Introducing the new Member Kitchens — built for the next era of food creators

Five years ago, Liam set out to help recipe creators, coaches, and nutritionists turn followers into real businesses. Since then, I have shipped constant improvements — but the world moved faster: members expect apps that feel personal, social, and seamless on every device, and creators need one place to run content, community, programs, and commerce.

Today I'm announcing the new Member Kitchens platform — a full leap forward from where we started. It’s the same mission you trust, reimagined as a modern, white-label subscription product your members will love to open every day.

A platform built around your brand (not ours)

• White-label, multi-tenant architecture — Each creator’s space is isolated, configurable, and branded.

• Deep theming & design control — Colors, typography, and layout behavior tuned to your visual identity.

• Tenant personality — Creator name, photo, tagline, bio, and social presence surfaced consistently across the app (including profile sheet from content).

• Flexible navigation & information architecture — Hierarchical menus and custom pages so your app matches how you teach and sell.

• International-ready UX — Translation system for user-facing strings so you can grow across languages.

• App Station (admin) — Central hub for content, settings, templates, features, integrations, and more — with contextual help and a layout built for serious admin work.

Content that lives in one library — and works everywhere

All major content types share a unified content model: tags, media, publishing, analytics (views/favorites), related content, and optional “Why I made this” stories.

Supported content types include:

Storytelling & connection (not just another recipe app)

• Content stories — Optional narrative on each item (“why this exists”), with guided prompts in the editor.

• Feed-style blog experience — Posts in a social-style feed with creator identity, reactions, comments, relative time, and related-content links.

• Unified emoji reactions — Shared configuration for announcements and blog-style engagement.

• Collections — Curated groups with rich descriptions (not just flat categories).

• Comments & member engagement — Conversation around the content that drives retention.

• Favorites & personal notes — Members can save what matters and annotate for themselves.

Recipes & meal planning — depth that serious food businesses need

Recipes

• Ingredient groups, step groups, prep-ahead groups — organized, draggable workflows in admin.

• Component recipes (e.g. sauce as its own recipe linked into a main dish).

• Swaps — Suggest alternate recipes in meal-plan contexts.

• Nutrition with rich detail; meal plans can aggregate nutrition by day.

• Media (images/video/embeds), tools, dietary signals, versioning — built for professional content teams.

Meal plans

• Configurable weekly (and beyond) layouts; mix meals, prep blocks, and portions.

• Daily nutrition summaries tied to what’s on each day.

• Shopping lists tied to what you’ve planned.

Programs & education — challenges and full courses

• Challenges — Start/end dates, duration, enrollment; great for resets and cohort-style energy.

• Courses — Modules and lessons pointing at real content you already created; optional strict order, enrollment, and certificates when you want a “graduation” moment.

Pages, blocks, and layouts — your app, your structure

• Page builder — Custom pages built from blocks (heroes, grids, showcases, FAQs, CTAs, marketing sections, and more).

• Drag-and-drop block ordering and rich per-block configuration.

• Detail page templates — Control how recipe, meal plan, blog, and other detail experiences render.

• Sample content & templates — Sensible defaults for new tenants; tier-aware capabilities (e.g. how many custom pages/layouts) for different growth stages.

• SEO & structured data options where documented (e.g. tenant-level controls).

Commerce & growth — meet members where they buy

• Shopify integration (on supported plans) — Connect Storefront API, sync products, show them in grids and showcases, quick-view, Shop Now out to Shopify checkout.

• Integrations ecosystem — Email, analytics, and commerce hooks (e.g. lifecycle and monetization tools) configurable from the admin experience.

Member experience — mobile-first, session-aware, yours

• Responsive layouts, safe-area and sheet patterns for modern phones.

• Navigation history & breadcrumbs — So deep content doesn’t feel lost.

• Scroll restoration — Smoother return visits on long content.

• Accessibility-minded building blocks — Structure your screenshots to show focus states, labels, and readable contrast.

Why this moment matters

The original Member Kitchens proved that creators deserve ownership of the relationship with their audience. Over five years, we learned what works in the wild — and we poured that into a new foundation: modular, configurable, and ready for the next five years of features without fighting the architecture.

This isn’t a fresh coat of paint. It’s the platform we always wanted you to have — so you can compete with generic apps and fragmented tools with one branded home for recipes, plans, education, story, and (when you need it) commerce.