No food products. Just food.
Nourished is a membership-owned restaurant. Members pay one monthly fee — and every meal is priced at exactly what it costs to make. No restaurant markup. Ever. 100% certified organic. No exception.
It's the markup. A grain bowl that costs us $5 to make sells for $14 down the street — to cover landlord profit, investor returns, and corporate overhead. Nothing about that math has to do with feeding you well.
Nourished replaces the markup with a simple monthly membership. The food, the cooking, the rent, the lights — fully covered, transparently. Members pay the cost. That's the whole model.
Owner pay capped at 10× the highest-paid line cook. Every dollar above that goes back into lower prices, more locations, and farm partnerships.
Every menu price is itemized — food, labor, overhead — visible to members and teams alike. Ask, and we'll show you the spreadsheet.
Every general manager is grown inside the company. We open new locations only when someone is ready to lead one. No exceptions.
Wages above market. Profit-sharing for line teams. A real path to ownership. We treat the kitchen like a career — wherever we open.
100% certified organic, every ingredient. Direct partnerships with regional farms — fair pricing, with the goal of 70%+ regional sourcing per location by Year 3.
A traditional restaurant funds everything from a single price markup. We split it into three honest pieces — so each one is auditable, sustainable, and impossible to inflate.
Rent, utilities, insurance, the team you don't see. 600 members guarantee $60K/month before a single bowl is sold.
Cold-press juice. Sparkling water. Overnight oats. Made in batch when the kitchen is quiet — sold all day. Surplus subsidizes the labor we pay during slower hours.
Every meal carries its own ingredient cost, cook minutes, and overhead share. Priced at exactly that. You see the math on the receipt.
Every member can ask for any line item on any menu. We'll tell you. This is what radical transparency looks like in practice.
| Line item | Cost | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Pasture-raised organic chicken (4oz, 92% yield) | $1.95 | certified organic, no antibiotics |
| Organic quinoa (½ cup cooked) | $0.62 | batch cooked |
| Organic kale, sweet potato, peppers (5oz) | $1.15 | 88% yield, regional |
| Organic tahini-lemon dressing (1.5oz) | $0.38 | made in-house |
| Production labor (6.5 min @ $25.64/hr) | $2.78 | crafted-tier item |
| Allocated overhead | $1.97 | rent · utilities · POS |
| Member at-cost price | $8.85 | vs. $14–16 elsewhere |
Costs reviewed quarterly. When wholesale prices move, prices on the board move with them. Members see why, in writing.
We need 300 founders to fund the buildout. Two membership tiers below — your prepaid year covers your meals at-cost and helps fund construction. Or skip the membership and give a tax-deductible founding gift to the Nourished Foundation.
A founding donation is a tax-deductible gift to the Nourished Foundation — our 501(c)(3) sister organization. You don't get a meal subscription. You get the satisfaction of knowing you helped open something the world needs more of, and a write-off at the end of the year.
Once a month: lease progress, farm conversations, the menu being tested in our home kitchen. No marketing fluff.