Based on providing healthy, delicious food
from all corners of the globe, Kiwi Kitchen deliver gourmet
meals and provide catering services within Metropolitan Tokyo.
Kiwi Kitchen originated in 1996 following co-owner
Vanessa Bell's frustration at the scarcity of places to buy
healthy, tasty lunches while working in central Tokyo. Selling
baskets of home-made food around offices of foreign companies
soon progressed into a successful and thriving business venture
for partners Vanessa Bell and Kylie Hunn.
With perseverance and sheer determination,
the pair waded through the stumbling blocks of establishing
a business in a foreign country to eventually secure suitable
premises, a license, and change of visa status. Business was
soon under way with two staff running the kitchen and another
two delivering to central Tokyo businesses.
Kiwi Kitchen now employs 19 staff - 7 in the
kitchen and 12 handling sales. Since their early beginnings,
Kiwi Kitchen's range of services has considerably expanded beyond
lunch deliveries. It now provides
catering services for international businesses and schools,
office functions and meetings, cocktail parties, and production
companies needing food delivered on-site. In addition, they
offer a weekly gourmet home
pack meal service.