Dinner by Design of Lake Zurich, IL Announce their Anniversary Celebration!

Lake Zurich Dinner by Design announces their Anniversary Celebration Party on Saturday, October 13! It's an Open House from 10:00am - 4:00pm to celebrate their 1 year anniversary with new owner, Mary Locher.

There will be FUN for everyone!
- Free samples of their delicious meals all day
- Free aprons for the first 25 kids
- Free balloons for the kids
- Kitchen demonstrations ongoing
- "Try It" Stations
- Raffles to win prizes from Avalon Salon of Deer Park, The Fresh Market, Kelley Cellars and Caribou Coffee and more
- Fire Truck for the kids from 11am-1pm
- Buy 3 Get 1 Free Take-n-Bake Sale
- Kathy Hart from 101.9 FM "The Mix" to stop by (time to be announced.

At Dinner by Design people can assemble a month’s worth of dinners in two hours or less. People choose their entrees from a monthly menu and then select a time and a day to visit the store. When they arrive, they rotate around refrigerated recipe stations that contain the pre-prepped ingredients, assembling their meals in take-home containers. Dinner by Design staff members are on hand to explain, assist and clean up. Each entrée serves a family of 4-6 at a cost of about $3 per serving. The meals are designed to be frozen for later use by customers; each container is labeled with easy-to-follow cooking instructions.

According to owner Mary Locher, we’re thrilled to be part of the Lake Zurich area and to serve thousands of families. “We get comments regularly about how we’ve made a positive impact on a family’s life and dinner time. It means a great deal to us to be able to make such a difference in people’s lives here,” said Mary Locher.

Industry observers predict the concept of meal prep outside the home is becoming very popular and is at the same stage that trendy coffee chains were at 15 years ago. The Business Times Daily called Dinner by Design “one of the hottest new retail franchise sensations sweeping the nation,” and Entrepreneur Magazine named the company and this market segment one of the “Hot 29 Businesses to Start in 2006.”