 8:24 am
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‘Tis the perfect season to be thinking about Let’s Dish! Gift Cards.  Here are my six favorite reasons why:

  • Let’s Dish! meals are wholesome, delicious and practical.  So a gift from Let’s Dish! says you really care about them.
  • Your friends and family-members have enough tie racks and ceramic ducks already!  Give them something they’ll actually use.
  • Gift Cards are good for meals, sides, desserts, etc.  They’re good for in-store sessions, Dish-n-Dash, DishDelivery and even work for a quick trip to our Ready Made case.
  • Buy a Gift Card in-store and you’ll get an attractive card-holder absolutely free (plus you may be eligible for other free - and delicious - in store incentives!)
  • Gift Cards come in any denomination. Fifteen to twenty-five dollars makes a great gift for the letter-carrier, babysitter, soccer coach, etc.  Your mother-in-law?  Maybe better get her a whole session! 
  • Need something last minute?  Don’t rush to the mall!  Don’t pay for expedited shipping.  Gift Certificates print right from your computer and are valid immediately.  Phew! … just in time :)

Any way you slice it, our Gift Cards (and Gift Certificates) make a ton of sense.  Buy one today!

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