Dream Dinners is a US food preparation franchise operation based in Snohomish, Washington. It specializes in providing space to prepare meals ahead of time for freezing and cooking at home. There are currently 130 locations in 30 states in the United States. The company was founded by Stephanie Allen and Tina Kuna and was the first in the category of "Meal Assembly" franchises. The concept of Dream Dinners is to give busy families the opportunity to prepare home-cooked meals ahead of time. Each month a seventeen-item menu is made available throughout the chain. The meals are purchased by servings. A medium size meal is (3) servings while a large size meal is (6) servings. Customers are offered either public or private session to prepare these meals, and the store provides recipes and all required ingredients. A standard session provides all seventeen meals from that month's menu, and the firm's official website suggests a cost of "approximately $240, or under $3.50 per serving". Side dishes and salads for each meal are offered but not included in the base price. The more servings a customer orders in a single session, the lower the per-serving cost. Individual franchise locations may offer additional further discounts. Stores further offer a brochure describing a "self catering" service for parties.
