# Dinner Party Services Kitchit Offers a Customized Catered Meal and a Personal Chef at Your Home By Alyson Wyers | Published 2015-03-18 | Lifestyle Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/catered-meal References: [tnooz](http://www.tnooz.com/article/nosh-nations-the-monetization-of-the-sharing-economy-spreads-to-food/) & [kitchit](https://www.kitchit.com/) Catered meal service Kitchit is specifically intended for personal dinner parties. If you want to have a small group of people over for a restaurant-quality meal, this platform is basically a marketplace where you can find a roster of qualified chefs. So far, Kitchit experiences are available in New York City and the Tri-state area, Chicago and Chicagoland, San Francisco, LA and the surrounding areas in both northern and southern California. This service lets you book a dinner party with your friends at your house with a cook you choose. You can explore menus and chat freely with all chefs under consideration to ensure your vision is carried out flawlessly -- from a casual barbecue to a six course tasting menu. The Kitchit Marketplace offers other services as well, like meal prep, private cooking lessons and large event catering. ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 3.0/10 - Popularity: 56% | Activity: 25% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 50% men, 50% women - Primary generations: Millennial, Gen X - Top markets: North America ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Lifestyle](https://www.trendhunter.com/lifestyle) > [Food](https://www.trendhunter.com/food) ## Key Themes ### What's Driving This Trend - **Personal Chef Services:** The trend of booking a personal chef for dinner parties is on the rise, creating an opportunity for chefs to offer customized services that cater to individual preferences. - **Tech-enabled Catering:** The availability of platforms like Kitchit is disrupting the traditional catering industry by providing customers with a personalized and convenient experience, presenting an opportunity for traditional catering companies to adopt technology to enhance their services. - **Customized Meal Prep:** The demand for customized meal prep services, as offered by Kitchit, is growing in popularity as people become more health-conscious and seek convenience in their busy lives, creating an opportunity for businesses to offer personalized meal prep options. ### Who This Affects Most - **Hospitality:** The hospitality industry can leverage the trend of personalized chef services to enhance the customer experience and capture new market segments. - **Food Delivery:** Food delivery companies can explore the trend of customized meal prep services to offer personalized and healthy meal options to customers. - **Event Planning:** Event planning companies can partner with tech-enabled catering services to offer customized catering options to clients, creating a more personalized and memorable experience for attendees. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Fully Catered Dinner Parties](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/pc-kitchen-drop.md) - [Celebrity Chef Meal Kits](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/celebrity-experiences.md) - [AI-Curated Recipe Kits](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/kiti-ai.md) - [Fine Dining Meal Deliveries](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/entre-meal-kit-delivery-service.md) - [Premium Toronto Meal Delivery Services](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/chefdrop.md) - [AI Party Planning Assistants](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/ai-party-planning.md) - [Mindfully Curated Meal Kits](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/gourmet-meal-kit.md) - [Secret Dinner Series](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/la-carte-by-le-creuset.md) - [Bookable Kitchen Pop-Ups](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/kitchenaid-room-to-host.md)