Prefix Dinner Studio -- Bozeman, Montana

A few nights ago, my wife and I headed down to Prefix Dinner Studio in Bozeman, Montana. This is one of those fix and freeze places that allow you to created great meals and freeze them for later. We had our first meal last night and it was amazing. We had a chance to sit and talk with the owners for a bit and they are doing some great things over there. The place looks great and they are already having steady traffic -- even during their first several weeks. We had a small "class" so it only took us about 30-45 minutes to prepare enough meals to last us for two or so weeks -- maybe longer. It was a lot of fun preparing the meals and with the Prefix crew doing the clean up, giving us pointers, and fixing us great meals to eat while we were there, the night was very enjoyable. About the time I decided to post about Prefix, I came across this post from Business Opportunities Weblog. It was a post from Springwise and it was talking about other fix and freeze concepts. It looks like they first posted about this a year ago. I have not even heard about this concept until last week! Though they vary in style, all of the dinner assembly companies offer essentially the same service: customers schedule a session online, picking meals from a monthly menu. The store, a large commercial-grade kitchen, organizes freshly chopped and prepared ingredients in practical stations. Customers move around the store, assembling a meal at each station by scooping ingredients into freezer bags or disposable baking pans. Meals are easily customized to accommodate personal tastes or diets– the customer just adds more or less fresh garlic or ginger, or substitutes pork for beef. Finally, the packaged meals are clearly labeled with cooking instruct Business is booming for a reason: the meal assembly concept offers time-starved consumers (especially working moms) an innovative and convenient way to provide their families with nutritious, tasty, home-cooked meals, with more variety, healthier options and at a lower cost than take-out or frozen supermarket meals. If you have a chance to go to one of these stores, take it. You will have a great time and have great meals with hardly any work. Here is a list of meals that we prepared: 1. Flank Steak with a sort of mango sauce 2. Chicken Cobbler 3. Steak Enchiladas 4. Mojo Chicken 5. Bacon Wrapped Salmon 6. Malaysian Pizza Great concepts and it seems that they are filling a niche that has not been fully tapped yet. ..be bold Tagged: prefix dinner studio, bozema, montana, fix and freeze, dinner assembly