Chef Dane's Meal Preparation Opens in Needham.

Store Offers New Way for Families to Bring Dinner Back to the Table

NEEDHAM, Mass. -- You just got home from work, your son has baseball practice, your daughter has a piano recital and everyone is hungry. Is it another night of ordering take-out? Wouldn't it be nice to know that dinner has been taken care of in advance and your family can sit down to enjoy a healthy, quality meal?

Chef Dane's is proud to announce that it is bringing dinner back to the table with the opening of its Needham store at 1299 Highland Avenue.

The concept is simple:

* Chef Dane's develops a monthly menu based on decades of Chef Dane Mechlin's experience as an award-winning personal chef and resort owner

* Chef Dane's does all the food shopping and preparation in its own onsite kitchen, including sauteing and blanching fresh vegetables and creating sauces from real ingredients - not powdered or canned substitutes

* Chef Dane's welcomes customers for two-hour sessions during which they can relax, enjoy some good music and rotate from station to station assembling their meals - everything from Cedar Plank Baked Dijon Maple Dill Salmon to Individual Beef Wellingtons - in the provided baking pans or freezer bags.

* And last but certainly not least, customers can leave the clutter behind and bring dinner home: the store's kitchen is their kitchen, but the mess is all Chef Dane's to clean.

"We are thrilled to bring Chef Dane's high quality meal prep services to the Boston area with the opening of our Needham store,"said James Fici, Manager at Chef Dane's Needham. "Families have steadily moved away from quality time around quality dinners, and we know how important it is to bring that part of life back. By doing most of the work ourselves, we give parents the opportunity to put together fresh, healthy, gourmet meals and have fun doing it."

Chef Dane's elevates the meal preparation trend that is sweeping the nation by not only using the freshest ingredients for a proven gourmet menu, but by raising the standards with its onsite kitchen as well. All this and savings too - of time, money and family frustration!

* Each entree serves 4-6 adults, breaking down to an average cost of $4-$7 per serving.

* Chef Dane's saves customers 20-24 hours a month, taking into account meal planning, grocery shopping, preparation and cleanup time.

* It's easy to customize meals to your family's likes and dislikes. Customers are encouraged to make their meals the way their families like to eat them.

Chef Dane's welcomes fundraising organizations, new moms' groups, book clubs, corporate team building events, and any other group that would like to book a session. Group coordinators receive a free entree for every person that signs up when they host a 'Meet the Chef' session. Gift certificates are also available for any occasion. Customers can visit www.chefdanesneedham.com to sign up for a session.

About Chef Dane's

Chef Dane's is a franchise that was founded on the idea that the national "meal preparation" trend was only the beginning of a new way of bringing family dinners back to the table. With stores in California and Massachusetts and more planned across the country, Chef Dane's is focused on fresh, quality ingredients and making it easy for our customers to put gourmet meals together for their families. We work off a menu that was born from decades of Chef Dane Mechlin's experience: American Personal Chef Society's (APCS) 2003 Chef of the Year, current President of APCS, and former owner/head chef at five star resorts in destinations such as Cabo San Lucas and Aspen. Having recipes created by such an accomplished professional chef and working in our own onsite kitchen means we can deliver high quality food and the widest menu selection, while our customers do even less work themselves.