Jeni Couch, GiftAMeal account exec.
Restaurant management veteran Jeni Couch joins GiftAMeal as the startups 4th full time employee.
“Jeni brings great restaurant industry experience and comes from one of our partner restaurants, so she knows that perspective, and can help us learn how to craft our value proposition to support restaurants in St. Louis and beyond,” GiftAMeal CEO Andrew Glantz told the 4thEst8.
Couch most recently was the General Manager at the Trainwreck Saloon in Westport, St. Louis.
GiftAMeal is a for-profit marketing company with a socially conscious mission. Through it’s free mobile app users take a photo of their order at a GiftAMeal partner restaurant. For every post to social media, GiftAMeal makes a donation to a local food bank to cover a meal for someone in need. GiftAMeal partners pay a monthly subscription, partly for the marketing aspect of the service and partly to support the food bank effort. Markets include St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City as well as parts of North Carolina and New Hampshire. Chain partners include Lion’s Choice and Andy’s Frozen Custard.
Glanz claims GiftAMeal has 290 restaurant partners and 45,000 app users, providing more than 800,000 meals to those in need. GiftAMeal picked up $100,000 in a non-dilutive follow-on investment from Arch Grants, concurrent with a $400,000 angel round this spring. Since the company got its start in 2014 it has had four seed rounds with the total raised (counting grants) topping $769,000 according to CrunchBase, where investors are identified as Capital Innovators, Skandalaris Center, Arch Grants and private investors.
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