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Super Suppers

Super Suppers is a US food preparation franchise operation based in Fort Worth, Texas. It specializes in providing space for families to prepare meals ahead of time for freezing and cooking at home. Franchises exist in 38 US states.

The concept of Super Suppers is to give busy families the opportunity to prepare home-cooked meals ahead of time. Each month a twelve-item menu is made available throughout the chain. Clients may choose public or private session to prepare these meals, with recipes and all required ingredients provided. The standard session provides all twelve meals from that month's menu for around US$200. Each meal serves six, and the firm's official website suggests a typical cost of US$3 to $3.50 per serving.

The website further describes its founder Judie Byrd as having "created Super Suppers to meet the demanding needs of busy parents who want to create quality family time around the dinner table - but don't have the extra time and energy to pull it off." Byrd has authored several family-meal-oriented cookbooks.

Stores also offer alternatives including grab-and-go of pre-assembled meal preparations, call-ahead-curbside pickup of store-assembled meal preps, and a fundraising-sales program.

A Super Suppers franchise in Cumming, Georgia, was profiled by the Food Network show Recipe for Success.

Controversy

A Forbes Magazine article dated March 8, 2008, describing Super Suppers as the second-largest franchisor in the meal assembly franchise business with 165 units, traced the industry's rapid expansion followed by a precipitous rate of store closings ("...large chains (with more than 100 stores) have shuttered 11% of their stores...") and accompanying franchisee disappointment.

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At Home Dinners, a similar company offering, meal assembly and assembled entree's per customer's likes and dislikes. Fresh ingredients and homemade sauces are their specialty. Based in Plano and Frisco, Texas.

Dinner My Way, same concept, but customers can select which meals you want, instead of all the menu items. Minimum of 3 meals that serve 4-6 people.

Dinners Ready, another meal assembly kitchen with locations throughout the United States.

Dream Dinners, the originator of the meal assembly franchise concept.

Entrée Vous. A meal assembly kitchen that uses fresh herbs, chops fresh vegetables and offers 14 family sized entrees every month.

Entrees Made Easy, a meal assembly kitchen that utilizes a full-commercial kitchen to make everything in the store from scratch rather than a from a can. Also a franchise with local ownership.